Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Rotterdam

I, Fill Lucas, Master of the Steamship Rotterdam, do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Collection District of New York is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said Steamship, Rotterdam at Rotterdam from which port said Steamship Rotterdam has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.
Sworn to this 6 March 1879 So help me God.
Before me ???????? (signature unreadable), Fill Lucas

List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Steamship Rotterdam whereof BAN (initials) Fill Lucas is Master, from Rotterdam burthen 1692 tons.

Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, Country to which they severally belong, Country of which they intend to become inhabitants, part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage..

    
 1  Carl Lambert          29  M Merchant  Germany    U S of America  Second Cabin
 2  Heinrich Schwab       40  M Farmer    Germany    U S of America  Second Cabin
 3  Apolonia Schwab       20  F   -       Germany    U S of America  Second Cabin
 4  Bertha Haas           17  F   -       Germany    U S of America  Second Cabin
 5  Veronica Goeh         24  F   -       Germany    U S of America  Steerage
 6* Hermann Faln          28  M Landlord  Germany    U S of America  Steerage
 7* Simon Hooapp          22  M Landlord  Germany    U S of America  Steerage
 8  Philipp Gerhard       26  M Butcher   Germany    U S of America  Steerage
 9  Hermann Schreiber     23  M Smith     Germany    U S of America  Steerage
10  Hermann Winter        22  M Mason     Germany    U S of America  Steerage
11  Corn Holtrop          33  M Labourer  Netherland U S of America  Steerage
12  John van Hammer       33  M Merchant  Netherland U S of America  Steerage
13* Alax Rappaport        21  M Priest    Gulicig    U S of America  Steerage
14* Bernardus Hoch        18  M   -       Netherland U S of America  Second Cabin


Transcriber's Notes:

* indicates an omission or error made by the original recorder.
? indicates a word or letters that could not be read, due to quality of 
  original document.

Passenger numbers have been added to aid with referencing.
There were no births or deaths on this passage, therefore the 
  birth/death column has been eliminated.

 6-7 Landlord may be Lanslord
13 Name Rappaport may be Rappapord
14 Hock may be age 10.    

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 416, List 200.

Transcribed by Bob Kroeker for the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 28 January 1999

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