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A biographical history of the Eby family: being a history of their movements in Europe during the Reformation and of their early settlement in America; as also much other unpublished historical information belonging
Type: BookAbstract: A detailed genealogy of the descendants of Theodorus Eby, Peter Eby and Nicholas Eby who migrated to Pennsylvania from Europe between 1715 and 1820. Names and vital dates are given of all descendants ...Keywords: BiographiesClergyGenealogyMarriageMennonitesImmigrationPennsylvania GermansEby familySchneider Barbara Eby (m. Joseph)Eby John HannesYear of publication: 1889Historical Period: 1800-1889Export options:A biographical history of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county: early settlers and their descendants
Type: BookAbstract: A reprint of the first chapter in Eby's book which is indexed in detail in the WRP database. There is a biographical sketch of Eby as one of the earliest local historians. The Pennsylvania Mennonite ...Keywords: MennonitesBiographiesIndigenous peoplesWar 1812Military conscriptionPennsylvania GermansWaterloo TownshipEby Ezra E.Sherk JosephBetzner SamuelYear of publication: 1970Historical Period: 1799-1861Export options:A biographical history of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character
Type: BookAbstract:A collection of biographical sketches of the mainly Pennsylvania German Mennonites who settled in Waterloo Township and adjoining areas in the first half of the nineteenth century. The details for ...
Year of publication: 1895Historical Period: 1798-1895Export options:Bishop Benjamin Eby
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A brief biography of Benjamin Eby, containing a transcript of "A short biography of the venerable old bishop," by one of Eby's parishioners who comments on Eby's character and sermons. The article is ...Keywords: BiographiesClergyMennonitesTeachersSchoolsPennsylvania GermansEby BenjaminEby IsaacEby VeronicaShoemaker JohnYear of publication: 1962Historical Period: 1785-1834Export options:Church register of H.W. Peterson, 1833-1835
Type: ReportAbstract: Transcribed and indexed extracts from the record book kept in Berlin in the early 1830s. Details are provided of about 125 births, baptisms, confirmations and burials conducted by visiting clergymen ...Keywords: Baptismal recordsBirthsBurialsChurchesClergyDeathsFuneralsGerman languageMarriage registersYear of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1833-1835Export options:Fugitive slaves and free Americans in Canada West before 1860
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: A discussion of research sources used in the author's thesis about black settlement and experience in the Queen's Bush. Most fugitive slaves were illiterate, and their settlement is marked only by ...Keywords: Census recordsYear of publication: 1996Historical Period: 1830-1860Export options:Genealogy of the Schneider-Snider family
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An extract from Ezra Eby's history of Waterloo Township (Volume 2, pp. 266-272) setting out the genealogy of the Schneider and Snider families.Keywords: GenealogySt JacobsWoolwich TownshipWaterloo TownshipSchneider JacobSchneider ChristianSnider Jacob C.Erb AbrahamSnider EliasSnider WilliamYear of publication: 1968Historical Period: 1800-1872Export options:In search of freedom: early blacks in Waterloo County
Type: Journal ArticleAbstract: An analysis of black settlement with biographies of notable personalities such as the barber and politician Peter Edward Susand, teacher John Frederick Augustus Sykes Fayette, and Robert Sutherland ...Keywords: Black peopleTeachersEducationProperty rightsJubileesSchools PublicLawyersClergyPoliticiansElections MunicipalYear of publication: 1992Historical Period: 1834-1900Export options:Index to marriages from the record book
Type: ReportAbstract: An index to over 500 marriages, listing names of spouses with dates of the marriages.Year of publication: 1991Historical Period: 1839-1847Export options:The black experience in Canada's Queen's Bush
Type: ThesisAbstract: A study of the settlement by escaped slaves and other blacks in the Queen's Bush area to the north and west of Waterloo County, which included in the 1830s and 1840s the northern half of Wellesley ...Keywords: Black peopleChurches BaptistClergyLand developmentLand salesLand surveyorsSchoolsChurches MethodistSettlers BlackMissionariesYear of publication: 1995Historical Period: 1830-1860Export options: