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SS Pommerania


Hamburg, Germany via Havre, France to New York
2 January 1878

DISTRICT OF NEW YORK - PORT OF NEW YORK
I, H. F. Sch?????, Master of the SS Pommerania do solemnly, sincerely, and truly declare 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 Pommerania at Hamburg from which port said Pommerania has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex, and the occupation of each of said passengers, the location of the compartment or space of the said 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 dates, and the names and ages of those who died. So help me God. (signed) H.F.Sch?????

Sworn to this January 2 1878 before me R???????? DC
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the German SS Pommerania whereof H.F. Sch????? is Master from Hamburg and Havre burthen 3381 24/100 tons.
Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The Country to which they severally belong, The country in which they intend to become inhabitants, Died on the voyage. All Passengers intend to become inhabitants of the United States so that column was eliminated. No Passengers died on the voyage so that column was eliminated.
    
Betweendeck Passengers 
  1  Fritz Niemann            32 m  worker      Danemark
  2  Georg Braitmaier         33 m  worker      Hamburg
  3  Heinrich Schmitt         43 m  worker      United States
  4  Hans Stamer              17 m  merchant    Lauenburg Prussia
  5  Ferdinand Gehrkens       28 m  worker      Hamburg
  6  Harris Fischel           17 m  taylor      Russia
  7  Leog Fischel             18 m  taylor      Russia
  8* William ?ass             23 m  bricklayer  United States
  9  Gustav Bothe             28 m  farmer      Prussia
 10  Emil Horst               26 m  brewer      Wurtenberg
 11  Carl Horst               22 m  merchant    Wurtenberg
 12  Carl Schwerdtner         43 m  merchant    Wurtenberg
 13  Otto Schulz              15 m  worker      Wurtenberg
 14  Siegvart Manheim         23 m  merchant    Hungary
 15  Sven Svenson             27 m  smith       Sweden
 16  Mathias Gerber           29 m  brewer      Baveria
 17  Barbera Gerber           20 f  wife        Baveria
 18  Marie Gauggel            23 f  single      Baveria
 19  Elisabeth Kromer          9 f  child       Baveria
 20  Margarethe Albert        20 f  single      Baveria
 21  Josepha Albert           17 f  single      Baveria
 22  Johannes Kind            63 m  worker      Prussia
 23  Susanna Kwasniak         32 f  single      Prussia
 24  Mariane Pilarska         17 f  woman       Prussia
 25  Francisgka Pilarska      16 f  daughter    Prussia
 26  Erdman Schulz            43 m  worker      United States
 27  Peter Herrmann           56 m  worker      United States
 28  Christine Herrmann       56 f  wife        United States
 29* Hirsch Grunfeld          25 m  glazier     Prussia
 30  Caroline Sulzback        60 f  woman       Prussia
 31* Friedrich Gehrken        28 m  apothecary  Hamburg
 32  Susanne Susserszyneka    23 f  single      Germany
 33  August Geatelinger       32 m  butcher     Baden
 34  Ludwig Beck              35 m  merchant    Braunschweig
 35  Gustav Bendorf           24 m  butcher     Prussia
 36* Ludwig Schutz            15 m  boy         Prussia
 37  Wilhelm Kohn             32 m  merchant    United States
 38  Louis Kroutz             24 m  merchant    United States
 39  Josif Sobodta            24 m  merchant    Prussia
 40  Elkan Brzezeniski        15 m  boy         Prussia
 41  Sebel Feiknoff           16 m  merchant    Austria
 43  Michael Eich             37 m  farmer      Saxen
 43  Joseph Platky            22 m  merchant    Saxen
 44  Emilie Behrens           31 f  wife        Saxen
 45  Frederik Schmidt         29 m  farmer      United States
 46  Martine Schmidt          18 f  wife        United States
 47  Judel Schickamsky        21 m  taylor      Russia
 48  Anna Rosenthal           38 f  woman       Russia
 49* Eddy Rosenthal           18 f  child       Russia
 50  Sophia Rosenthal         14 f  child       Russia
 51  Carl Rosenthal            9 m  child       Russia
 52  Richard Baldauf          21 m  merchant    Prussia
 53* ?ac. Hildebrand          33 m  barber      Hessen
 54  August Cramer            25 m  carpenter   United States
 55* Jacob P??itti            24 m  farmer      Switzerland
 56  Jacob Reidt              20 m  farmer      Switzerland
 57* Carl Meir????            16 m  merchant    Wurttemberg
 58  Paul Jahn                21 m  merchant    Prussia

 (signed) H. F. Sch??????

Cabin Passengers
 59  Antonio Pader            23  m  student    United States
 60* Chr. ?? Funch            56  m ship broker United States
 61  Anton Collman            40  m  merchant   United States
 62  Anna Collman             27  f  lady       United States
 63  Julian Collman            5  m  child      United States
 64  Charles Collman           2  m  child      United States
 65  Lorenz Collman            3m m  baby       United States
 66  Amalie Schroeder         20  f  lady       Saxen
 67  Elise Schroeder          24  f  lady       Saxen
 68  August Friedrich Riedel  40  m  merchant   Brasilia
 69  Joseph Schneider         22  m  secretair  Preussia
 70  Ernst Hugo John          29  m  secretair  Sachsen
 71  Walter Sient von Wayrsch 21  m  officer    Schlesien
 72  Eugen Rosenthal          17  m  merchant   Baiern
 73  Ida Schaller             36  f  single     Baiern
 74  Caroline Schuchard       51  f  lady       United States
 75  Amalie Maleyka           21  f  lady       United States
 76  Alfred Maleyka            4  m  son        United States
 77  Emilie Maleyka           10m f  baby       United States
 78* Christine Bornschlagel   58  f  lady       Hessen
 79* Jessie B?????            30  f  lady       United States
 80* ??man B?????             15  m  son        United States
 81  James Snydam             50  m  gentleman  United States
 82  Louise Snydam            17  f  single     United States
 83  Gregor Chaidloff         30  m  merchant   Russia
 84* ??mann Meier             28  m  merchant   United States
 85  Jacob Loeb               27  m  merchant   United States
 86  Clara Cohn               31  f  lady       Germany


(signed) H. F. Sch??????
    
Transcriber's Notes:
     
* An asterisk is used to call attention to additional information in the 
  Passenger Notes.

? a question mark is used to indicate illegible letters or words.

* No births were recorded during this voyage.

* Names were transcribed as written without regard to spelling.

* The sex of the Passengers was abbreviated to f or m by the transcriber.


 8     Surname illegible due to handwriting. May be Tass.
29     Umlaut u in surname.
31     Name crossed out.
36     Umlaut u in surname.
49     Name crossed out. "Not on board" written.
55     Surname illegible due to poor film quality.
57     Surname illegible due to poor film quality.
60     Given name illegible due to poor film quality.
78     Umlaut a in surname.
79,80  Names illegible due to poor film quality.
84     Given name illegible due to poor film quality.

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 411, List 3.
Transcribed by Robert W. Grose a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
19 June 2002



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