Hallo Liste,
I am looking for the birth place in Germany of Andreas Sahm who came to America in 1753 0n the ship Neptune to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
He was a Blacksmith and Farmer and recorded land in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
His son Georg married Catarina Mueller in 1761 at New Holland Trinity Lutheren Church, Pennsylvania.
Anyone with information about his birth place or his family in Germany, please contact me.
Thank you,
Thomas Henry Sahm
Pasadena, California, USA
tsahm@me.com
these are to less information for a research. Did you have the immigration documents or the exact facts from the ships list? Or did you have more facts about him?
Where the ship starts in Europe? Did you have any parents or relatives of him. It could be that he immigrate to US with some relatives.
The most matches of the name SAHM in Germay today you will see here:
This could be a could indication to locate a little bit the roots of Sahm.
The name 'Sahm' comes in these counties are the most common:
Lahn-Dill-Kreis (60)
Offenbach (47)
Siegen-Wittgenstein (47)
Berlin (37)
Westerwaldkreis (25)
Darmstadt-Dieburg (25)
Hohenlohekreis (19)
München (18)
Köln (16)
Minden-Lübbecke (16)
Did you changed the writing of SAHM ?
Sahm
Last name origins & meanings:
Eastern German (of Slavic origin): from the Slavic personal name Samo, a short form of Samobor.
German: metonymic occupational name for a seed merchant, from Middle High German sām.