Mathias Scheirich

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/44341979
• Name: Matthias Shiry
• Eby ID Number: 00100-5559
• Land: Bef 1831, Waterloo Township - German Company Tract Lot 051, Waterloo County, Ontario

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Mathias Scheirich, "the ancestor of the family, was a native of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where he was born December 6th, 1751. In 1805 he emigrated to Canada and settled in Waterloo County, nearly two miles south of Berlin. His old homestead is now possessed by George Histand. He was married to Catharine Mooney who was born in 1762 and died December 10th, 1825. He died February 6th, 1835. They had a family of eight (maybe they had more than eight) children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). 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a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].

Mathias — Catharine Mooney. Catharine was born 1762; died 10 Dec 1825; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

1. Jacob Scheirich was born , , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown.
2. Anna Maria "Maria" Scheirich was born Oct 1784, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 10 Jul 1841, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. John Scheirich was born 4 Aug 1787, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 3 Apr 1862, near, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , First Mennonite Cemetery, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
4. David Scheirich was born 24 Dec 1790, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 15 Dec 1862, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
5. Catharine Scheirich was born 18 Mar 1793, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 8 Apr 1857; was buried , Hagey Cemetery, Cambridge, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
6. Elizabeth Scheirich was born 26 May 1795, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 27 Jun 1866; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario.
7. Eva Scheirich was born 16 Nov 1799, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died 13 Jul 1841, Blenheim Twp., Oxford Co., Ontario, Canada; was buried , Blenheim Mennonite Cemetery, Blenheim Township, Oxford Co., Ontario.
8. Veronica Scheirich was born Abt 1804, , Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown.