Hello: I'm looking for information -- any information at all -- regarding a man who appears in the Muster Rolls of German Troops in Quebec microfilm records as: SCHILLER, John, Corp co., Peel County, Ont I'm trying to trace the ancestry of my 19th century SHEELER family of Niagara District and later Kent County. My 3xgt-grandfather Alexander SHEELER is the brick wall. He presumably married the widowed Margaret HAGERMAN DALTON (b c1806) in the Niagara District between 1830, when her son Edmond by her first husband James DALTON was born, and 1832 or 1833 when their own first son Phillip was born. Their younger son John SHEELER, b 1835, was my gt-gt-grandfather. Margaret was a widow at least by the 1851 census and living in Kent County with her sons. I haven't seen an 1841 census record for this family, but Alexander presumably died when his sons and step-son were too young to remember much about him. The boys spelled their name SCHIELER, SHIELER, and SHILLER (as well as the usual creative spellings by other people) before settling on SHEELER by the later19th century. Alexander appears only as a name in his sons' marriage records of 1860 and 1861 -- I have been unable to locate a birth, marriage, or death record for Alexander which might give his father's name and nationality. In the 19th century censuses, brothers John and Philip can't seem to make up their minds as to their ethnic ancestry, French or German, which made me suspect that their grandfather or great-grandfather might have been a Hessian soldier who settled in Quebec after the American Revolution and married a French girl, as many of them did. I'm unable to read microfilm myself owing to a vision problem, but a friend who was also researching Quebec Hessians searched for me and came up with four possible "suspects" from the Muster Rolls. The other three have much more detailed entries, giving birth dates and places in Germany, marriage dates and wives' names, and occupations. For this John SCHILLER, all the information given was as above. It wasn't clear if he had been born in Peel County to German parents, had been born in Germany like the others and was living in Peel when he joined the regiment, or settled there after the war instead of accepting land in Quebec like the others. Can anyone provide any scrap of information at all? Something that eliminates him from my search will do just as well as something that keeps him in consideration as an ancestor. Thank you, Margaret Gibbs Richmond, BC

There was a SCHILLER family here in Cooksville, which is in Peel County, back in the 1800's who started the wine industry in Canada in 1811. If you are interested I will check some of my resources and get back to you. Jane in Cooksville (Mississauga) Ontario, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: <bethanyc@aebc.com> To: <CAN-ONT-PEEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 3:00 PM Subject: [Can-Ont-Peel] John SCHILLER, late 18th century > Hello: > I'm looking for information -- any information at all -- regarding a man > who appears in the Muster Rolls of German Troops in Quebec microfilm > records as: > > SCHILLER, John, Corp co., Peel County, Ont > > I'm trying to trace the ancestry of my 19th century SHEELER family of > Niagara District and later Kent County. My 3xgt-grandfather Alexander > SHEELER is the brick wall. He presumably married the widowed Margaret > HAGERMAN DALTON (b c1806) in the Niagara District between 1830, when her > son Edmond by her first husband James DALTON was born, and 1832 or 1833 > when their own first son Phillip was born. Their younger son John SHEELER, > b 1835, was my gt-gt-grandfather. > > Margaret was a widow at least by the 1851 census and living in Kent County > with her sons. I haven't seen an 1841 census record for this family, but > Alexander presumably died when his sons and step-son were too young to > remember much about him. The boys spelled their name SCHIELER, SHIELER, and > SHILLER (as well as the usual creative spellings by other people) before > settling on SHEELER by the later19th century. Alexander appears only as a > name in his sons' marriage records of 1860 and 1861 -- I have been unable > to locate a birth, marriage, or death record for Alexander which might give > his father's name and nationality. > > In the 19th century censuses, brothers John and Philip can't seem to make > up their minds as to their ethnic ancestry, French or German, which made me > suspect that their grandfather or great-grandfather might have been a > Hessian soldier who settled in Quebec after the American Revolution and > married a French girl, as many of them did. > > I'm unable to read microfilm myself owing to a vision problem, but a friend > who was also researching Quebec Hessians searched for me and came up with > four possible "suspects" from the Muster Rolls. The other three have much > more detailed entries, giving birth dates and places in Germany, marriage > dates and wives' names, and occupations. For this John SCHILLER, all the > information given was as above. It wasn't clear if he had been born in Peel > County to German parents, had been born in Germany like the others and was > living in Peel when he joined the regiment, or settled there after the war > instead of accepting land in Quebec like the others. > > Can anyone provide any scrap of information at all? Something that > eliminates him from my search will do just as well as something that keeps > him in consideration as an ancestor. > > Thank you, > > Margaret Gibbs > Richmond, BC > > > ==== CAN-ONT-PEEL Mailing List ==== > Are you missing a Twig from your Family Tree? > Post a query message -- give the SURNAME -- > Someone else may be researching the same family. > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.6/378 - Release Date: 28/06/06 > > -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.6/378 - Release Date: 28/06/06