Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild
Semiramis
Germany to Texas
18 August 1845
Captain: Capt. Otto
Departed: Unknown Germany
Arrived: Texas 18 August 1845
List of all the Passengers taken on board the Semiramis,
under Captain Otto.
1 Johann Peter Post and wife, Maria, nee Gobel, and daughters, Christine
and Catherina, and sons Friedrich Heinrich and Ludwig, from Roth, Nassau
2 Johann Heinrich Deker and wife, Catherina, nee Peter, and sons, Jost
Heinrich, Johann Jost, and daughter, Liza, from Roth, Nassau
3 August Lenz and wife, son, Jost Heinrich and daughter, Louise, from
Driedorf, Nassau
4 Christ. Heinr. Rompf and wife, Georgia, nee Houstein, and son, August
and daughters, Susanna, Johanna and Cecilie, from Roth, Nassau
5 Johannes Scholl and wife, Marie, nee Petri, and sons, Heinrich and Adam
and daughter, Margaretha, from Bergebersback, Nassau
6 Heinrich Bitter and wife, Charlotte, nee Reb, and sons, Heinrich, Franz,
Philipp, Wilhelm, Friedrich, and daughters, Caroline and Elas, from
Dillenburg, Nassau
7 August Reb from Dillenburg, Nassau
8 Heinrich Meusebach from Dillenburg, Nassau
9 Johann Friedrich Brau and wife, Marie, nee Reb, and sons, Friedrich and
Christian from Dillenburg, Nassau
10 Wilhelm Meckel from Dillenburg, Nassau
11 Jacob Aurand and wife, Elisa, nee Nickel and sons, Jacob, Friedrich,
Wilhelm, and daughters, Christina and Wilhelmina Christma from
Steinbricker, Nassau
12 Johann Schaumann from Fischelbach, Nassau
13 Friedrich B. Reede and wife, Elizabeth, nee Martin, from Eibelschausen,
Nassau
14 Heinrich Weber and Johann Jung, from Hesselback, Nassau
15 Heinrich Strackbein and wife and daughters, Elisa and Christina, and sons,
Johann and Christian, from Braunhausen, Nassau
16 Heinrich Eckhardt, from Steinbrucken
17 Johann Kneiber and wife, Catherina, nee Glass, and sons, Jacob, Carl
and Franz and daughter, Marie, from Uckerdorf, Nassau
18 John. Christ. Reis and wife, Catherina, and sons, Ferdinand, Gustav
Christian, and Julius; daughter, Wilhelmine
19 Martin Marguard and wife, and daughter, Wilhelmine, and sons,
Gustac, Adolf, and Ferdinand, from Willingen, Nassau
20 Philipp Fellers and wife, and sons, Carl and Wilhelm
21 Carl Usener and wife, Catherina, nee Harzfeld, and sons, Jacob,
Heinrich and Ludwig Wilhelm, from Dillenburg, Nassau
22 Heinrich Stiehl and wife, Catherina, nee Sommer, and sons, Heinrich,
Wilhelm Christian, Johannes Heinrich; and daughter, Georgina, from
Obersheid, Nassau
23 Johannes Moos and wife, Eliza, nee Goling, and sons, Jacob, Leonard,
Johann H. C., and Leonhard, Johannes Christ, from Offdillin, Nassau
24 Joh. Conrad Peter, and Johannes and Johann Heinrich, from Merkelbach,
Nassau
25 Catherina Klees, from Merkelbach, Nassau
26 Carl V. Jvonsky from Ruckers, Schleisien
27 Carl Bardenwerfer from Braumschweig
28 Clemens Middeldorf from Breslau, Preussen
29 Julius Splittgerber from Ruckers, Schleisien
30 Julius Keliner, from Braumachweig
This SHIP LIST was translated by Hermann Seele of San Antonio, Texas from the German Year Book (31st issue), published by the New Braunfels Zeitung for 1936, being a supplement to the regular issue of the New Braunfels Zeitung, dated Thursday, July 9, 1936.
The German newspaper (Zeitung) was founded November 12, 1852.
Retyped with the permission of the
San Antonio Genealogical and Historical Society
as published in "Our Heritage"
Volume VI, Number 1
Transcribed by Joan Renfrow a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
16 June 2000
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