Researching all things Shamel, Schimmel, Schemel The hunt goes cold with Johannes Schimmel who arrived on the Queen Elizabeth Sept. 16, 1738, age 26. Johannes died in York Co. PA about 1749. Now the Maryland Connection. His widow, Anna Margaretha Geiger (1722-1803) from Bissingin, Wuerttemburg, Germany. Remarried the widower Peter Binckele (Binkley). The Binckeles moved from York Co. PA to Monocacy Maryland in 1763, and came on to North Carolina in 1772. Looking for any references or records linking Anna Margaretha Geiger or her son John Werner Schemel (Shamel) back to the father or earlier. Michael L. Shamel ============================================= Mike Shamel Phone 410-654-3796 10859 Sherwood Hill Rd Mobile 443-756-0730 Owings Mills, MD 21117 mshamel@comcast.net