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Bark Union
I, J. Horstmann, Master of the Bark Union, 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 York, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board of the said vessel at Bremen from which port said vessel 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) J. Horstmann. Sworn to this 6 Oct 1857, Before me (signature cannot be read).
List or Manifest OF ALL THE PASSENGERS taken on board the Union whereof J. Horstmann, is master, from Bremen burthen 450 tons.
Columns represent: *Passenger number, Names, Age in 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 occupied by each passenger during the voyage.
First Cabin
1 Friedrich Frevert 25 3 m farmer Germany
2 Louis Claussen 15 9 m Germany
3 Heinrich Claussen 11 6 m Germany
4* Gottlieb Konig 23 4 m Studios Germany
5* Fanny Graen 22 2 f Germany
6 Wilhelm Yung 24 3 m minister Germany
7* Carl Graen 17 7 m Carpenter Germany
8* Bertha Druhe 20 8 f Germany
Second Cabin
9 Johanna Kaste 28 - f Germany
10 Christian Vollbrecht 25 5 m farmer Germany
11 Wilhelmine Vollbrecht 27 10 f Germany
12 Elenore Meier 25 4 f Germany
13* Margus Helfer 18 2 m merchant Germany
14 Joanette Bock 20 2 f Germany
15 Auguste Schrumpf 22 3 f Germany
16 Charlotte Seidel 26 1 f Germany
17 Friederike Heidenbluth 16 5 f Germany
18* Wilhelm Muller 26 9 m farmer Germany
19* Fritz Muller 22 8 m mechanicus Germany
20 Frierich Langschmidt 40 2 m weaver Germany
21 Caroline Langschmidt 40 4 f Germany
22 Heinrich Langschmidt 6 - m Germany
23 Minna Langschmidt 4 10 f Germany
24 Alwina Langschmidt - 11 f Germany
25 Heinrich Nordsieck 35 2 m weaver Germany
26 Caroline Nordsieck 22 6 f Germany
27 Hermann Nordsieck 6 5 m Germany
28 Henriette Nordsieck - 4 f Germany
29 Johann Ortmann 28 7 m yoiner Germany
30* Friedrich Bohle 26 m farmer Germany
31 Rudolph Ulitte 26 11 m farmer Germany
32 Caroline Brasse 23 2 f Germany
33* Johanne Kobusch 22 4 f Germany
34 Johann Nutz 31 6 m merchant Germany
35 Friedrich Heimers 26 5 m maschinist Germany
36 Gustav Kraup 27 m baker Germany
37* Hermann Mohl 26 8 m merchant Germany
38 Maria Hard 17 f Germany
39 Lina Both 23 6 f Germany
40 Christoph Heger 45 8 m farmer Germany
41 Friederike Heger 32 2 f Germany
42 Caroline Heger 10 3 f Germany
43 Friederike Heger 5 6 f Germany
44 Wilhelmine Heger 2 1 f Germany
45* Caroline Hubinger 42 5 f Germany
46 Christian Vogting 19 7 m yoiner Germany
47 August Nagel 19 3 m miller Germany
48 Moses Ritter 18 1 m glazier Germany
49 Chatharina Ritter 20 9 f Germany
50 Carl Dingeldey 26 10 m merchant U States
51 Claus Heinr Kahrs 25 7 m farmer U States
52 Keinrich Steffens 17 2 m farmer Germany
53* Heinrich Kahrs 27 9 m sailor * Germany
54 Chatharine Hagena 23 3 f U States
55 Anna Kahrs 24 4 f Germany
56* Christian Bohl 53 7 m farmer Germany
57* Friederike Bohl 42 5 f Germany
58* Wilhelmine Bohl 26 4 f Germany
59* Louise Bohl 16 2 f Germany
60* Chatharine Bohl 14 3 f Germany
61* Christian Bohl 12 6 m Germany
62* Georg Bohl 10 4 m Germany
63* Wilhelm Bohl 8 5 m Germany
64* Heinrich Bohl 6 7 m Germany
65* Friederich Bohl 2 9 m Germany
Steerage-Between Decks
66 Conrad Koppel 38 5 m carpenter Germany
67 Chatharine Koppel 9 3 f Germany
68 Joseph Koppel 9 4 m Germany
69 Heinrich Koppel 7 - m Germany
70 Friedrich Koppel 2 3 m Germany
71 Marianne Kranz 23 7 f Germany
72 Maria Kranz 19 6 f Germany
73 Wilhelmine Brandes 16 5 f Germany died
74 Christoph Staats 31 4 m weaver Germany
75 Dorothea Staats 35 9 f Germany
76 Dorothea Staats 10 2 f Germany
77 Caroline Staats 24 6 f Germany
78 Georg Con Schmidt 18 8 m farmer Germany
79 Mathilde Heller 20 4 f Germany
80 Joseph Marschall 19 - m farmer Germany
81 Amalia Josert 21 3 f Germany
82 Marianne Hilpert 23 9 f Germany
83 Georg Hilpert 19 8 m farmer Germany
84 Barbaras Spies 20 5 f Germany
85 Anna Maria Vollmar 17 4 f Germany
86 Victoria Fink 19 9 f Germany
87 Anna Fink 15 7 f Germany
88 Gertrude Wigand 21 - f Germany
89 Josepha Grobb 20 5 f Germany
90 Anna Marie Kehl 23 8 f Germany
91 Blasius Appel 18 1 m farmer Germany
92 Andreas Ziesse 17 3 m farmer Germany
93* Conrad Muller 17 9 m yoiner Germany
94 Theodor Geller 18 3 m farmer Germany
95 Elisabeth Geller 52 4 f Germany
96 Carl Geller 22 6 m shoemaker Germany
97 Wilhelm Geller 16 2 m Germany
98 Heinrich Geller 14 - m Germany
99 Ludwig Waldschmidt 22 4 m farmer Germany
100 Elisabeth Ring 41 9 f Germany
101 Georg Biek 12 6 m Germany
102 Anna Maria Huth 22 3 f Germany
103 Joseph Flick 54 8 m baker Germany
104 Franzisca Flick 52 9 f Germany
105 Theresia Flick 24 5 f Germany
106 Adolph Flick 22 - m Germany
107 Anna Flick 9 1 f Germany
108 Ludwig Sasmanshausen 19 3 m Germany
109 Georg Hominghausen 34 2 m carpenter Germany
110 Jakob Vogeler 20 6 m shoemaker Germany
111 Caspar Hota 55 10 m farmer Germany
112 Anna Maria Hota 56 9 f Germany
113 Friedrich Hota 21 - m black-smith Germany
114 Dortjen Hota 29 2 f Germany
115 Heinrich Hota 11 4 m Germany
116 Jakob Bomm 28 3 m farmer Germany
117 Christina Bomm 26 6 f Germany
118 Maria Bomm 3 - f Germany
119 Jakob Bomm - 9 m Germany
120 Helena Stephan 36 4 f Germany
121 Heinrich Schneider 15 3 m Germany
122* Elisabeth Botzenich 23 7 f Germany
123 Chatharina Berg 16 6 f Germany
124* Conrad Stormer 47 11 m farmer Germany
125* Elisabeth Stormer 46 9 f Germany
126* Wilhelm Stormer 13 3 m Germany
127* Anna Stormer 7 6 f Germany
128* Helena Stormer 6 2 f Germany
129 John Bastian 53 10 m shoemaker Germany
130 Chatharina Bastian 49 8 f Germany
131 Maria Bastian 15 5 f Germany
132 Chatharina Bastian 9 3 f Germany
133 Marianne Bastian 6 9 f Germany
134 Christoph Thiele 26 3 m farmer Germany
135 Caroline Thiele 22 2 f Germany
136 August Thiele - 2 m Germany
137 Maria Meier 20 4 f Germany
138 Jakob Meuser 26 5 m carpenter Germany
139* Henriette Rietmuller 25 6 f Germany
140 Elisabeth Wagener 51 10 f Germany
141 Maria Wagener 18 2 f Germany
142 Pauline Schauer 25 6 f Germany
143 Peter Leonhard 35 3 m shoemaker Germany
144 Elisabeth Trube 21 5 f Germany
145 Johannes Trube 28 7 m tailor Germany
146 Claus Hopfeld 19 1 m tailor Germany
147 Heinrich Weissgerber 21 - m black-smith Germany
148 Heinrich Meier 39 6 m farmer Germany
149 Dorothea Meier 35 7 f Germany
150 Johann Meier 11 2 m Germany
151 Conrad Meier 9 7 m Germany
152 Dortjen Meier 7 - f Germany
153 Anna Meier 3 4 f Germany
154 Friedrich Kraft 22 5 m shoemaker Germany
155* August Bohl 22 - m farmer Germany
156 Friedrich Imhoff 26 8 m farmer Germany
157 Maria Hoffmann 23 2 f Germany
158 Maria Hoffmann 26 9 f Germany
159 Johannes Weber 22 6 m carpenter Germany
160 Peter Weber 16 2 m farmer Germany
161 Jakob Weber 19 - m farmer Germany
162 Philipp Klotz 17 3 m farmer Germany
163* Johannes Strohm 26 9 m segermaker Germany
164* Jakob Spottel 32 - m farmer Germany
165 Wilhelm Staats 19 8 m farmer Germany
166 Friederike Koch 19 4 f Germany
167 Anna Boeder 18 3 f Germany
168 Chatharina Boeder 15 6 f Germany
169 Conrad Kappel 23 4 m farmer Germany
170 Heinrich Ehlers 35 2 m farmer Germany
171 Wilhelm Staats 26 - m farmer Germany
172 Wilhelm Niebeling 27 2 m tailor Germany
173 Anna Niebeling 27 3 f tailor Germany
174* Johannes Niebeling - 11 m Germany
175 Johanne Hens 24 10 f Germany
176 Wilhelm Volkers 24 6 m clarck U States
177 Helene Janssen 24 3 f Germany
178 Carl Saldwedel 26 2 m yoiner Germany
179 Marie Krey 21 6 f Germany
180 Heinrich Beiling 20 4 m farmer Germany
181 Friedrich Oppermann 27 - m shoemaker Germany
182 Carl Niebeling 20 8 m tailor Germany
183 Georg Schieb 21 4 m tailor Germany
184 Magdalene Schieb 19 6 f Germany
185 Elisabeth Krutz 22 7 f Germany
186 Margarethe Hinkel 19 8 f Germany
187* Margarethe Schafer 33 4 f Germany
188 Eleonore Seefahrt 25 10 f Germany
189 Gertrude Eggolt 53 8 f Germany
190 Heinrich Eggolt 18 2 m Germany
191 Jakob Eggolt 12 5 m Germany
192 Maria Emde 18 3 f Germany
193 Louise Arnold 18 5 f Germany
194 Wilhelm Schwedner 21 6 m Germany
195 Susanne Knoblauch 18 5 f Germany
196 Wilhelm Lilje 34 8 m farmer Germany
197 Louise Schneider 24 9 f Germany
198 Bernhard Kling 39 2 m shoemaker Germany
199 Franz Siebert 24 - m farmer Germany
200 Carl Meyer 15 3 m tailor Germany
201 Carl Meyer 23 6 m tailor Germany
202 Hienrich Mathias 23 5 m tailor Germany
203 Conrad Wisselkrand 18 4 m shoemaker Germany
204 Heinrich Brinkhoff 28 6 m farmer Germany
205 Christian Brinkhoff 25 9 m farmer Germany
206* Daniel Bose 21 2 m tailor Germany
207* Maria Bose 24 - f Germany
208* Louis Bose - 4 m Germany
209 Carl Franz Schmitz 30 3 m black-smith Germany
210 Wilhelmine Schmitz 21 5 f Germany
211 Wallburger Dannegger 23 6 m Germany
212 Elisabeth Deisenroth 25 4 f Germany
213 Carl Kranz 24 - m shoemaker Germany
214 Diedrich Grauer 25 8 m farmer Germany
215 Heinrich Schulte 21 9 m farmer Germany
216 Margarethe Lang 28 2 f Germany
217 Ludwig Seifert 28 1 m shoemaker Germany
Transcriber's Notes:
* List is numbered by the transcriber.
* Sex was listed as "male" or "finale". They are transcribed here as m or f.
* All passengers were listed as destined for "U States",
therefore the column is omitted.
* Part of Vessel column originally appeared in the column along the right edge
on each page as well as above each group. Here the heading appears
above each group only.
* Names abbreviated as indicated.
* Occupations are transcribed as written.
Passenger Notes:
* 4, surname, umlaut on o.
* 5, surname, there was a circumflex above the a and e.
* 7, surname, there was a circumflex above the a and e.
* 8, surname, umlaut on u.
* 13, sex was originally written "f'male", but the f was lined out.
* 18-19, surname, umlaut on u.
* 30, surname, umlaut on o.
* 37, surname, umlaut on o.
* 45, surname, umlaut on u.
* 53, country was listed as "U States" which was struck through,
and "d." (ditto) was written beside that, indicating Germany.
* 93, surname, umlaut on u.
* 122, surname, umlaut on o.
* 124-128, surname, umlaut on o.
* 139, surname, umlaut on u.
* 155, surname, umlaut on u.
* 163, surname, umlaut on o.
* 164, surname, umlaut on o.
* 174, occupation, tailor was written and struck through.
* 187, surname, umlaut on a.
* 206-208, surname, umlaut on o.
The transcriber, Don Schmalbeck, was pleased to find his
great-great grandmother and her parents on this ship.
She is passenger number 59, Louise Bohl (Boehl), and her parents are
Christian and Friederike Bohl (Boehl), passengers 56 and 57.
They settled on a farm in Monee, Will County, Illinois. Louise married
Ernst Strecker, who arrived on the Bark Olympia in May 1857 which is
transcribed in ISTG Volume 3. They had 8 children. Louise died in 1891 in
Germantown, Wisconsin and is buried beside Ernst at Montrose Cemetery in
Chicago.
Correspondence 4/11/02 passenger #79, 159-161 Weber
79. Mathilde Heller (b. Barbara Mathilda Heller 02 April 1837 in
Dipperz, Hessen, Germany where her father Georg Adam Heller of
Grossenlüder, Hessen, Germany a school teacher). Her mother was Maria
Anna Mihm of Liembachshof, Hessen, Germany. The family lived in
Liembachshof. Mathilda died 18 December 1892 in Rochester, New York
Children: Maria Margaretha Weber (married Joseph Volkmuth)
Citzelia Paulina Weber
Henry Joseph Weber
Elizabeth August. Weber (married John H.P.
Tschetter, 10 November 1897)
Olive Weber
Theresia Matilda Weber (married John Weider)
159. Johannes Weber (b. 05 June 1835 in Burghaun, Hessen Germany)
died in Rochester, New York on 09 January 1887. Spouse: Barbara
Mathilda Heller (above). Parents Unknown.
160. Peter Weber - possible brother of Johannes Weber
161. Jakob Weber - possible brother of Johannes Weber
Elaine Gervasi
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 179, List 1194.
Contributed and Transcribed by Don Schmalbeck, a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild18 July 2001
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