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Schroer & Schraer Families in Cincinnati Area

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This group is for discussion of families of the name Schroer or Schraer (and other variants) in the Cincinnati area (Hamilton County, Ohio, and adjacent areas in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana).

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Schroer & Schraer Families in the Cincinnati-Area

Origins of Cincinnati-Area Schroer & Schraer Families

August Bernard Schroer (1868-1944); married 1890 Mary Kemper (1865-1935); From Recke, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, to US c. 1884, to Cincinnati by 1887. (In the 1900 Census his family name is incorrectly entered as "Rohrer".) Laborer, driver, tobacco manufacturer. Married offspring includes August J. Schroer (to Hilda E. Faigle), Joseph C. Schroer (to Marie Corry), Aloysius H. Schroer (to Ottilia A. Klein), Edwin A. Schroer (to Lucille Martin and Mae Alma Rice), and Frank C. Schroer (to Helen Diehl).

Bernard Schraer (1829-1891); married 1854 Theresa Kisker (1823-1893); From Brochterbeck, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, to Boston by 1854, to Newport KY by 1856, to Cincinnati by 1858, back to Newport c.1880. Probably brother of Gerhard Schraer (1828-1888) (below). Laborer, teamster, saloon keeper. Married offspring includes Mary Schraer (to Andrew Wolfzorn), Joseph Lawrence Schraer (to Edith Theresa Wilson), and Henry J. Schraer (to Durilla Malloy).

Bernard Joseph Schroer (1826-1901); married 1850 Mary Angela Klingmann; from Ibbenbüren, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, to US 1847, to Cincinnati by 1850. Laborer, plasterer, funeral director. Married offspring includes Carolina Schroer (to Theodore Homer), Frances Schroer (to Henry Eismann), and Anthony L. Schroer (to Mary Hudepohl).

Gerhard Schraer (1828-1888); married 1851 Elisabeth Lehnhof (c.1830-1886); From Brochterbeck, Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia, to USA 1848, to Cincinnati by 1851, to Newport KY by 1856, back to Cincinnati by 1858. Probably brother of Bernard Schraer (1829-1891) (above). Laborer, grocer, coppersmith, teamster. Married offspring includes Mary Schraer (to Henry Koeppens), Elizabeth Schraer (to Christoph Roetgermann), and Joseph Schraer (to Anna Bresser and Elizabeth Johanna Koob).

Henry Schraer (c.1837-1885); married by 1867 Barbara (Schroeder) Baumann (c.1834-1890); from Kingdom of Hanover, to Cincinnati by c.1867, to Lawrenceburg IN by 1870, back to Cincinnati by 1879. (In the 1870 Census his surname is entered as "Scher" and in 1880 as "Schreer".) Laborer, stone sawyer. Married offspring includes Benjamin E. Schraer (to Ellen O'Neil and Minnie Schalk Moeller) and Michael Robert Schraer (to Florence Crusoe and Catherine E. Lippert). There may be others as well.

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Comment by Erich Schraer on July 9, 2009 at 10:39am: I set this group up to discuss the Schroer and Schraer families in the Cincinnati area. The two main versions of the name are often interchangeable in the 19th century, and sometimes even into the 20th century.

In Germany the name was most commonly seen as Schröer and Schräer, and it seems to have originated in at least part of the area where the Westphalian dialect of Low German (also called Low Saxon) was spoken. It is a derivative of the more general (and much more common) Low German name Schröder or Schräder.

Quite a number of distinct families of this name ended up in, or went through, the Cincinnati area. In subsequent comments I'll try to identify some of these families.

--Erich Schraer