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Ship Magdalene
I, H. Henke, Master of the Bremen Ship Magdalene, 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 Customs of the Collection District of New Orleans, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said ship at Bremen from which port said ship 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. So help me God. (signed) H. Henke
Sworn to this 5th day of Nov. 1859 Before me (signed) Thomas Shields, Coltr.
List or Manifest Of all the Passengers taken on board the Bremen Ship Magdalene whereof Henke is Master, from Bremen burthen 1274 tons.
Columns represent: Passenger number*, Names, Age (years and months), Sex, Occupation, The country to which they severally belong, The country in which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the Voyage* , Part of the vessel they occupied* .
Cabin Passengers
1 Ph. Preetorius 38y 2m Male Tanner Germany Indiana
2 Anna Bart 32 Female Germany Indiana
3 Anna Preetorius 12 Female Germany Indiana
4 Wilhelm Preetorius 9y 6m Male Germany Indiana
5 Louise Preetorius 7y 6m Female Germany Indiana
6 Marie Preetorius 66 Female Germany Indiana
7 Elise Preetorius 5 Female Germany Indiana
8 Phillip Preetorius 3 Male Germany Indiana
9 Auguste Preetorius 2 Female Germany Indiana
10 Alvin Grimmer 19y 6m Male Merchant Germany Louisiana
11 L. Heldman 23y 6m Male Merchant New Orleans New Orleans
12 Anna Kuchler 21 Female New Orleans New Orleans
Steerage Passengers
13 Catharine Tanners 35 Female Alabama Alabama
14 Heinrich Tanners 9y 6m Male Germany Alabama
15 Rebecca Tanners 8 Female Germany Alabama
16 Margaretha Freymuth 68 Female Germany Alabama
17 Joh. Died^ch Tanners 0y 6m Male Alabama Alabama
18 Claus Stockmann 32 Male Blacksmith Germany Alabama
19 Hinrich Strocker 22 Male Laborer Germany Alabama
20 Rebecca Muller 22 Female Servant Germany Alabama
21 Gerh^d H^ch Lammert 46 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
22 Cath. Elise Ellinghaus 52 Female Germany Missouri
23 Joh. Math. Lammert 16 Male Germany Missouri
24 Margarethe Elisabeth Lammert 13 Female Germany Missouri
25 Eber. H^ch Kamper 52 Male Farmer Germany Indiana
26 Marie Elisabeth Kamper 22 Female Servant Germany Indiana
27 Berradine Kamper 17 Female Germany Indiana
28 Adam Heinrich Kamper 15 Male Germany Indiana
29 Gerhard H^ch Kamper 9 Male Germany Indiana
30 Christoph H^ch Fosskuhler 41 Male Engineer Germany Missouri
31 Juliane Allendorf 31 Female Germany Missouri
32 Elise Fosskuhler 8 Female Germany Missouri
33 Marie Fosskuhler 5 Female Germany Missouri
34 Anna Fosskuhler 3 Female Germany Missouri
35 Maria Pohler 23 Female Germany Missouri
36 Catharine Elisabeth Beckmann 17 Female Servant Germany Missouri
37 Helene Abel 78 Female Germany Missouri
38* Heinrich Kater 33 Male ?????? Missouri Missouri
39 Anna Marie Kater 23 Female Servant Germany Missouri
40 Mathaus Slepper 22 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
41 Hermann Slepper 27 Male Carpenter Kentucky Kentucky
42 Anna Slepper 24 Female Servant Germany Kentucky
43 Catharine Heinritz 26 Female Germany Louisiana
44 Wilhelmine Burghard 23 Female Germany Kentucky
45 Johanne Lutner 23 Female Germany Louisiana
46 Rebecca Vorwerks 24 Female Germany Mississippi
47 Johannes Hermes 42 Male Farmer Germany Texas
48 Elisabeth Schulte 36 Female Germany Texas
49 Johannes Hermes 18 Male Germany Texas
50 Caspar Hermes 15 Male Germany Texas
51 Heinrich Hermes 14 Male Germany Texas
52 Elisabeth Hermes 13 Female Germany Texas
53 Joseph Hermes 10 Male Germany Texas
54 Franz Hermes 9 Male Germany Texas
55 Peter Hermes 2 Male Germany Texas
56 Ferdinand Hermes 0y 6m Male Germany Texas
57 Engelbert Bohmer 26 Male Farmer Germany Texas
58 Joseph Schulte 28 Male Mason Germany Texas
59 Franziska Tuch 29 Female Germany Texas
60 Franziska Schulte 0y 6m Female Germany Texas
61 Marie Schulte 21 Female Servant Germany Texas
62 Georg Degen 36 Male Wheelwright Missouri Missouri
63 Carl Johann Gohrig 20 Male Laborer Germany Missouri
64* ????? Schulze 27 Male Shoemaker Louisiana Louisiana
65 Anna Junke 21 Female Germany Louisiana
66 Christian Tulke 42 Male Joiner Germany Louisiana
67 Theodore Junger 25 Male Farmer Missouri Missouri
68 Marie Lemon 28 Female Missouri Missouri
69 Joh^n. Melodine Tuhke 19 Female Servant Germany Louisiana
70 Heinrich Moller 24 Male Merchant Missouri Missouri
71 Josephine Nolting 15 Female Servant Germany Missouri
72 Phillip Nolting 15 Male Student Germany Missouri
73 Michel Kisshauer 49 Male Farmer Louisiana Louisiana
74 Josephine Wunderlich 33 Female Louisiana Louisiana
75 Auguste Kisshauer 7 Female Louisiana Louisiana
76 Pauline Brautigam 19 Female Germany Louisiana
77 Gottfried Pfau 34 Male Farmer Germany Louisiana
78 Amalie Trummann 31 Female Germany Louisiana
79 Emil Pfau 7 Male Germany Louisiana
80 Emilie Pfau 5 Female Germany Louisiana
81 Pauline Pfau 3 Female Germany Louisiana
82 Wilhelm Rekate 18 Male Merchant Germany Missouri
83 Friedrich Noth 20 Male Joiner Germany Wisconsin
84 Heinrich Wolters 31 Male Merchant New Orleans New Orleans
85 Anna Wolters 26 Female Servant Germany Kentucky
86 Meta Wolters 21 Female Germany Kentucky
87 Catharine Block 17 Female Germany Kentucky
88 Anna Hogemann 22 Female Germany New Orleans
89 Meta Hogemann 24 Female Germany New Orleans
90 Johann Becker 60 Male Shoemaker Germany Missouri
91* Wopke Schroeder 58 Female Germany Missouri
92 Claus Becker 25 Male Shoemaker Germany Missouri
93 Anna Becker 21 Female Servant Germany Missouri
94 Adelheid Becker 19 Female Servant Germany Missouri
95 Claus Renken 21 Male Laborer Germany New Orleans
96 Margaretha Adelheid Renken 25 Female Germany New Orleans
97 Heinrich Bohling 47 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
98* Adelheid Brunings 39 Female Germany Missouri
99 Meta Bohling 14 Female Germany Missouri
100 Henrich Bohling 10 Male Germany Missouri
101 Johann Bohling 8 Male Germany Missouri
102* Friedrich Bohling 6 Male Germany Missouri
103 Herrmann Bohling 4 Male Germany Missouri
104 Diedrich Stelling 22 Male Laborer Germany Missouri
105* Margarethe Trenzel 19 Female Servant Germany Missouri
106 Johann Diedrich Bellmann 22 Male Laborer Germany Missouri
107 Marie Muller 40 Female New Orleans New Orleans
108 Marie Borger 58 Female Germany Kentucky
109 Louise Borger 17 Female Germany Kentucky
110 Wilhelm Borger 24 Male Germany Kentucky
111 Joseph Kumming 14 Male Germany Kentucky
112 Marie Catharine Westholdtz 56 Female Servant Germany Missouri
113 Catharine Westholdtz 23 Female Germany Missouri
114 Heinrich Westholdtz 15 Male Germany Missouri
115 Franz Doze 25 Male Farmer Missouri Missouri
116 Charlotte Doze 22 Female Germany Missouri
117 Wilhelmine Doze 17 Female Germany Missouri
118 Bernhard Hamers 23 Male Slater Germany Missouri
119 Heinrich Voss 30 Male Germany Missouri
120 Friedrich Fricke 57 Male Carpenter Germany Missouri
121 Catherine Marie Meiers 47 Female Germany Missouri
122 Friedrich Fricke 14 Male Germany Missouri
123 Christoph Wilhelm Langhorst 46 Male Shoemaker Missouri Missouri
124 Wilhelmine Riesmaier 56 Female Germany Missouri
125 Johanne Schutter 18 Female Servant Germany Missouri
126 Charlotte Kruse 30 Female Germany Missouri
127 Harm Blanke 56 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
128 Adelheid Moller 47 Female Germany Missouri
129 Metta Blanke 19 Female Germany Missouri
130 Anna Blanke 17 Female Germany Missouri
131 Adelheid Blanke 14 Female Germany Missouri
132 Stephen Blanke 12 Male Germany Missouri
133 Harm Blanke 9 Male Germany Missouri
134 Martin Blanke 7 Male Germany Missouri
135 Ferdinand Brekner 35 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
136 Marie Anna Winter 39 Female Germany Missouri
137 Marie Bremer 7 Female Germany Missouri
138 Elisabeth Bremer 0y 6m Female Germany Missouri
139 Anna Marie Kuntze 65 Female Germany Missouri
140 Alexander Wolf 59 Male Merchant Germany New Orleans
141 Samuel Wolf 14 Male Germany New Orleans
142 Friedrich Marten 24 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
143 Wilhelm Lubbert 19 Male Germany Missouri
144 Friedrich Lutkemeier 17 Male Joiner Germany Missouri
145 Carl Hesse 24 Male Laborer Germany Illinois
146 Friedrich Hagemann 20 Male Laborer Germany Ohio
147 Friedrich Henke 20 Male Germany Ohio
148 Ferdinand Kroger 17 Male Germany Missouri
149 Friedrich Kroger 26 Male Germany Missouri
150 Friedrich Bremeier 21 Male Laborer Germany Ohio
151 Christian Kreft 25 Male Farmer Germany Ohio
152 Wilhelm Luttermann 18 Male Germany Ohio
153 Wilhelm Franke 21 Male Wheelwright Germany Ohio
154 Friedrich Spreen 21 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
155 Wilhelm Steinkamp 23 Male Laborer Germany Missouri
156 Wilhelm Kroger 26 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
157 Wilhelm Kampelmann 16 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
158 Elisabeth Metten 18 Female Servant Germany Kentucky
159 Conrad Bruning 21 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
160 Wilhelm Borgmaier 18 Male Slater Germany Kentucky
161 Caspar Poppe 33 Male Laborer Germany Kentucky
162 Catharine Marie Konig 21 Female Servant Germany Kentucky
163 Wilhelm Wagner 28 Male Joiner Germany Missouri
164 Magdalene Gran 30 Female Germany New Orleans
165 Amalie Gran 7y 6m Female Germany New Orleans
166 Gerhard Kolthoff 20 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
167 Joh. Berning 21 Male Germany Missouri
168 Catharine Berning 19 Female Germany Missouri
169 Hermann Schroeder 25 Male Baker Louisiana New Orleans
170 Joh. Georg Mittendorf 51 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
171 Marie Stumburg 52 Female Germany Missouri
172 Heinrich Mittendorf 10 Male Germany Missouri
173 Elise Mittendorf 8 Female Germany Missouri
174 Margaretha Kamphaus 21 Female Servant Germany Missouri
175 Marie Vording 20 Female Germany Missouri
176 Christoph H^ch Duvendack 32 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
177 Marie Elisabeth Rogemeier 30 Female Germany Missouri
178 Marie Elisabeth Duvendack 7 Female Germany Missouri
179 Marie Engel Duvendack 5 Female Germany Missouri
180 Catharine Engel Duvendack 3 Female Germany Missouri
181 Catharine Marie Duvendack 0y 6m Female Germany Missouri
182 Gerh^d H^ch Mesche 22 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
183 Catharine Marie Hogemeier 28 Female Germany Missouri
184 Gerhard Victor Kanke 32 Male Blacksmith Germany Missouri
185 Catharine Marie Gronefeld 30 Female Germany Missouri
186 Marie Engel Kanke 9 Female Germany Missouri
187 Johann Heinrich Kanke 7 Male Germany Missouri
188 Adam Ludwig Kanke 6 Male Germany Missouri
189 Anna Marie Kanke 4 Female Germany Missouri
190 Gerhard Heinrich Kanke 3 Male Germany Missouri
191 Joh. Friedrich Kanke 0y 6m Male Germany Missouri
192 Joh. Heinrich Kanke 60 Male Germany Missouri
193 Joh. Adam Beckmann 28 Male Germany Missouri
194 Catharine Ellinghaus 33 Female Servant Germany Missouri
195 Jurgen Hch. Ruhl 7 Male Germany Missouri
196 Cord H^ch Ruckemann 36 Male Farmer Germany Iowa
197 Caroline Waltke 28 Female Germany Iowa
198 Christian Ruckemann 6 Male Germany Iowa
199 Heinrich Ruckemann 2 Male Germany Iowa
200 August Grannemann 19 Male Farmer Germany Iowa
201 Hch. Meyer 22 Male Germany Iowa
202 Marie Waltgen 56 Female Germany Missouri
203 Heinrich Waltgen 19 Male Germany Missouri
204 Louise Waltgen 16 Female Germany Missouri
205 Ludwig von Behrend 15 Male Joiner Germany Missouri
206 Fried^ch Wilh^m Meybohm 53 Male Joiner Germany Missouri
207 Marie Elisabeth Horstmann 46 Female Germany Missouri
208 Fried^ch Christian Meybohm 18 Male Germany Missouri
209 Marie Louise Meybohm 14 Female Germany Missouri
210 Fried^ch Wilh^m Chr. Meybohm 9 Male Germany Missouri
211 Joh^n Gerh^d Abel 17 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
212 Caroline Borgmann 18 Female Germany Missouri
213 Christine Tielking 18 Female Germany Ohio
214* Wilhelm Tuting 14 Male Germany Missouri
215 Sophie Tielemann 23 Female Germany Missouri
216 Catharine Niemann 24 Female Germany Ohio
217 Margaretha Tonjes 36 Female Germany Missouri
218 Catharine Feldhaus 23 Female Germany Missouri
219 Gerd Wilhelm Stunken 24 Male Tailor Germany Missouri
220 John. H^ch Heckert 22 Male Tailor Germany Missouri
221 John. Wm. Bruns 22 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
222 Anna Kreye 26 Female Servant Germany Missouri
223 Auguste Baumeyer 20 Female Germany Missouri
224 Joh^n H^ch Tolken 59 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
225 Adelheid Tolken 26 Female Germany Missouri
226 Joh^n Rolfes 22 Male Joiner Germany Missouri
227 Joh^n Wm. Hemmen 26 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
228 Adelheid Hemmen 23 Female Germany Missouri
229 Marie Gesine Geifler 25 Female Servant Germany Missouri
230 Bernard Hapster 28 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
231 Eber^d Hapster 24 Male Germany Missouri
232 Helena Hapster 60 Female Germany Missouri
233 Gesine Moller 25 Female Servant Germany Missouri
234 Anna Marie Becker 18 Female Germany Missouri
235 Tekla Becker 21 Female Germany Missouri
236 Bernhard Becker 27 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
237 Marie Schmidt 19 Female Servant Germany Missouri
238 Gesine Cossen 26 Female Germany Missouri
239 Caroline Kruger 26 Female Germany Ohio
240 Marie Kloster 27 Female Germany Ohio
241 Johann Wester 18 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
242 Gerhard Herrmann Bruns 32 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
243 Elisabeth Lammers 27 Female Germany Missouri
244 Joh. Bernard Ostermann 26 Male Carpenter Germany Missouri
245 Alexander Schuhmacher 19 Male Carpenter Germany Ohio
246 Marie Herbes 26 Female Servant Germany Missouri
247 Christine Pieper 18 Female Germany Ohio
248 Herrmann Feye 28 Male Blacksmith Germany Missouri
249 Tekla Behrensen 29 Female Germany Missouri
250 Helena Behrensen 20 Female Germany Missouri
251 Heinrich Stellbring 15 Male Farmer Germany New Orleans
252 Helene Stellbring 17 Female Germany New Orleans
253 Anna Meyer 26 Female Servant Germany Missouri
254 Bernard H^ch Haake 31 Male Farmer Germany Missouri
255 Anna Marie Eilers 22 Female Germany Missouri
256 Anna Marie Haake 0y 6m Female Germany Missouri
257 Theodor Bitter 18 Male Carpenter Germany Ohio
258 Margarethe Heggert 24 Female Servant Germany Missouri
259 Gesine Hindrichs 35 Female Servant Germany Missouri
260 Joh. Nicolas Janssen 18 Male Baker Germany Ohio
261 Maria Scheligh 45 Female Servant Germany Missouri
262 August Scheligh 17 Male Tailor Germany Missouri
263 Marie Scheligh 12 Female Germany Missouri
264 Albert Scheligh 8 Male Germany Missouri
265 Anna Scheligh 7 Female Germany Missouri
266 Henriette Held 19 Female Servant Germany Missouri
Transcriber's Notes:
* Asterisks indicate transcriber's notes.
? Question marks indicate illegible letters.
^ Carets indicate missing letters followed by a superscripted letter or
letters.
* Passenger numbers did not appear on original, but have been added for
reference.
* This was a Port of New York form, with New York references changed to New
Orleans.
* The last two columns were eliminated from this transcription:
The two passengers who died are listed in the footnotes.
The part of ship occupied column was blank.
* Most wives on this manifest were listed by their maiden names.
* Occupations have been listed only where spelled out or "do" written. Many
others of all ages and sex have "squiggle" marks, which may or may not
indicate ditto marks.
Passenger Notes:
* Surnames of the following passengers contained an umlaut:
Umlaut over a: 76.
Umlaut over o: 19, 35, 57, 63, 88-89, 108-110, 128, 148-149, 156, 162,
175, 217, 224-225, 233.
Umlaut over u: 12, 20, 30, 32-34, 65-67, 98, 107, 125, 143-144, 159, 196,
198-199, 214, 239.
* Given names of the following passengers contained an umlaut:
Umlaut over o: 91.
Umlaut over u: 195.
* Many passengers are enclosed by brackets, to indicate travel as a family or
group. Following are those so-marked:
47-56, 57-61, 64-65, 67-68, 72-76, 77-82, 84-86, 90-94, 95-96, 97-103,
108-111, 112-114, 115-117, 120-122, 127-134, 135-139, 166-168, 170-175,
176-183, 184-193, 194-195, 196-205, 224-225, 227-228, 230-232, 248-250,
261-265.
# 38 - Can't read occupation; area too dark.
# 64 - Dark area that appears to have been taped; first name not legible.
# 91 - Given name later spelled Wübke.
# 98 - Surname should be Brüning (no s).
#102 - Correct given name is known to have been Diedrich.
#105 - Correct surname believed to be Krenzel.
#214 - First name Friedrich crossed out and changed to Wilhelm.
Personal Notes
Several families and individuals from the Kingdom of Hanover settled in the
Cole Camp area of Benton County, Missouri and adjoining parts of Morgan and
Pettis Counties (see German Immigrants):
# 90-# 94 - John Becker family: John's wife Wübke (Schroeder) Becker may have
been a sister of Claus Schroeder #400, as the Becker's were in the
Schroeder household 1860. John and Wübke both died in Benton County
1880.
# 93 - was Claus Becker's wife Anna (Renken) Becker, born Ostersode, Hanover.
Claus was killed 1861 in the Battle of Cole Camp, and Anna married Henry
Heimsoth 1863, died 1913.
# 94 - Adelheid Becker was in H. D. Heimsoth household Benton County 1860 and
married John Henry Clausen of Pettis County in 1863.
# 95 - Claus Renken, brother of # 93 Anna (Renken) Becker, died in Benton
County 1908.
# 96 - Margaretha Adelheid Renken, wife of Claus Renken #95 (maiden name also
Renken). Married shortly before voyage in Gnarrenburg, Hanover.
# 97-#103 - Henry Bohling family, from Wörpedorf, Hanover. Henry died in Benton
County about 1890.
#104 - Casper Diedrich Stelling from Seehausen, Hanover. Married Catherine
Traugott in Benton County 1866, died 1914.
#105 - Believed to be Margaret Krenzel. In Henry Harms household Benton County
1860, married Christoph Brandt in Morgan County 1862.
#106 - John Diedrich Bellman. In John Hucker household Benton County 1860,
later fate unknown.
Correspondence 3/8/02 passengers #251 & 252 Stellbring/Spellbring
The spelling of the name should be Spellbring instead of Stellbring.
Henrich Spellbring, settled in Cincinnati, Ohio and married Mary Centner.
Inquries can be made to Mary McDonald
Correspondence 01/09/03 passengers #235 Becker
There are several Becker's on that ship but this Tekla Becker was born in
Breddenberg, Germany. This area is now called "Emsland" (also see www.emslanders.com) .
After she arrived in New Orleans she travelled to St. Louis, MO and on June 19, 1860
married Johann Hermanus Gebken (John H.) at the St. Peter & Paul's church in the
same city. They had 5 children with the names Anna, Helena, Henry A., John H. jr., Mary
Anna Thekla Becker was born on July 28, 1838, she died on June 12, 1893 in
St. Louis, MO. I have a copy of the obit in a newspaper ("Die Westliche Post",
page 4, Wed. 14 June 1893).
Information on John H. Gebken:
His mother's name was: Toebe (Tabitha) Stricker, born in 1789 in Lorup, died
on Oct. 22, 1874 in Breddenberg, she was buried in Boerger.
His father's name was: Johann Gebken, born in 1788 in Breddenberg, died on
Jan. 18, 1865 in Breddenberg, he was buried in Boerger.
In 1886 he founded the Livery & Boarding Stables at 2230 Gravois Ave.,
St. Louis, MO. In 1892 a second business was established at 2842 Meramec Street.
Today this business is still at 2842 Meramec Street and meanwhile in the fifth
generation:
Gebken-Benz Mortuary
2842 Meramec Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
phone: 314-752-9300
John H. died on Dec. 23, 1911 when a street car hit him and threw him out of his
buggy, just in front of his home. Ulrike Toebben
Ulrike's home page is located at Homepage
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M259, Reel 48.
Transcribed and Contributed by Homer R. Ficken for the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
28 February 2001
Formatted by Sharon Krisko a member of the
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