Forwarded to list: > Source: SCHNEIDER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: SCHNEIDER, Ernst, Hessian settler at Marysburg, Ontario, 1784. > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Message Board URL: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lgFBAEB/1441 > > Message Board Post: > > Having searched for this man through 1775 postings on > this Message Board without success, I truly wonder why > nobody has been looking for this early Upper Canada > pioneer, who settled in Township #5 Marysburgh, Quinte > Isle, Lake Ontario. > > He was supposed to be a Hessian soldier of King George III > who came here during the American Revolution, but due > to the great numbers of soldiers with the name SCHNEIDER > a definite identification was not possible with the facts > we have found so far. > > Fact is that in the Papers and Records of the Ontario > Historical Society, Vol.21 (1924) pages 259-60 he is mentioned as follows: > > "One of the Hessian Settlers, Ernest SCHNEIDER, had > a big nose, and some local humorist, seeing a resemblance > between a sharp rock forming a point on the lake shore > and Schneider's nasal organ, brought the point into > geographical recognition by giving it the name of > "Schneider's Nose". (This article was by Alexander Smith, > and was titled: "Some Hessians of the U.E.L. settlement > in Marysburgh" > > I personally have a long list of Schneider soldiers of the > Hessian and Brunswicker troops stationed in Quebec > during the American Revolution, but I was unable so far > to pinpoint which one of them could be him, there was > not one with a first name of Ernst (Ernest), but many > with the first name of Johann or Johannes. Help is needed > here, but reason for this posting is actually to advise of > an event taking place on > > Saturday, 21. August 2004 at the Rose House Museum, > ========================================== > Waupoos, near Picton, to commemorate the 220th year > of the arrival of the Hessian soldier settlers at the Fifth > Township on Quinte Island in Oct. 1784. Big tent, music, > food and entertainment and many Hessian descendants > are meeting old an new cousins. I myself will present a > Bronze 'Hessian Soldier" Plaque to the Museum, and will > have available a booklet "The Hessians of Marysburg". > > For more information call me direct or e-mail > the Rose Museum rosemuseum@pecounty.on.ca > > With my best regards, > John Helmut Merz, hessian@sympatico.ca > researching Hessian soldiers of the American Revolution. > http://www3.sympatico.ca/hessian/plakette.htm