Ramcharan-Crowley

Birthdate in French Republican Calendar: 5 Fructidor An II

DANIEL CROWLEY WRITES: The discovery of the earliest part of our family story in America I owe to that late Grande Dame, Louise de Lent Straesser, who put me onto her husband's cousin, Mary Schnéblin Marcussen of Bartonville, whose father Henry J . Schnéblin wrote a short family history in 1954. ...Ms. Marcussen's father's history tells how his unnamed grandfather emigrating with his wife and five children in 1847 to Bartonville, IL, where his wife soon died of fever. Although we don't know the names of the parents, we do know the names of four of the children. Assuming that Henry Schnébelin's grandparents were Franz-Joseph and Franziska Onimus Schnébelin, the ages of the known children fit... MAGDALENE CROWLEY WRITES: We received a letter in 2004 from Rémy Schnebelin in France, who researched the names and dates and gave extremely compelling evidence that Henry Schneblin's unnamed grandfather was instead Antoine Schnebelin (I399) born in 1803, son of Anton (I401) born in 1760. He was the brother of Daniel Crowley's great-grandfather, Franz-Joseph.

DANIEL CROWLEY WRITES: His father Franz-Joseph, then 53 years old and a postman, requested a passport on January 14, 1848, for travel possibly with his wife and children, to "Belleville." This may be the town in southern Illinois near St. Louis, o r merely a misspelling of Bartonville. MAGDALENE CROWLEY WRITES: There are cities named Belleville in the following states: Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. I have found Schnebelins from the mid-1800s in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Iowa.