Immigrant Ships
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Ship Asia

I, F. Meyerdirck, Master of the Ship Asia of Bremen do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear that the annexed List, subscribed with my name, contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account or report of all the passengers who have been taken on board the said ship at Bremen or any other Foreign Port, or at sea, and brought in the said vessel into any District of the United States since her departure from the said Port of Bremen.
Sworn to, this 3rd day of November 1873 F. Meyerdirck
Before me, ? ? Reese (port authority)

Report and Manifest of all Passengers taken on board of the Ship Asia of Bremen whereof F. Meyerdirck is master and with a burthen of 877 tons built at Mot???, State of Germany and bound for Baltimore with Passengers was taken on bord at Bremen.

Columns represent: passenger name, gender, age, occupation. (The columns for nationality and destination have been omitted in this list because all passengers were listed as from Germany with Baltimore as their destination.

 1  Ferdinand Howe       m 35        farmer
 2  Caroline Howe        f 29
 3  Wilhelm Howe         m  4
 4  Auguste Howe         f  3
 5  Heinrich Stuff       m 17        farmer
 6  Auguste Stuff        f 24
 7  Casper Reinbeck      m 36
 8  Elisabeth Reinbeck   f 30
 9  Catarina Reinbeck    f  4
10  Friedrich Reinbeck   m  3
11  Conrad Reinbeck      m  2
12  Heinrich Reinbeck    m    10mo
13* Friedrick ?und       m 42
14  Ernst Hund           m 13
15  ???er Hund           m 10
16  Lina Hund            f  8
17  Minna Hund           f  6
18  Albert Hund          m  4
19  Auguste Hund         f  3
20  Lina Ropetter        f 19
21  Terese Werneberg     f 17
22  Rosina Kieske        f 40
23  Emilie Kieske        f 14
24  Wilhelmine Kieske    f  7
25  Auguste Kieske       f  4
26  Rosina Duska         f 42
27  Anna Duska           f 12
28  Joseph Duska         m  7
29  Alwine Duska         f  4
30  Agnes Duska          f    10mo
31  Heinrich Meyer       m 64        farmer
32  Catrine Meyer        f 59
33  Joseph Meyer         m 27        farner
34  Elisabeth Meyer      f 24
35  Bernhard Meyer       m 17
36  Marie Meyer          f    10mo
37* J??  ?????           f ??
38* J?????? ?????????    f ??
39  Elisabeth Breithauer f 18
40  Magdalena Breithauer f 11
41  Carolina Kempf       f 48
42  August Rosenbaum     m 26        farmer
43  Simon Hundemer       m 28        farmer
44  Magdalena Hundemer   f 22
45  Gurtina Hundemer     f    10mo
46  Simon Harelkorn      m 17        farmer
47  Louis Schinckebier   m 22        farmer


Transcriber's Notes:

A question mark (?) indicates indecipherable material.
An asterisk (*) indicates further information in these footnotes.

Passenger Notes:
13    First letter of surname blurred by defective original--may be "R"
      or "H" as in the succeeding entries, so name may be Hund or Rund.
      If there was an occupation listed, it too is obliterated on the
      original.
37    Name is obliterated by defective original--first letter of given
      name may be J.  Age looks like 35 and gender is female.
38    Upper half of letters for this entry are obliterated by a defect
      in the original list. The given name looks like it may be Johanna.
      The age seems to be 43 or 48--gender is definetely female.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M255, Reel 22.

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