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Looking for the place in Prussia (Germany?) where my Scheidt/Scheid family hailed. Anyone who can provide a scientific (or not so) guess I'd appreciate any leads. I have a copy of a state of Wisconsin, Milwauke County, document dated November, 1856 where John Peter renounced his loyalty to Frederick William, King of Prussia. Says he landed at the port of New York. Can't get back any further than that so I'm looking for someone who may have some idea what that all means. In other words - where was Prussia and how can I get more on the family back in that neck of the woods? Anyone have any passenger records listing him or similar stuff. Did he drop off any brothers or sisters in Milwaukee who may have better info? His wife's maiden name was "Hummes" or "Hummers" which I understand is popular in the Netherlands and northern Germany - so maybe that is a lead.
Quick family history follows.
Peter Scheidt and his wife Mary Catherine Hummes (or Hummers) Schedit married in Europe and came to the US around 1856 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where their son, Jacob, was born in 1858. Then they move to Butler County, Ohio. In 1870 they were in Wayne Township around Jacksonburg, Ohio. By 1880 they had moved to Trenton in Madison Township. In the 1880 census the family name is spelled “Schide.” Last time I was in Ohio there was still a very faded set of small stone markers for Pater and Catherine right next to the parking lot next to the Holy Name Cemetery in Trenton OH.
Peter and Catherine were Catholic and members of the St. Stephen’s parrish located in Hamilton, Ohio, and later they were some of the first members of the Holy Name parrish in Trenton. Catherine died of cancer in 1888 and Peter in 1903.
Their children were Jacob, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth ("Lizzie") John Bernard, Caroline A., Kathryn Elizabeth and twin sister Anna Martha, Peter Paul(or Paulus - who died as a child), Joseph, and Willima M. Most of the children apear to have remained Catholic but the oldest, my great-grandfather, Jacob, married Anna Becker (or Baker) and became Protestant. Apparently there was a great falling out of the families since my grandparents never talked about about the old folks and never visited the old gravesite. Famlily has been Protestant ever since (and is now named Scheid not Schiedt).
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