Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Studebaker (and variant spellings) families in America. Focus is mainly on (but not limited to) the brothers Peter (Peder), Clemens (Clements), and Heinrich Stottenbecker (Studebaker), who emigrated from Palatinate Germany to Philadelphia in 1736. They settled in York and Cumberland Counties in Pennsylvania, and in Washington County, Maryland. Many descendants lived in Ohio;...

Zebulon Currie was born in 1795 at Waterborough, New Brunswick. His wife, Lavenia Currie, was born in 1798 at Burton, New Brunswick. They had ten children, 1822-1844; the oldest born at Gagetown, the others at Frederickton, New Brunswick. The family moved to Prince William in 1851 and back to Frederickton in 1858. Lavenia Currie died at Frederickton in 1865.

John (Johannes) Schunk (1851-1907) was born at Webenheim, Rheinland, Germany, the son of Christian Shunk (1802-1880) and Sophia Bender Shunk (1812-1887). He immigrated to the United States in 1868 and married Christina Zimerman (1860-1888), daughter of Christian and Barbara Kinsinger Zimmerman, in 1881 in Taswell County, Illinois. They had four children, 1881-1885. He married 2) Lottie W. Soady (1893-after 1900), a widow with one child, in 1893 in...

William Runchey was born 1803 in Ireland to possibly William Runchey and Ellen Carlish. About 1838 he married Esther Flemming Dunning, who was born 1807 in Ireland. They came to Canada around 1844, and first appear in the 1861 census for Bruce Co., Huron Twp., Ontario, Canada. William Runchey died in 1888 and his wife Esther died in 1890. Most descendants live in Canada, but some also in the United States in Washington, California, Michigan and elsewhere. Includes...

Conrad Gunter, a German in the British Navy, retired and settled in Warwick, New York in 1753, and later moved to St. John, New Brunswick and still later returned to New York. His son, John Gunter (1793- 1876) married Nancy Ann(?) Currey and lived in Queens County, New Brunswick. Descendants lived in New Brunswick and elsewhere. Some descendants of Conrad lived in New York and elsewhere in the United States.

David Irwin, of Scottish lineage, married Margaret Berry in 1725, and they had a family of eight boys and three daughters. Six of the sons immigrated to the English colonies (chiefly Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia and Ohio). Richard Irwin (1740-ca.1812), one of the six sons, immigrated to New London, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and married Ann Steele in 1764. He later moved to the frontier in Northumberland (later Union) County, Pennsylvania,...

Daniel Conoly and his wife Nancy Anna Campbell Conoly migrated from the Isles of Islay and Jura to the port of Wilmington, N.C. and settled near the town of Lumber-Bridge, Robeson County, N.C. in the late 1700's. Their marriage record was found in the old parochial registers of Bowmore and Kildalton in Islay. They were married on the 23rd of June 1792. One or more of their children were born in Islay, Scotland. The family is registered in the 1800...