Genealogy / Schneider from Lodz - a mystery! [11]

Hi all,

I am seeking information on my mother's line. Here is the info we have from marriage record, travel ship manifest, censuses, death certificate.

Joseph Schneider, b in Lodz Poland 26 Jan 1862. Various sources say "Russia" or Russland, Poland. He stated Lodz Poland. He was a (Silk) weaver. I discovered the name of his silk mill in paterson nj!

Immigrated via Hamburg to NYC 4 June 1882, age 20. Naturalized April 1887. Married another immigrant in 1895; know details of his wife & their children. Story goes he "abandoned them." And that he was "raised Catholic." Death record is 1920; last child with wife was in 1914.

On marriage certificate he listed parents Anton Schneider and Barbara Michel, from Germany.

I can find none of them. We have no details.

I did find parents with those names where the years could work but all the way in Luxembourg, where that entire line lived and died. Lodz is so far away. They did not have a "Joseph."

Might anyone have some good ideas?

I have exhausted familysearch and ancestry within parameters I can deduct.

Thanks in advance!! I am new to this.