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I am lookng for past and present history of those related to Jacob and Magdalena Schnieder, whose gravestone in the old Nunawading (Burwood) cemetery in Victoria, Australia, says were natives of Ancovie, Switzerland. Where is Ancovie and why would the Schnieders want to leave it? In Australia Jacob bought into the original Jackel/Moeller Portions in a Germanic settlement on the borders of Nunawading and Boroondara in 1856. Was there religious oppresion in Switzerland? One Schneider grave expresses a strong and evocative religious ethos in the words: " There is true hope in Gods promise of a Kingdom without end." Why were they associated with religious refugees from Prussia? Their children were born in Nunawading, their part of which which became known as Box Hill after twenty years of rural pioneering. The children were: Juilia Schneider b. 1854 Nunawading - who later married a Swede, Andrew Hansen; George jacob b. 1856; Magdalena b 1858; Mary b 1863; Gertrude b. 1864; Matilda b. 1866; Lucius Jacob b. 1868; Rosalia b. 1871; Paul Victor b. 1873; Christina Dorothea b 1875; and Theodora Schneider b 1878. Schneiders had a thriving vineyard until phytophera killed the vines in the mid 1880s. Was it young L Jacob who later moved out to the Basin where his sister Julia and Andrew Hansen were near by? I am researching this family and these communities. I am interested in the patterns of change and adaption from enclave to social settlement, to the link with the land, with place, and primary production. These places are all suburbs now, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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