Scheürer/Scheirÿ/Shirey

This file submitted by: Clarence Shirey.

I published the family genealogy in 1974 [over 2,000 pages!!] and an additional volume in 1977, long before the days of computes and e-mails, and the internet! I'm simply trying to see what else I can find now.

Johann Heinrich Scheürer / Scheirÿ wrote his Last Will & Testament on 22 Oct. 1783, and it was probated on 16 Feb. 1784. He lived in Windsor Twp. with his farm lands also going into Maidencreek Twp., Berks County, PA. He is called "Henry" on most documents.

"Henry" married Susanne (Gabriel), of Windsor Twp., Berks Co., PA. She was the daughter of Paul Gabriel, a wool comber, whose estate documents are dated 1761 -1762, in which she is called the "eldest daughter," along with her husband. Susannah Shyrer (as spelled & written) was alive in the 1790 Census in Windsor Twp., Berks County, PA., with the youngest son still at home.

The Scheürer / Scheire / Scheirÿ family -- [Births have been unlocated for all of the children - estimates would be circa 1750's thru circa 1774 era of time!]

  1. Henry, Jr. was deceased by 17 March 1785, and married Elisabeth ____?____ She may have been a Riegel, for Henry Riegel, "brother-in-law" was the Administrator of the Estate. Henry, Jr. had two children:

    1. Henry, III, whose baptism is found in Zion's Windsor Castle Church

    2. Elisabeth

  2. John, who is found in early tax lists as a single man and married 11 May 1784, to Anna Margaret (Mueller), of Maidencreek Twp., Berks Co., PA. She was the daughter of Valentine Mueller. The family is found with one son baptized at Oley Reformed Church, and then they moved on to Westmoreland County for a time, and then up into Parker Twp., Butler County, PA. where John died on 22 Feb. 1822. [He is my 3rd Great-Grandfather] In Butler County, the surname is spelled Shira. On John's Last Will & Testament the Witness is Michael Geyer, Jr. mentioned below! The Shira family ---

    1. Daniel

    2. Susanna married Adam Mohney, Jr. and lived in now Hawthorn, PA - Clarion County

    3. Mary Magdalena, a/k/a "Matlina" married Jacob Hilliard and also lived in now Clarion Co., PA.

    4. John, Jr. served in War of 1812, and then moved to Redbank Twp., Armstrong Co., PA., where he married Mary (Shaffer) [my 2nd Great-Grandparents]

    5. William, married Polly (Hanna) and is buried Mt. Varnum Cemetery, Parsonville, PA.

    6. Heinrich - died as child

    7. Michael, bapt. in 1792 at Oley Reformed Church in Berks Co. - died as a child

    8. Jacob married Margaret Ann (Hanna) and moved to Arcadia, Michigan

    9. Peter married Jane (Hutchinson) and lived in Butler Co. and buried at the Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Annisville, PA

    10. Lewis - said to have moved into Ohio

    11. Anna Margaret - died as a child

    12. Elizabeth married Robert Hanna and lived in area of North Washington, Butler Co., PA.

    13. David whom married Maria (Hutchinson) and lived in Butler Co. and is buried at Mt. Varnum Cemetery, Parsonville, PA.

  3. Elizabeth, married William Becker, who had died by 16 January 1806, in Windsor Twp., Berks Co., PA. At the time of his death they had children already married. issue:

    1. John

    2. William

    3. Henry

    4. Elizabeth married Peter Michael - possibly moved to Butler Co., PA

    5. Magdalena married Henry Bacon.

  4. Michael, possibly married a woman named Dorothea ???? There is a couple in Westmoreland Co., PA. by this name with baptisms.

  5. Unknown daughter ??

  6. Catharina, married 10 March 1782 to Johann "Michael" Geier / Geyer, who was born 23 March 1760, in Montgomery Co., PA. They too migrated to western PA. and lived at Watersonville, PA. where he was a Potter. "Michael" died in 1817. His estate involved a law suit with one Hugh Gillespie over the Pottery, and went on for years and years even his son was still pursuing the money in 1830's, etc. The Geyer's were the parents of the following known issue:

    1. Anna Maria

    2. Elizabeth

    3. Henry

    4. Barbara

    5. Michael Geyer, Jr. born 13 Jan. 1792 [ Administrator & Executor of his father's affairs] relocated to Rock Cave, W. VA., where he died in 1857.

  7. Maria "Margaret" , possibly married on 14 Oct. 1786, in Windsor Twp., Berks Co., PA. to Conrad Mennor. She was under 14 yr. of age when her father had died.

  8. Ludwig, a/k/a "Lewis" - youngest of the children was under 14 years of age when his father had died, and still at home with his mother in the 1790 Census.


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