Have you looked into the possibility that Shirrow could be French. As in Shireau or Chireau or variants with an x on the end. Thought of this because I lived in Cajun Louisiana for many years and they have that type name variations. On 2/13/2014 7:19 AM, Melanie Rice wrote: > I knew what you meant. :) > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 6:14 AM, <RRRhoads@aol.com> wrote: > >> Woops! Make that Western townships. >> >> In a message dated 2/13/2014 8:02:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, >> mjrice.denver@gmail.com writes: >> >> Cousin Roger! Good to hear from you! I hope you're doing well. I wish >> this family left a trail like T. J. Rhodes did! >> >> "My experience is that when a couple in those days were married by a J.P. >> it is >> evidence that the couple was of two different denominations." >> >> I had not considered the different faiths angle. I also had no idea that >> German was spoken for so long in some areas. Would a relatively >> assimilated (into the melting pot) family have likely spoken both >> languages? >> >> 1800 found the Sherow's living in a Scot-Irish area of Augusta County, >> VA. There, they married into the Andrew and Weikle families, in the >> Scot-Irish Presbyterian church. When they arrived in Miami Valley, OH, ca >> 1810, they disbursed and didn't buy land immediately adjacent to the rest >> of the family. The Andrew family landed in Montgomery County, and the >> Sherow family in Miami County: Union & Concorde twps. Once there, most >> subsequent marriages we find are by JOP, rather than ministers. >> >> I and a couple of other Sherow cousins are trying to dig further on this >> line, and we are trying to establish the original nationality of "Sherow, >> Sherrow, Sharow, Shero, Sharo, Shiro." We have never seen it spelled >> Shearer, Sherrer, ect. - which I believe would be the more German variant. >> >> Once in the Miami Valley, the family married into the Young and Peck >> families. A local history says Philip Young joined the Brethren late in >> life. >> >> Thank you! >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:57 AM, <RRRhoads@aol.com> wrote: >> >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:55:31 -0700 >>> From: Melanie Rice <mjrice.denver@gmail.com> >>> Subject: [BRE] German Baptist marriage record questions >>> To: BRETHREN@rootsweb.com >>> Message-ID: >>> <CADOsdMC7Bmu5H5V_y2kx6gFpjTbBW3wwvzza8rff4=UGGnwj5g@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >>> >>> If a couple was married by a German Baptist minister in 1827, >>> PrebleCounty, OH - *may >>> I presume that one or both of their families were brethren?* >>> >>> During that time period, in relatively newly settled Ohio, would a German >>> Baptist minister have married couples who were not part of their church? >>> >>> The specific marriage record is for a Caty Sharow to a Daniel Brucker, on >>> May 17, 1827, Preble County, OH. >>> >>> Also, if other couples I am researching in the same vicinity and time >>> period were NOT married by a minister of the gospel, *may I presume the >>> couple was not religious?* Would there be legitimate reasons that church >>> members would be married by a JOP? >>> >>> I am working on a difficult family line that seems to have ties in Miami, >>> Montgomery and Preble counties, OH, from about 1810 - 1840+. >>> >>> Do I understand correctly that* the designation "German Baptist" is >>> synonymous with Dunker Brethren in the early 1800s, Ohio?* >>> >>> Lastly, *would the German Baptist churches in the Miami Valley have >>> spoken >>> ONLY German at that time? Could the churches have been bilingual? What >>> about the members?* The family I'm working on (Sherow, etc.), came from >>> a >>> Scot-Irish settlement in Augusta County, VA, and appears to have been >>> assimilated. My research so far indicates they likely spoke English by >>> the >>> time they arrived in the Miami Valley, about 1810. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> Melanie Rice >>> Denver, Colo. >>> ------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Melanie, >>> Hey, your one of mine, cuzz (through Thomas Jefferson Rhodes)! My >>> experience is that when a couple in those days were married by a J.P. it >>> is >>> evidence that the couple was of two different denominations. As for the >>> spoken >>> language, I think that German was spoken among most German descendants >>> until >>> as late as the 1870s based on German language tombstones in Montgomery >>> Co. >>> I know that the Evangelical Lutheran (aka German) churches had German >>> language preaching until the 1930s. High schools in rural areas (e.g. >>> Brookville) had German courses that ended with WW I when Germany started >>> the war. >>> When the citizens of Brookville demanded the school stop all German >>> courses, the school officials refused. Whereupon the citizens stormed >>> the school >>> and burned the books. >>> >>> Roger Rhoads >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN >>> ------------------------ >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message