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     Johannes Georg Schafer was born on 10 January 1779 at Dettenhofen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Anna Maria Gaugigl, daughter of Marcello Gaugigl.¹

     Josef Schafer was born on 28 December 1843 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He married Anna Schmid on 21 February 1881.¹

     Josef Schafer was a Victualenhandler (feed and grain merchant.)¹ He and Anna had more children.²
     One of the relatives of Andreas had a son, Sigmund Mayer who was a baker and a problem.
The man's father asked Max Schafer to sponsor him in the US. Max took him in and paid his debts up to a point. Some time in the 1920's, Max had enough and told the baker to get out. If he stayed in the US, it is not known. He was probably an alchoholic and it is not known where he went with his wife Matilda.
     This was the only Shafer who came to the US that cannot be traced in that generation. It is possible that George Shafer, b. 1801 had siblings that did not stay in Germany - or
Johannes Georg, his father, but there is no family tradition that anyone came to the US before Max in 1910.
(Information from the prayerbook of Anton Kneissl, written by his granddaughter Ottilie Schafer Kneissl,
and corroborated in SOB records by her granddaughter Annemarie Kneissl Brandner.)

     Josef Schafer was born on 1 July 1872 at Sandizell, Bavaria, Germany.¹

     Josef Schafer was a "Handelsman" (merchant.)¹

     Ludwig Schafer was born on 14 December 1845 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹

     He lived in Schrobenhausen; his granddaughter Madeline Schafer came to the US in the 1920's and worked as a nanny in NY for many years, eventually married Willie Uhlig when they were older, and in the 60's
returned to Germany to live - she died in c. 1992; he before 1983. (NOTE: Madeline is also listed as a granddaughter of Josef and Anna Schmidt!)¹

     Madeline Schafer was born on 4 July 1905 at Schrobenhausen.¹ She died on 31 May 1990 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹

     Madeline was one of about 6 sisters. She came to the US in the 1920's under the sponsorship of her cousin Max Schafer, and worked as a nanny on Long Island for many years. When she was older, she married Willie Uhlig, and afte he retired, they moved back to Schrobenhausen in a nice apartment on an upper floor of a bank building which stood on the site of a former Schafer home. Wille died before she did, and at least one sister, Rosa Droessler survived Madeline.¹

     Mary (Maria) Schafer was born on 16 February 1782.¹ She married Jacob Hildebrand, son of John Hildebrand and Margaret Gardner.¹ Mary (Maria) Schafer died on 29 October 1844 at East Berlin, PA.¹ She was buried in Union Cemetery in East Berlin.¹

     Name also spelled Scheaffer, Scheafer.¹ Married name: Hildebrand.

     Max Schafer was born in 1888 at Germany.^1,2 He married Louise Litty circa 1914 (New York, NY.)¹ Max Schafer died in 1948.¹

     The 1920 census lists Max Schafer and Louise at 878 Broadway at Brooklyn, NY, with their children Bertha and Andrew, and two boarders.^1,2
     Max was the first member of the family to come to the U.S. He was the fifth of six living children of Andreas Schafer, Seilermeister (Ropemaker) of Schrobenhausen, Bavaria and his wife Anna Kneissl.
     By 1910, Max had done his compulsory military service in the German army, and rather than go to FFB to be apprenticed as a butcher to his brother in law, my grandfather Johann Kneissl, he took his severance pay and went to Bremen, spent 5 pfennig to take the ferry to Bremerhaven and got a job aboard a ship, supposedly set to travel around the world.
     He loved to tell the story that it cost him 5 cents to come to the U.S. He also liked to tell his great nieces and nephews that his job aboard ship was washing dishes, and that he was so seasick he just tossed the dishes out of the porthole! The other famiily story told was that when his ship landed in New York (unscheduled, because of an illness on board) he was standing on deck and a man called up from the dock in German, asking if a certain man was on board. Max said no, but what did he want with him. The answer was that he had a job for him. Max said he'd take it, and walked off the ship to begin working in the owner's delicatessen - no detours by way of Ellis Island for him!
     He met and and by 1914 had married Louise Litty who had followed (or preceded) her sister Carrie to the U.S. from Gebweiler in Alsace Lorraine. By the time WWI began, Max owned his own delicatessen in rented quarters at 878 Broadway in Brooklyn and Louise had given birth (caesarian) to a daughter Bertha and son Andrew. This, plus the fact that in 1917 he took advantage of the opportunity to become a US citizen rather than remain an enemy alien, exempted him from military service.
     His decision not to return and become his brother in law's apprentice was fortunate, for of all the men in the crack German regiment that he had served with before coming to the U.S., only 3 survived WWI.

In 1921 Max returned to Germany to visit his family, and a photograph was taken of him with his mother and siblings- he was the only one of his brothers who had not been in the German army during WWI.
He sponsored the entrance of Tony Shafer of Aichach, the son of his oldest brother Andreas, to the U.S. that year, and in 1922 on a return visit to Germany, he sponsored Tony's friend George Hofstetter from Aichach and his niece Anna Kneissl of Fuerstenfeldbruck(my parents.) Later came Tony's brother Andrew Shafer, Anna's brothers Hans and Tony Kneissl and others. Altogether he sponsored about 16, mostly relatives, although several went back to Germany for family reasons, or after saving some money.
By the time George Hofstetter and Anna Kneissl married in Brooklyn in 1927, Max had sold his delicatessen business (before age 40!) and retired. It was said his retirement income came from holding mortgages and other investments- they must have been stocks that were not wiped out in the crash of 1929 as he and Louise and the children always lived comfortably and travelled to Germany and throughout the U.S., although at one point during the Depression he was said to have worried that he might have to go back to work.
Max (who inherited the Schafer trait of graying early) and diminutive Louise were the family center of those who had immigrated - nieces, nephews, removed cousins and friends. Christmas was always celebrated at the home in Jamaica, Queens they had purchased after retirement. Nieces (Martha Gayman- Louise's niece) and grand-nieces (Louisa Hofstetter and later her sister Ellie) spent a few weeks with them every summer,learning to cross stitch, cleaning and dusting in the house and helping in the large vegetable garden Max planted in the empty lot next door, going to Jones Beach and Jamaica Bay swimming, singing songs in French and German with Louise while she washed the dishes and the girls dried. They were more like grandparents than those who lived in far off Germany. Louise was Louisa's godmother as well.
Daughter Bertha, 13 years older than Louisa and her mother Anna's first cousin, was a secretary to Mr. Meier, a central American with an import export business, and she was always coming home to Jamaica with exotic items from his office, including raw sugar cane which tasted sweet when chewed and leather handbags with Aztec symbols.
Their son Andrew George, two years younger, studied at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute to become a Civil Engineer and before getting a job with the Tennessee Valley Authority was always about the house with his many friends and his dog Laddie. When WWII approached, Andrew requested service in the Pacific- he did not wish to fight his German cousins whom he had come to know on visits to Germany. Andrew became an officer in the SeaBees - the civil engineering branch of the Navy that built airstrips on many of the Pacific islands involved in the war against Japan.
Old world standards applied in education with the Shafers. Andrew went to college, Bertha to secretarial school. Max asked her parents why they would send a girl to college when Louisa was the first in her family to attend.
After a long and contented retirement, Max died suddenly of a stroke in his home in 1948.
In 1949 Bertha married Franz Ritz, a roofer from New Rochelle. Soon after, the house in Jamaica was sold and Louise moved into her daughter's home in New Rochelle. Bertha and Franz had two daughters, Marilyn and Joan.
Andrew had been married by 1941 to Marie, whom he'd met while working in West Virginia. He had rejoined the TVA after the war upon leaving the Navy and lived in Nashville, Tenn. He and Marie loved golf. A smoker, he died of cancer in 1970 after recovering from a heart attack.
By 1973, Bertha who was widowed in 1858 when Franz died of a heart attack while shovelling snow, had moved to Nashville. Her daughter Joan attended Vanderbilt University there, and Bertha brought her mother Louise with her. Still not gray, Louise died in Nashville on 16 Feb 1973 at 85 and was buried in New Rochelle, N.Y.¹

     Ottilie Schafer was born on 26 November 1876 at Schwabmuenchen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ She married Johann Baptist Kneissl, son of Xavier Kneissl and Anna Maria Schrem(s), on 26 July 1896 (Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, G.)¹ Ottilie Schafer died on 28 December 1960 at Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany.¹

     She was the eldest living child of Andreas Shafer and Anna Kneissl. Her daughter said that the parents were married in Palling instead of Schrobenhausen because Anna was pregnant.
She married Johann Kneissl, the first cousin of her mother, requiring a papal dispensation because of the relationship. After several moves, they settled in 16 Hauptstrasse Fuerstenfeldbruck where Johann established his Metzgerei (meat business) and there raised their 4 sons and a daughter.¹ Married name: Kneissl.

     Ottilie 'Tillie' Schafer was born circa 1921.¹ She married Hans Huber.¹ Ottilie 'Tillie' Schafer died on 16 August 1982 at Furstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany.¹

     Married name: Huber.

     Raimund Schafer was born on 10 February 1883 at Schwabmuenchen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ He (1) married Viktoria Stieff.¹ Raimund Schafer (2) married Elisabeth Schafer, daughter of Josef Schafer and Anna Schmid, after 1930 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ Raimund Schafer was buried in Schrobenhausen.¹ He died on 2 February 1938 at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria.¹

     During WWI, Raimund was in Galicia (Poland), Russia and France. Raimund Schafer was a ropemaker (Seilermeister) in Schrobenhausen. Although he was not the oldest son, he took over his father's business and ran it for his mother when she was widowed; she set up Andreas, her oldest son, as a ropemaker in nearby Aichach. He taught his niece Anna how to make knotted items- she made a dolls rope hammock among many other things which was given to her great granddaughters in Danbury CT. at Schrobenhausen, Bavaria, Germany.¹ Raimund and Elisabeth were first cousins.¹

     Truus Schagen was born on 21 August 1884.² She married John Martens.¹ Tryntje Martens died in December 1972 at Haledon, Passaic County, NJ.^1,2

     A Trientje Schagen immigrated on the Werkendam, with her parents Pieter (42) and Cornelia (43 ), and siblings Neeltje (19), Pietje (16), Maartje and Cornelia (2) and Anke (1). They were going to Paterson. Trientje is 18, which does NOT correspond with the birthdate from the SSDI.³ The 1920 census lists John Marten and Thresa at 39 Belle Ave (1st Ward) at Paterson City, Passaic County, NJ, with their son Jochan (4 + 7 mo, b. NJ.)⁴ Name variation: Trientje Schagen.³ Married name: Tryntje Martens.² Name variation: Thresa Marten.⁴

     Joseph Schamberger Sr. was born on 26 December 1858 at Kydne, Bohemia.¹ He married Anna Dorothy Svantner, daughter of Anton Schwandtner and Anna Panosch, on 21 January 1882 at Nonakdyne, Czechoslovakia.¹ Joseph Schamberger Sr. died on 1 January 1934 at Garfield, NJ.¹

     Joseph Schamberger Sr. immigrated on 22 July 1891 to Port of New York, New York City.¹ Joseph Schamberger Sr. and Anna Dorothy lived at 78 Wessington Ave at Garfield, NJ.¹ Joseph Schamberger Sr. was owner of a shoe store, and he wove rag rugs for sale.¹

     Geeske Schaper was born on 14 May 1867 at Molkwerum, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands.^1,2 She married Auke Faber on 29 May 1891 at Stavoren, Friesland, The Netherlands.²

     The 1920 census lists Isaac Faber and Grace at Hill Street at Midland Park Borough, Bergen County, NJ, with their son Dick (21, b. NJ.)³ Married name: Grace Faber.³

     Jacob Schaper was born on 26 July 1887 at Gaasterland, Friesland, The Netherlands.^1,3 He married Katie W Little, daughter of Leonard Littel and Cornelia Rosenbeek, on 6 October 1915 at Midland Park, NJ, (First Reformed Church.)^4,1 Jacob Schaper died on 7 October 1939 at Newburgh, Orange County, NY.¹ He was buried in Valleau Cemetery in Ridgewood.¹

     Jacob Schaper and Wopke Leentjes immigrated on 1 May 1911 on the Nieuw Amsterdam, from Rotterdam (22 Apr 1911), arriving in New York on 1 May 1911. They were going to their uncle A. Faber in Ridgewood. Both listed their father as their contact in Holland. Jacob was from Balk, Wopke van Sloten.^1,2 In 1917 he was re-elected as diaken in the Dutch Reformed Church at Wortendyke, Bergen County, NJ.⁵ Jacob Schaper was in the scavenger business in Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ, with his uncle Auke Faber.¹ The 1920 census lists Jacob Schaper and Katie W at West Saddle Farm Road (#250) at Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ, with three children: Cornelia W. (3), Gertrude (1 1/2) and Leonard (1 mo.)⁶ Jacob Schaper and Katie had six children, all baptized in the First Reformed Church, Midland Park, NJ.⁷ Jacob Schaper and Kate lived in 1927 at West Saddle River Road at Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ, Her father Leonard Littel lived there also.⁸ Jacob Schaper and Katie W lived in 1934 at State Highway #2 at Ridgewood, Bergen County, NJ, They lived there until 1935, when they moved to Chester, New York.^9,1 Jacob Schaper worked in 1935 for the Franklin Lakes Dairy Products, 510 West Saddle River Road, Ridgewood, NJ, proprietor Harvey B. Greene.⁹
     The 1937 directory lists them as removed to New York, although Cornelia seems to be listed as a bookkeeper in Little Falls, with rental at 510 West Saddle River Road.¹⁰
Jacob Schaper's obituary appeared on 12 October 1939 in the Ridgewood Herald (pg. 2.)¹

     Jan Schaper was born on 16 November 1869 at Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands.¹ He married Jantje de Vries on 13 August 1891 at Friesland.²

     Jan Schaper and Jantje had at least seven children.³

     Jantje Schaper was born on 21 April 1891 at Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands.^1,2 She married Walter Leentjes.^2,3 Jennie Leentjes died on 22 May 1983 at Christian Health Care Center, Wyckoff, Bergen County, NJ.² She was buried on 26 May 1983 in George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus.²

     Jantje Schaper immigrated on 24 July 1911 on the Noordam, from Rotterdam, arriving 24 Jul 1911 in New York. She is from Balk, her contact in Holland is her father R. Schaper. She is going to Hohokus, NJ. Her contact is her uncle Auke Faber.^4,3 The 1920 census lists Walter Leentjes and Jantje at Orchard Street at Franklin Township, Bergen County, NJ, with three daughters: Jewel (7), Pauline (4) and Jesse? (2 + 7 mo.)³
Jantje Schaper's obituary appeared on 26 May 1983 in the Ridgewood News (pg. 18.)² Married name: Janet Leentjes.⁵ Married name: Jennie Leentjes.^2,3

     Orrie Schaper was born on 9 February 1923 at The Netherlands.^2,1 He married Pearl Junta.¹ He died on 21 February 2014 at Midland Park, NJ.¹ He was buried in George Washington Memorial Park in Paramus.¹

     Orrie Schaper's obituary appeared in the Vander Plaat Colonial Home Website.³ A plaque is placed on a bench in the Wyckoff Environmental Center (.) Name variation: William Schaper.¹

     Rein Schaper was born on 12 May 1864 at Workum, Friesland, The Netherlands.³ He married Geertje Lunenburg on 6 November 1890 at Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands.^4,5 Rein Schaper died on 14 May 1934 at 441 Farview Ave, Ridgewood, NJ.^1,6 He was buried on 17 May 1934 in Valleau Cemetery in Ridgewood.¹

     Rein Schaper officially recognizes Jacob as his son on 24 Mar 1904.⁷ Rein Schaper and Geertje Schaper immigrated on the Ryndam, from Rotterdam, arriving 9 Apr 1914 in New York, with four children: Wabe (21), Aaltje (15), Jeltje (14) and Jan (11). Their last residence was Balk. Their contact in Holland was her brother H. Lunenburg in Balk. They were going to their son and brother Jacob Schaper in Midland Park. Also mentioned is their daughter and son-in-law in Paterson.⁸ The 1920 census lists Ryan Schaper and Gertrude at Wortendyke Roads (#148) at Franklin Township, Bergen County, NJ, with three children: Wabe (26), Julia (18) and John (16), and a nephew Ryan (20). The family immigrated in 1914, Ryan in 1919. The men were masons and cementblock contractors, Julia was a weaver.⁹ Rein Schaper was a cement block manufacturer at Hawthorne, Passaic County, NJ. Reim Schaper and Gertrude lived in 1931 at 441 Farview Ave at Ridgewood, NJ.¹⁰
Rein Schaper's obituary appeared on 18 May 1934 in the Ridgewood Herald (pg. 5, col. 4.)¹ Name variation: Reim Schaper.⁶ Name variation: Ryan Schaper.⁹

     Wabe Schaper was born in 1840 at Molkwerum, Hemelumer Oldeferd, Friesland, The Netherlands.² He married Jantje Reins de Bok on 10 May 1863 at Hindeloopen, Friesland, The Netherlands.^1,2

     His parents were Durk Wabes Schaper and Geeske Jans Zeldenrust.²

     Anna Maria Scharek married Samuel Jacobs, son of Henry Jacobs and Maria Catharina (?), on 12 February 1756 at York County, PA.¹ Anna Maria Scharek was buried in Jacobs Cemetery.¹

     Married name: Jacobs.

     Anna Scheiner was born on 14 August 1894 at Baltimore, MD.¹ She married Melvin Arthur Myers, son of Ira Hildebrandt Myers and Emma Jacobs, on 4 September 1915.¹ Anna Scheiner died on 24 March 1962 at Baltimore, MD.¹

     Married name: Myers.

     George Scheiner was born on 2 June 1860 at Germany.¹ He married Mary Elizabeth Pachta circa 1886.¹ George Scheiner died on 27 December 1929 at Baltimore, MD.¹

     Charlotte Schen was born on 4 November 1846 (1900 census has Nov 1845.)^4,5 She married Adam Hubschmitt. Charlotte Schen died on 10 September 1903.⁴ She was buried in NY Cemetery (Maple Grove) in Hackensack.⁴

     The 1880 census lists Adam Hubschmitt and Charlotte at 325 East 10th Street at Manhattan, NY, with six children, all b. NY: Charlotte (14), George (11), John A (9), Otilia (7), Phillip (5), Adam (3), and William (Oct 1879.)⁶ Charlotte Schen and Adam had six children, five living in 1900; but Find-A-Grave has a number of children that died young, and some are in the 1880 census, that are not on Find-A-Grave.^5,4,6 The 1900 census lists Charlotte Schen at 408 E 52nd Street at Manhattan, NY, with two sons: Adam W (Sep 1876, b. NY, physician) and William P (Oct 1879, b. NY); and a servant Annie Koscisonka (Nov 1882, b. Poland). Her parents were born in Germany.⁵ Married name: Charlotte Hubschmitt.^6,5
     Her maidenname is indexed variously as Schen, Scheu, Schew and Schem.

     Abraham Schenck was born on 8 May 1689 (BC-Families has date as 20 May.)^1,2 He married Sarah Bogaert, daughter of Gysbert Teunise Bogaert and Jannetje Symonson Van Arsdale, on 20 April 1717.¹

     Annetje Roelofsz Schenk was born circa 1663.^2,3 She married Jan Albertse Terhune, son of Albert Albertse Terhune and Geertje Dirks, on 1 July 1683 at Flatbush, NY, (DRC) (Jan Albertsz to Anetje Roelofs Schenck.)^1,3,4,5 Annetje Roelofsz Schenk died in October 1688.² She was buried in Flatlands.³

     Married name: Terhune.

     Catherine Schenck was born on 29 August 1720.¹ She married Joost Duryea, son of Abraham Duryea and Elizabeth Polhemius, on 23 December 1752.¹ Catherine Schenck died on 22 March 1796.¹

     Peter Schenck and Catherine lived at Newtown Catherine's father Peter resided in Newtown.¹ Married name: Duryea.

     Cornelia Schenck married Charles Duryea, son of Joost Duryea and Magdalena LeFebre.^1,3 Cornelia Schenck died before 1743 as her husband remarried.

     Married name: Duryea.

     Cornelia Schenck was born on 15 November 1734.¹ She married Jacob Duryea on 24 December 1752.^1,2 Cornelia Schenck died on 3 March 1793.¹

     Cornelia Schenck lived at Bushwick, NY.¹ Married name: Duryea.

     Eliza Schenck was born on 9 January 1796 at Fishkill, NY.¹ She married Stephen Hasbrouck, son of Joseph Isaac Hasbrouck and Cornelia Schoonmaker, on 16 August 1816.¹ Eliza Schenck died on 8 November 1845 at New York.¹

     Name variation: Elsie Schench.¹ Married name: Hasbrouck.

     Garret Schenck was born on 27 October 1671 at Flatlands, Long Island, NY, (calculated.)^1,3,4 He married Nelle Voorhees, daughter of Coert Stevense Van Voorhis and Marrietje Gerritse Van Couvenhoven.¹ Garret Schenck died on 5 September 1745 at Pleasant Valley, Monmouth County, NJ, aged 73.10.8.^1,3,5 He was buried in Schenck-Couwenhoven Graveyard.^2,5

     Garret Schenck and Nelle had nine more children (all in Konight; all but Kortenius are in the will; see BC-Families for more information):
1. Antje (bp. 15 Nov 1694, Brooklyn; sp. Roelof Martense and Tryntje, his wife; v.d.Linde p.161)
2. Roelof (b. 27 Apr 1697; tombstone)
3. Kortenius (c. 1702)
4. Aaltje (bp. 29 May 1705; Brooklyn; sp. Joost Van Brunt and Aaltje, his wife; v.d.Linde p.149)
5. Neeltje (c. 1708)
6. Garret (bp. 2 Nov 1712, Freehold, NJ)
7. Margaret (bp.17 Apr 1715, Freehold, NJ)
8. Jan (bp. 9 Feb 1718, Freehold, NJ)
9. Albert (bp. 18 Mar 1721, Freehold, NJ).^2,6,7 Garret Schenck made a will on 12 January 1739. It was proved 7 Oct 1745. He was Garrat Schenck, of Middletown, Monmouth Co., gentleman. Names wife Neelkie; sons Raeloffe, Garrat, John, and Albert; five daughters: Mary, Alkie, Neelkie, Rachel and Margaret; eight grandchildren, sons and daughters of daughter Anne; granddaughter Nelly. Executors: wife, son Roeloffe and son-in-law Hendrick Hendrickson. Witnesses: Johannes Bennet, Roelyf Covenhoven, and Robert Dodsworth. Roelef Schenck and Hendrick Hendrickson sworn as executors.⁸