Ship Isabella
I, Jurgen Meyer do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear, that the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs for the District of New York, contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the Brem Ship Isabella whereof I am Master, from Bremen So help me God. (signed) Jurgen Meyer
Sworn to this 4 of October 1837 Before me (illegible signature)
LIST OR MANIFEST of all the Passengers taken on board the Brem Ship Isabella whereof Jurgen Meyer is Master, from Bremen ____________ burthen 301 tons
Columns represent: Names, Age (years and months), Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The Country in which they intend to become inhabitants, and Died on the voyage.
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1* G. Riecke 31 Male Merchant United States of America
2* Jacob Schroder 30 Male Merchant United States of America
3* Jacob Cordes 34 Male Merchant United States of America
4* Johannes Muhlhauser 33 Male ???????? Wurtemberg New-York
5* Maximilian Oertel 26 Male ???????? Bavaria New-York
6 Louis Nallau 27 Male ???????? Saxony ????????
7* Emil Mathieu 23 Male ???????? Baden New-York
8 Heinrich Scholl 29 Male Physician Saxony New-York
9 T. F. Hofmann 57 Male Merchant Bavaria New-York
10* Clara Hoveler 58 Female Hannover Pensylvania
11 Clara Hoveler 25 Female Hannover Pensylvania
12* W. H. Nolle 20 Male Merchant Hannover New-York
13* Aug. Hoffmann 28 Male Lawyer Lippe-Detmold New-York
14 Catharine Adelheid Gottker 56 Female Hannover New-York
15 J. A. Rast 42 Male Coachman Saxony New-York
16 J. Tondorf 30 Male Tinker Saxony New-York
17 Caspar Reinhardt 26 Male Tailor Saxony New-York
18 Michel Eckert 39 Male Labourer Saxony New-York
19 Aug. Wolfram 28 Male Ploughman Saxony New-York
20 Christian Koll 35 Male Mason Saxony New-York
21 Carl Langhammer 32 Male Mason Saxony New-York
22* Jacob Zeitz 26 Male (see note) Saxony New-York
23* Johann Beyer 29 Male (see note) Saxony New-York
24 Johann Bundnagel 50 Male Labourer Saxony New-York
25 Heinrich Guntsche 35 Male Mason Saxony New-York
26 Peter Mender 24 Male (see note) Saxony New-York
27 Caspar Russwurm 42 Male (see note) Saxony New-York
28* J. H. Franz 40 Male Preacher England New-York
29 J. H. Uthoff 19 Male Shoemaker Hannover New-York
30 Peter Brandt 24 Male Saddler Denmark New-York
31 G. F. Rosentreter 24 Male Labourer Hannover New-York
32 G. F. Bohm 37 Male Ploughman Bavaria New-York
33 Heinr. Pohlmann 27 Male Baker Bavaria New-York
34 J. H. Owenstacke 36 Male Miller Hannover New-York
35 Cord Muller 24 Male Labourer Hannover New-York
36 Cord Otten 25 Male Labourer Hannover New-York
37 Johann Schroder 39 Male Labourer Hannover New-York
38 Wilhelm Prasuhn 24 Male Coachman Bremen New-York
39 Andreas Hanft 27 Male Ploughman Bavaria Ohio
40 Barbara Hanft 22 Female Bavaria Ohio
41 Wilhelm Hanft 1y6m Male Bavaria Ohio
42 Johann Hanft 57 Male Ploughman Bavaria Ohio
43 Barbara Hanft 50 Female Bavaria Ohio
44 Barbara Hanft 21 Female Bavaria Ohio
45 Caspar Hanft 17 Male Bavaria Ohio
46 Eva Hanft 15 Female Bavaria Ohio
47 Ursulina Hanft 12 Female Bavaria Ohio
48 Andreas Hanft 28 Male Tailor Bavaria Ohio
49 Anna Hanft 27 Female Bavaria Ohio
50 Michael Friedel 48 Male Ploughman Bavaria Ohio
51 Margaretha Friedel 48 Female Bavaria Ohio
52 Marie Friedel 24 Female Bavaria Ohio
53 Christine Friedel 20 Female Bavaria Ohio
54 Benedict Friedel 17 Male Bavaria Ohio
55 Agnese Friedel 14 Female Bavaria Ohio
56 Barbara Friedel 10 Female Bavaria Ohio
57 Andreas Kirchner 23 Male Ploughman Bavaria Ohio
58 Agnes Weigand 33 Female Bavaria Ohio
59 Friedrich Wiegel 31 Male Weaver Hessia Ohio
60 Elisabeth Gertrud Wiegel 58 Female Hessia Ohio
61 Ludwig Grupe 22 Male Cabin Maker Lippe Buckeburg Ohio
62 Friedrich Prasuhn 27 Male Coachman Bremen Ohio
63 Philippine Prasuhn 24 Female Bremen Ohio
64 Johann Hanft 23 Male Ploughman Bavaria Ohio
65 Johann Wordschmidt 23 Male Cabin-maker Bavaria Pensylvania
66 Margaretha Bruckner 31 Female Saxony Pensylvania
67* Bernhardt Wienholft 37 Male Ploughman Oldenburg Pensylvania
68 Maria Wienholft 37 Female Oldenburg Pensylvania
69 Margaretha Wienholft 13 Female Oldenburg Pensylvania
70 Elisabeth Wienholft 11 Female Oldenburg Pensylvania
71 Bernhard Wienholft 9 Male Oldenburg Pensylvania
72 Maria Wienholft 7 Female Oldenburg Pensylvania
73 Meinhard Wienholft 55 Male Oldenburg Pensylvania
74 J. Heinrich Toben 38 Male Oldenburg Ohio
75 Thecla Margarethe Toben 32 Female Oldenburg Ohio
76 Wilhelm Toben 5 Male Oldenburg Ohio
77 Angela Toben 2y6m Female Oldenburg Ohio
78 H. B. Kotter 38 Male Ploughman Oldenburg Ohio
79 Anna Amalia Kotter 36 Female Oldenburg Ohio
80 Amalie Elisabeth Kotter 1 Female Oldenburg Ohio
81* J. Lambert Kerfliens 22 Male Ploughman Oldenburg Ohio
82 J. H. Dorlage 24 Male Shoemaker Oldenburg Ohio
83 Heinr. Ortenwesch 24 Male Ploughman Oldenburg Ohio
84 Maria Elisabeth Kalbelage 57 Female Oldenburg Pensylvania
85 Herm. Heinr. Kalbelage 28 Male Oldenburg Pensylvania
86* Catharina Margar. Kalbelage 19 Female Oldenburg Pensylvania
87 Clemens Kalbelage 15 Male Oldenburg Pensylvania
88 Anton Albert Braunhold 26 Male Brewer Hannover Pensylvania
89 Julie Braunhold 22 Female Hannover Pensylvania
90 Sebastian Neuburger 38 Male Ploughman Bavaria Pensylvania
91 Sebastian Braun 28 Male Veterinarian Bavaria Pensylvania
92 Anna Maria Hofmann 29 Female Bavaria Pensylvania
93 Heinrich Riecke 19 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
94 Hinrich Riecke 20 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
95 Martin Doscher 26 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
96 Conrad Oldenburg 18 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
97 Ludwig Gerdes 19 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
98 Wilhelm Seebeck 34 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
99* Meta Melchings 25 Female Hannover South Caroline
100* J. M. Henken 28 Male Baker United States of America
101 Joh. Meierhoff 16 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
102 Catharine Meierhoff 14 Female Hannover South Caroline
103* Johann Bottier 18 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
104 Louise Steinmann 20 Female Hannover South Caroline
105 Martin Schriefer 24 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
106 Mangels Wellbrock 27 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
107 J. H. Dreyer 21 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
108 Fr. Schroder 34 Male Smith Hannover South Caroline
109 Berends Schroder 20 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
110 Claus Renner 23 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
111 Berend Halsberge 22 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
112 Joh. Fink 18 Male Labourer Hannover South Caroline
113 Wilh. Schachte 19 Male Labourer Prussia South Caroline
114 Heinr. Kitzmeyer 67 Male Ploughman Lippe Detmold South Caroline
115 August Kitzmeyer 25 Male Ploughman Lippe Detmold South Caroline
116 Clemens Hoveler 27 Male Ploughman Hannover Pensylvania
117 Hermann Hoveler 19 Male Ploughman Hannover Pensylvania
118 August Hoveler 17 Male Ploughman Hannover Pensylvania
119 Friedr. Rothe 47 Male Labourer Bavaria Pensylvania
(signed) Jurgen Meyer
Transcriber's Notes:
* Asterisks indicate transcriber's notes.
? Question marks indicate illegible letters
* Passenger numbers were added by the transcriber for reference.
* There were no entries in the Died on the Voyage column.
* Parts of the list had "do" between changes of passenger destinations, while
others are blank for from one to a dozen lines. Where none was shown, the
last destination written out has been listed, on assumption the listmaker
just got tired of writing "do".
Passenger Notes:
* Surnames of the following passengers had umlauts:
Over a = 4
Over o = 10, 14, 32, 37, 108-109, 116-118
Over u = 4, 25, 35, 66
#1 to #3 - Residence listed as Charleston in Spengemann book (see link).
# 4 and # 5 - Occupation of #4 is too dim to read, and #5 has "do". Word
appears to be something like "Mitionary" (Missionary?).
# 6 - Name not legible but obtained from Spengemann book (see link).
Occupation and destination deleted by holes in list.
# 7 - Residence listed as Cassel in Spengemann book (see link)
Occupation is very dim, but possibly Musician or similar.
#10 and #11 - Residence listed as Ankum and #10 listed as widow in
Spengemann book (see link)
#12 - Residence listed as Esen b. Osnabrück in Spengemann book (see link)
#13 - Residence listed as Lemgo in Spengemann book (see link)
#22 and #23 - Occupations = Printer of Copperplates. (Too long for
transcription space)
#26 and #27 - Occupations = Printer of Copperplates. (Too long for
transcription space)
#28 - Residence listed as Helgoland in Spengemann book (see link)
#38 - Name partly obscured but but obtained from Spengemann book (see link)
#50 to #56 - End of name deleted by hole but obtained from Spengemann
book (see link)
#67 - Surname spelled Wienholt in Spengemann book (see link)
#81 - Surname spelled Kerlin in Spengemann book (see link)
#86 - Middle name written out Margaretha in original (too long for
transcription column)
#99 - Surname spelled Menkings in Spengemann book (see link)
#100- Residence listed as New York in Spengemann book (see link)
#103- Surname spelled Bottjer in Spengemann book (see link)
Personal Note:
#35 was Cord Müller from Fischerhude, Hanover. He migrated west to St Louis,
married Gretje Mahnken from Wilstedt, Hanover there in 1839, and joined his
widowed mother Gesche, older brother Peter, and twin brother John Henry, who
had immigrated 1838, at a new German settlement in the Cole Camp area of
Benton County, Missouri. In mid 1840s, Cord and Gretje moved north to
southeast Pettis County, and again to adjoining northwest Morgan County in
1850s. During the turbulent Civil War years, the family moved to St Clair
County, Illinois where Gretje apparently died. Cord and some of the children
later returned, and Cord is known to have resided in Smithton, Missouri 1880s,
but his final fate remains unknown. Cord and Gretje's daughter Catherine
Margaret Mueller, born in Benton County 1843, was a greatgrandmother of the
transcriber. (See also German Immigrants)
Correspondence 06/10/01 passengers #39-49 and 64 HANFT
No. 64, Johann Hanft, is my great grandfather. His parents were Nos. 42
and 43, Johann and Barbara (Beckert) Hanft. They emigrated in 1837 from
the Burkardroth area of Bavaria.
I do not know where Johann and Barbara Hanft (Nos. 42 and 43) finally
settled, probably New Orleans, Louisiana, for that is where some of
their grandchildren were born. Johann Hanft (No. 64), my grgrandfather,
finally settled in Galena, Illinois about 1850, but some of his children
were born in New Orleans. He died in Galena in 1870.
Two of Johann (No. 64) Hanft's siblings were living in Galena in 1850.
They were Andreas Hanft (No. 39 or possibly 48), and Eva (Hanft) Heinfautz
(No. 46). Eva's child was born in New Orleans.
Wilhelm (Kasper W.) Hanft (No. 41), the son of Andreas was also living in
Galena in 1850, and the mother, Barbara, presumably a widow, was living
in Galena with her daughter Eva in 1850.
The Hanft family of three generations of emigrants to America is also
recorded in the book by Friedrich Spengemann: "Die Reisen der
Segelfregatten Isabella, Pauline, Meta und Uhland nach Nordamerika."
Nach Kapitan Jurgen Meyers Bordbuch, Buchdruckerei Vahland & Co.,
Bremen, 1937, Page 67. Phil Burnett
Pages of the book mentioned above, regarding the passengers on this ship,
can be seen by clicking
Title Page
Page 66
Page 67
Page 68
Correspondence 3/13/02 passenger #2 Schroder, #96 Melchings
Passenger 2, Jacob Schroder, on Ship Isabella from Bremen, Germany
to New York on 4 October 1837 was my great grand father. His first
wife was passenger 99, Meta Melchings, on the same ship.
I am a descendant from his third marriage to Metha Gesina Monzace.
Jacob was a prominent merchant in Charleston, SC. In 1850, he along
with General John A. Wagner and members of the German Colonization
Society founded the town of Walhalla, SC. Frances Schroder Plyler
Correspondence 07/30/2003 passengers #5
I (Norbert Oertel) believe that the 5th passenger on the list,
Maximilian Oertel, is one of the sons of my gr. gr. gr. grandfather
Dr. Eucharius Oertel.
Dr. Eucharius Oertel was born on 5/13/1765 in Streitberg (Bavaria,
Germany) and was married two times. With his first wife, Juliane (or
Johanna?) Muck, born in 1776, he had 8 children. The seventh child
was born on 5/1/1811 in Ansbach and given the name Johann Jakob
Maximilian, but he was called Maximilian. We knew that he emigrated
to the US and are glad that we found him on one of the passenger
lists now. We don't have any information about where he settled,
what happened to him and whether he had any children. Any hints are
welcome!
For more information about the ancestry and history of
Dr. Eucharius Oertel you can contact me by e-mail.
My address is nopps@nopps.de and my homepage is at www.nopps.de
Greetings from Munich, Germany,
Norbert Oertel
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 35.
Transcribed and Contributed by Homer R. Ficken for the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
26 April 2001
Formatted by Sharon Krisko a member of the
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