Greetings from Alabama, USA,
I am looking for information on August Christian Wilhelm RUMP, born 13 Dec.
1831 in Leeste. I got some information on him from the Oldenburg
Genealogical Society but they referred me here. He was a sailor on the
Norddeutscher Lloyd line in 1858 and 1859. At some point he was a ship's
carpenter (schiffszimmermann). He immigrated to America about 1867. There
is a family story about him getting into a disagreement with the captain or
shooting the captain and either getting thrown overboard or having to flee
the ship in America. Looking for his parents, siblings, etc. I know about
his children. He married Anna Sophie Diederike Hinrichs on 6 Mar 1859 in
Hammelwarden. She came to New York with 3 children in 1868 and they moved
to Alabama by 1870.
Danke,
Clay