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Hello everyone,
First of all I would like to apoligize for my bad english, I am french, nevertheless I hope you' ll understand me.
I' m looking for informations about a Schaff family which is perhaps living in Alabama.
My connection with this family is as follows : my name is Bruno Escoubès, my mother calls Thérèse Soulier, her mother ( she died last year ) called Marguerite Schild. She was daughter of Charles Auguste Schild ( 1878 - 1933 ), son of André Schild ( 1849 - 1921 ) whose mother ( once widow or divorced I don' t know ) married secondly with a man named Schaff and they moved in Alabama ( or maybe he was from Alabama ? ). They had children because my mother told me that during the World War II they received a packet with food and clothes from these cousins. Unfortunely they had no more contacts thereafter and my grand-mother was very secret about her own family so I have so few informations.
Some french history to help people who search the origin of the name " Schaff " : there is a small part of France in the north and east called Alsace-Lorraine that has always been a field of conflict beetwen Germany and France, in fact it has been a land autonome ( ruled by the dukes of Lorraine ) until the XVIII.th century. The people there speaks french but a lot of them speaks or understands a local language very near of the German. They have also a culture and traditions quite similar and in the years 1870' s it was surely everyone that had a double-culture. Well, in the year 1870 there was a war beetwen the french Second Empire and the Prussia ruled by king William the first. In 40 days Napoleon the third whas defeated and Prussia ( which later became the German Empire ) annexed Alsace and Lorraine for fifty years ( it is the main reason because France and Germany made war during World War I in 1914 - 1918, at the end of which in 1919 the Versailles traities gave Alsace-Lorraine back to France ). Lot of people didn' t want to become german citizen and move to other regions of France ( like my Schild ancesters ) or in other countries ( the father of the Marx brothers was from Strasbourg for instance ), there was surely some " Schaff " among them. All the french Schaffs didn' t move, it is still a name that you can find principaly - but not only - in these regions, maybe 500 stay in France today. You can also find it in Germany of course, Austria and Switzerland ( the main part of Switzeland is german-speaking ).
I think that my great-great-grand-father André Schild ( the one who moved but stayed in France ) didn' t want to become German and moved at the age of 22 - 25 years. His mother ( I don' t know her name, only that she was a teacher ) married a man name Schaff ( also an alsacian ) and they move in Alabama. That is the way I think things may have happened but I' m not certain about it. If anybody can help me to connect me with my american cousins it will be great.
Thanks to everyone !
My courriel : bruno-escoubes@wanadoo.fr
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