SCHNEBELE, Anna Maria

Notes:

Religion: [240] Mentioned as part of the Mennonite families of the Franconia Conference.

1992 Biographical Sketch: [1] "According to Maria's gravestone, she was born in 1698 and died in 1776, and appears to have been the daughter of Hans Jacob Schnebelli."

1995 Biographical Sketch: [67] "Anna Maria Schnebeli, b. 12 Apr 1698, Ibersheim. She married Johan Georg Bachman in 1715. They came to Pennsylvania in 1717. They named their second child Hans Jacob."

1776 Tombstone: [241] Saucon Mennonite Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. [English translation of German words on Anna Maria Bachman's tombstone.]
In the year of our Lord
1776 on 4 November died
and is here buried
the Maria Bachman and
(who) was born 12 April
in the year of our Lord 1698

Anna married BACHMAN, George 1715, Ibersheim, Germany. George (son of BACHMAN, Jos and TREICHLER, Regula) was born 1686, Richterswil, Canton Zrich, Switzerland; died 22 Nov 1753, Coopersburg, Upper Saucon Township, Bucks (now Lehigh), PA; was buried Saucon Mennonite Cemetery, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. [Group Sheet]

1. BACHMAN, Henry was born 1717, Ibersheim, Germany; died Aft 1792, , Bucks, Pennsylvania.
2. BACHMAN, Jacob was born 1720.
3. BACHMAN, Catherine was born 1722; died 1810.
4. BACHMAN, George was born 1724; died 1806.
5. BACHMAN, Christian was born 1727; died 1783.
6. BACHMAN, Mary was born 1729; died 1785.
7. BACHMAN, Elizabeth was born 1732.
8. BACHMAN, John was born 1735; died Abt 1801.
9. BACHMAN, Samuel was born 1739; died 1814.
10. BACHMAN, Susanna was born 1742.
11. BACHMAN, Abraham was born 1744.

Notes:

Is this the same as Jacob Schnebeli, 1673-1714?

1995 Biographical Sketch: [67] "Hans Jacob Schnebeli, b. 25 Nov 1670, Affoltern. In 1695 it was reported at Affoltern that he was a 'Taufer.' He may have lived at Ibersheim, Pfalz. He wrote in his Bible in 1696, 'This Bible belongs to Hans
Jacob Schnebeli of the Ibersheimerhof and was received from my father-in-law.' The next inscription states that 'This Bible belongs to Wendelteiss Schnebelli and is in love so recorded in the year of our Lord 1708.' (This Wendelteiss (or
Matheiss) may have been a son of Hans Jacob born about 1697 and who died young.) Hans Jacob possibly received the Bible as a wedding present. The Bible was next in the possession of Anna Maria Schenebeli who married Hans Georg Bachman and left
from Ibersheim in 1717 for Pennsylvania. He may be the Hans Jacob Schnebeli who signed letters at Mannheim in 1706, 1717 and in 1727 as a Mennonite minister. In a letter dated 26 Jul 1710, Martin Egli, Hans Blimm and Christian Rupp of Alsace
asked Hans Jacob Schnebeli and Tillman Kolb (probably Sr.) in the Pfalz to assist 30 Anabaptists prisoners from Switzerland. He signed a letter at Ibersheim in 1709 and a letter at Mannheim in 1715 as a leader of the Mennonites there. In 1710
he received a letter as a Mennonite elder in the Pfalz."

1992 Biographical Sketch: [1] "This particular copy [the 1536 Froschauer Schnebelli-Bachmann Family Bible] came from an unknown ancestor of the Anabaptist Schnebelli family who lived in the Zurich area. In the 1640s or 1650s, it seems to have
moved with this family, first to the Alsace and from there down the Rhine River to the Ibersheimer Hof, just north of Worms in the Palatinate.

In 1696, the Bible was owned by a preacher Hans Jacob Schnebelli of the Ibersheimer Hof who signed it: 'This Bible belongs to the Hans Jacob Schnebelli at the Ibersheimer Hof and was received from my father-in-law. Anno 1696. Johann Jacob
Schnebely.'

This Hans Jacob Schnebelli appears to be the Preacher Hans Jacob Schenbelli who lived at Mannheim and the Ibersheimer Hof and who assisted in the 1710 flight of Swiss Anabaptist refugees on their way down the Rhine River to the Palatinate. [69]

In 1708, the Bible was owned by Matthias Schnebelli at the Ibersheimerhof, probably an unmarried son of Hans Jacob Schnebelli. [70]

Next to the title page of the second part is found a very rare 1708 Palatine frakture bookplate with the inscription: 'This Bible belongs to the Matthias Schnebly at the Ibersheimerhof, and it is in love so written in the year of Christ, 1708.' This made the piece even more unique, since this must be one of the earliest pieces of Mennonite fraktur that we have seen.

The father, preacher Hans Jacob Schnebelli, died by 1714."

1711 in Palatinate: [71] "Hans Jacob Schnebeli, a Mennonite deacon of Swiss ancestry, was living in the Palatinate in 1711; he may have been the same Hans Jacob Schnebeli of Ueberheimerhof in the Palatinate who, among others, signed a letter written by a number of Palatinate ministers in Holland in 1709, but again there is no indication he ever came to America."

Notes:

1986 Biographical Sketch: [1650] "Johann Jacob Schnebele (b. ca. 1620-30, prob. Affoltern am Albis, Canton Zrich, Switzerland) may be the Johann Jacob Schnebele of Ibersheim Hof, owner of the Bible inscribed 'This Bible belongs to the House of
Jacob Schnebeli of Ibersheim and came into my possession in 1696. Johannes Jacob Schnebley.'" A second inscription, 'This Bible belongs to Wendelteiss Schnebelli and is in love so recorded in the year of our lord 1708,' indicates that it was
passed down to another family member, perhaps on the death of this Johann Jacob. [1651] Ibersheim Hof is near Heilbronn (on the Neckar River), south of Heidelberg and Mannheim, on the main route of the Mennonite migration."

1995 Biographical Sketch: [1649] "Jacob Schnebeli, b. 7 Dec 1645. He married Barbara Habersaat of Aeugst. They were both living at Affoltern, Zurich in 1695 and 1708. Barbara died 21 Feb 1711. Her death was recorded at the end of the year in
the church register of Affoltern which may mean that it occurred away from Affoltern. Jacob lived at Mannheim, Germany in 1717 as a Mennonite widower. In 1711 he wrote a letter to fellow Mennonite Jacob Frey in Switzerland. He may have signed a
letter at Mannheim in 1727. He gave a Bible to Dielman Kolb before Kolb's departure for Pennsylvania in 1717. Dielman Kolb married Elisabeth widow of Jacob Schnebeli, son of this Jacob Schnebeli."

Johan — HABERSAAT, Barbara. Barbara died 21 Feb 1711. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

This genealogy of the Schnebele family follows that given by Davis [2115] in Emigrants, Refugees, and Prisoners, vol. 1, as Schnebeli Family "A." Elizabeth Washburn [2116] in Snively-Snavely details Davis' Schnebeli Family "C," as do the Auguste Baldensperger notes described in the George Long book, John Long of Lancaster County [2117] and the William Andrew Snively book Genealogical Memoranda. [2118] The Schnebeli Family "C" immigrant was Johan Jacob Schnebele, who was born 1659 in Affoltern, Canton Zrich and died 1743 in Mannheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. [2116] The George Long [2119] book traces Johan's daughter Anna, who married Johannes Lang (John Long), another immigrant to Mannheim Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, while Washburn's traces the descendants of Anna's siblings. Although both families may be related and appear to have originated in Affoltern, Canton Zrich, Switzerland, the Schnebeli Family "C" lived for a time in Baldenheim and Boisenbiesen, Alsace, while the Schnebeli Family "A" lived for a time in Ibersheimerhof. Some sources examined blur the distinctions between these families.

1995 Biographical Sketch: [2114] "Jacob Schnebeli, b. c 1618, Affoltern. He is listed in the census with his wife in 1689 at Affoltern. In the 1633 census, age 15 as Jacob. He married on 16 Nov 1641, Elsbeth Schnebeli (bap. 6 Feb. 1620), daughter of Jacob Schnebeli. They were both mentioned as Anabaptists. From 1646 to 1654 there are no baptisms for his children, which may mean he was out of the country during those years."