John Scheu

Abt 1845 - 1901  (~ 56 years)

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• Name	John Scheu
  Gender	Male
  Born	Abt 1845	Germany
  Died	1901	Kensington, Middlesex, England
  Person ID	I191	Richard's Genealogy
  Last Modified	3 Sep 2016

  
  

  Father	Heinrich Scheu,   b. Est 1815
  Siblings	1. John Scheu,   b. Abt 1845, Germany ,   d. 1901, Kensington, Middlesex, England
  Family ID	F156	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lucy Bass,   b. 1852, Felsted, Essex, England ,   d. 1913, Hackney, Middlesex, England  (Age 61 years)
  Married	20 Jan 1873	St James, Middlesex, England
  Children	1. Constance Amelia Scheu,   b. 1874, Marylebone, Middlesex, England + 2. Alberta Maud Scheu,   b. 16 Sep 1875, Marylebone, Middlesex, England + 3. Gertrude Scheu,   b. 8 Mar 1877, Marylebone, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1958, Bakewell district, Derbyshire, England  (Age 80 years) + 4. Ernest Heinrich Scheu,   b. 1881, Westminster district, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1965, Lewisham district, Kent, England  (Age 84 years)   5. Leonard John Scheu,   bp. 22 Apr 1883, St Andrew, Marylebone, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1883, Marylebone district, Middlesex, England + 6. Douglas Charles Scheu,   b. 24 Nov 1884, Marylebone, Middlesex, England ,   d. 4 Apr 1968, Lymington, Hampshire, England  (Age 83 years) + 7. Rose Elizabeth Scheu,   b. 8 Jan 1886, St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England ,   d. 3 Sep 1957, Wood Green, Middlesex, England  (Age 71 years)   8. Franceska Louise Scheu,   b. 5 Oct 1890, St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1970, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia  (Age 79 years)
  Last Modified	8 May 2020
  Family ID	F73	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  The earliest certain reference to John is his marriage in 1873 in the parish of St James Piccadilly. Later censuses all say he was born in Germany, but are no more specific than that, and consistently he put his date of birth sometime in 1843-45. John (or Johann as he was presumably born) was a tailor. There is a possible sighting of him on the 1871 census. A man only identified as "J.S.", a 26-year-old tailor from Berlin was in the county gaol in Cambridge. There was a separate borough gaol, and another for the Isle of Ely, so this suggests "J.S." was arrested somewhere in the south of the county, but outside Cambridge itself. I've no reason to place John in Cambridgeshire at this time, but his wife grew up in Felsted, Essex, only 15 miles from the Cambridgeshire border, or 30 miles from the gaol. It's possible they met in the area, and moved to London together. The name is not especially common in Germany, appearing 1202 times in the 1998 phone book, with the vast majority of entries being in the state of Baden-Württemberg, and a smaller cluster in Berlin. Most likely the name originated in Württemberg, and if John Scheu was from Berlin, probably he was born to a family recently moved there from Württemberg.