Johann Jacob SCHLAGINTWEIT

1743 - 1820  (77 years)

• Name	Johann Jacob SCHLAGINTWEIT
  Birth	11 Aug 1743	Nordheim, Wuerttemberg   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	11 Aug 1743	Nordheim, Wuerttemberg   [2]
  Death	25 Aug 1820	Head of St. Margaret's Bay, Halifax, NS   [3]
  Person ID	I1306	A Few Relatives of Bob and Mary Hegerich
  Last Modified	30 Apr 2020

  
  

  Father	Joseph SCHLAGINTWEIT,   b. Abt Nov 1709, Sternenfels, Wuerttemberg d. 5 Feb 1783, North West, Lunenburg, NS (Age ~ 73 years)
  Mother	Ursula Magdalena KELLER,   b. 24 Oct 1712, Durrenzimmern, Wuerttemberg d. Sep 1797, North West, Lunenburg, NS (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	27 Nov 1742	Durrenzimmern, Wuerttemberg   [4]
  Family ID	F678	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Margaret Elisabeth RIGOULEAUX,   b. Abt 1750, Montbeliard d. Between 1807 and 1820, Head of St. Margaret's Bay, Halifax, NS (Age ~ 57 years)
  Marriage	16 Dec 1766	Lunenburg County, NS   [5]
  Children	1. Frederica Elisabeth SLAUENWHITE,   b. 11 Jan 1768, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. 1780, Lunenburg County, NS (Age 11 years)   2. Johann Friedrich SLAUENWHITE,   b. 11 Mar 1769, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. Aft 1827, Lower Prospect, Halifax, NS (Age > 59 years)   3. Susannah Elisabeth SLAUENWHITE,   b. 13 Jul 1771, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. Yes, date unknown   4. Francisca Catharina SLAUENWHITE,   b. 29 Jan 1774, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. 3 May 1847, Hubbard's Cove, Halifax, NS (Age 73 years)   5. Johann Heinrich Matthaus SLAUENWHITE,   b. 5 Apr 1775, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. Between 1838 and 1851, Terence Bay, Halifax, NS (Age 62 years)   6. Maria Magdalena SLAUENWHITE,   b. 13 Oct 1777, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. Bef 1820, Mill Cove, Lunenburg, NS (Age < 42 years)   7. Johann Martin SLAUENWHITE,   b. 15 Nov 1779, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. Halifax County, NS   8. Johann Jacob SLAUENWHITE,   b. 15 Jan 1782, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. 3 Oct 1860, St. Margaret's Bay, NS (Age 78 years)   9. Maria Elisabetha SLAUENWHITE,   b. 3 May 1784, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. Aft 1844, St. Margaret's Bay, NS (Age > 61 years)   10. Johanna SLAUENWHITE,   b. 21 Mar 1786, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. Yes, date unknown   11. Maria Sophia SLAUENWHITE,   b. 29 Apr 1788, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. 1 May 1869, Terence Bay, Halifax, NS (Age 81 years)   12. Sophia Dorothea SLAUENWHITE,   b. 12 Nov 1790, North West, Lunenburg, NS d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F677	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  The land originally belonging to Joseph SLAUENWHITE was subdivided at his death, with Johann Friedrich receiving the old homestead and Johann Jacob building nearer the Lunenburg-Blockhouse road. In 1798, on the invitation of Governor Parr, Johann Jacob and other families of the district, e.g., members of the Dauphinee, Hubley, and Boutilier families, resettled to the St. Margaret's Bay area. [Source: “Pioneers of Lunenburg”, Lunenburg Progress-Enterprise, 14 Nov 1923] Stanwhite [Slaunwhite], Joseph 1790 Halifax County Memorialist has been an inhabitant of the province upwards of thirty years, and has never obtained any land from government and requests a grant in family proportion near Sambro Harbour. Has a wife and ten children. 100 acres. [Memorial] And here is the story, as best it can be pieced together, of how a number of his descendants became HARRIE's, MARTIN's and HOOPER's. Back in the 1830's, three brothers--Johann Heinrich Matthaus [later nicknamed Harry], Johann Martin, and Johan Friedrich SCHLAGINTWEIT [which was corrupted to SLAUENWHITE or SLAUNWHITE], came to Terence Bay from the St. Margaret's Bay area where their father had settled.  BeCAUSe they and their children were prolific, by the 1870's a significant percentage of the population of Terence Bay was surnamed SLAUENWHITE and so you could have any number of inhabitants with the same name, i.e., John SLAUENWHITE. To address the confusion, they adopted a device first used by the St. Margaret's Bay BOUTILIER's, i.e., they would append their father's or grandfather's given or nickname as their middle name.  So the various John SLAUENWHITE's would be known [using the above example] as John Martin SLAUENWHITE, John Harry SLAUENWHITE, or (for reasons I won't bore you with) John Hooper SLAUENWHITE.  But there was another problem as well. Since the SLAUENWHITE's were a significant percentage of the Terence Bay population, many of them were each other's first or second cousins and finding a spouse to whom you were not closely related was a problem, given the relative isolation of the Terence Bay area.  Some people succeeded, but others didn't and so something had to be done about the church's prohibition regarding marrying someone who was within six degrees of consanguinity (i.e. a second cousin or closer). Now at the time, roughly half the Terence Bay population was Anglican and, with a few exceptions, the other half was Catholic.  If you were Catholic and wanted to marry your cousin, it apparently wasn't a problem as the Parish Register, Our Lady of Mount Carmel (the local Catholic Church) records a "dispensation for degree of consanguinity" in a number of marriage records.  But not so if you were Anglican. For whatever reason, the local Anglican clergy were seemingly not as flexible.  So the couple would go to Halifax where they were not known, obtain a license, and get married.  Apparently to avoid suspicion , the groom would give his adopted middle name--Harry, Martin, or Hooper--as his surname, with one exception; i.e., since there were no HARRY families in NS he would use HARRIE. When the happy couple returned to Terence Bay, they might or might not continue to use the surname they gave in Halifax. Then apparently others, who saw it as a way avoid the confusion first mentioned above, adopted the practice as well.  To make matters even more confusing, some of those who adopted the alias later abandoned it and went back to being SLAUENWHITE's.  And to add the final element of confusion, the census-taker, who knew they were all SLAUENWHITE's, didn't start recording the new surnames immediately, even though the family may have permanently adopted them.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1091] Evang. KB Nordheim, FHL Film #1184757, Taufen Book, page 170. [S1091] Evang. KB Nordheim, FHL Film #1184757, Birth Book, page 170. [S759] Deed From Martin & Frederick Slaugenwhite to John, Copy provided by Brenda Maruca. [S1044] Evang. KB Durrenzimmern, FHL Film #1184787, Ehe Book (1733-1808). [S9263] Parish Register, St. John's Anglican Church--Lunenburg.