Pam, you are right in your thinking. The odds that he will show up
are slim but maybe worth a look especially if you have access to the
indirect list without having to order it thru LDS library.
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On Fri 12/18/09 10:20 AM , PJ Vazquez netkitty@hotmail.com sent:
Max,
No I didn't. I assumed direct meant that the ship didn't stop in
other ports. Am I wrong?
I'll take a look though.
Thanks, Pam
> To: hannover-l@genealogy.net [1]
> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:00:27 -0500
> From: pharmaxx@knology.net [2]
> Subject: Re: [HN] Klug - SS Republic arriving 24 Apr 1874
>
>
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> Did you by chance check the direct list?
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> On Fri 12/18/09 10:03 AM , PJ Vazquez netkitty@hotmail.com [3]
sent:
> Thanks Rena,
> What I really am looking for is what ship would have taken my Klug
> family from Hamburg to Liverpool, England? I had been assuming
that
> they started their voyage aboard the SS Republic but when I looked
> through the list of indirect voyages I never find it. So then I
> realized that they must not have set sail from Hamburg aboard the
SS
> Republic, but were probably on a smaller ship. They must have just
> boarded the SS Republic in Liverpool. Any ideas?
> I could check the Hamburg list for all ships from Jan 1874 through
> April 1874 and look line by line.
> Best wishes, Pam
> > From: rena.mackenzie@virgin.net [4] [1]
> > To: hannover-l@genealogy.net [5] [2]
> > Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:19:58 +0000
> > Subject: [HN] Klug - SS Republic arriving 24 Apr 1874
> >
> > Hello again,
> > Queenstown (Cobh) is in the County of Cork, southern Ireland and
> it was the
> > last port of call that the great steam ship Titanic made after
it
> too
> > departed from Liverpool, England.
> >
>
http://www.theirishriviera.com/index.php?Itemid=332&id=18&option=com_content&task=view
[6]
> [3]
> >
> > Unfortunately I do not think you will find any record of your
Klug
> family's
> > travel across England, as after 1869 the British Home Office
> preserved the
> > passenger lists for only five years after which they were
> destroyed.
> > Although I see there are a few surviving lists which were kept
by
> another
> > Office and are now on ancestry.co.uk but they start from 1878. I
> looked
> > for a website which I bookmarked a few years ago which showed
old
> pictures
> > of customs houses which your ancestor would have to wait in and
> also had
> > painting of the ships arriving in ports that ferried passengers
> from Germany
> > to England but the link is no longer available, which is sad
> because it
> > would have shown what your ancestors would have experienced.
> >
> > I also looked at this website in case your ancestor had sailed
> from Denmark
> > but no Klug sailed in that year
> > http://personal.inet.fi/yhdistys/centralin/swe/emi_ref.htm [7]
[4]
> >
> > I was hoping I might find mention of your family's bakery
business
> on this
> > website but there were too many pages to search through
> > http://aidaonline.niedersachsen.de/ [8] [5]
> >
> > Have you looked at the Card Catalogue on ancestry.co.uk? At the
> bottom of
> > this page you will see "Browse Dabatases". This is an alphabetic
> A,B,C
> > listing so you have to think outside the box: I found my German
> ancestors
> > living in Gross Mahner listed in an old 19th century Hannover
> address book .
> > Also I found my Scottish ancestors in a 1747 list of deported
> prisoners.
> > http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype/alldblist.aspx [9] [6]
> >
> > Good Luck,
> > Rena
> > =
> > Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:28:49 -0600
> > From: Cactus Flower
> > Dear Rena and Listies,
> >
> > Have been curious about that.
> > Have always used online clues to locate library microfilm
records
> to confirm
> > my own family research, but I believe not all are indexed.
> >
> > The situation which you describe? Europe to English or Irish
> port...
> > Indirect List? Not all all indexed.
> >
> >
> >
> > More difficult to locate an ancestor on an indirect list.
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a question about Queenstown though. I have always thout
of
> > Queenstown as a place located in Austrailia.
> >
> >
> >
> > That is no where near Ireland, or Brittish ports. Is there
another
> locality
> > called Queensland?
> >
> >
> >
> > Warmest Regards,
> >
> > Barbie-Lew
> >
> >
> >
> > P.S. Please forgive my lack of knowledge. I wouldn't ever read a
> list if I
> > knew all the answers.
> >
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> > > From: rena.mackenzie@virgin.net [10] [8]
> > > To: hannover-l@genealogy.net [11] [9]
> > > Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:09:25 +0000
> > > Subject: [HN] Klug - SS Republic arriving 24 Apr 1874
> > >
> > > Hello Pam,
> > >
> > > Your ancestor probably organised his journey through a travel
> agent and I
> > > think you'll possibly find that the ship line owners of SS
> Republic only
> > > operated out of Liverpool and Ireland. It was cheaper to sail
to
> an
> > > English port on the eastern coast such as Hull and travel
across
> the
> > > country
> > > by train to Liverpool. I believe records show that annually
this
> is what 2
> > > million mainland Europeans did. One of the ship lines
operating
> out of
> > > Hull
> > > to Holland and Germany was the Wilson Line and somewhere
online
> there is a
> > > poster which shows their ship arrival/departures and it also
> lists train
> > > timetables from Hull to Liverpool.
> > >
> > > Best Wishes,
> > > Rena
> > > =
> > >
> > > Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:55:53 +0000
> > > From: PJ Vazquez
> > >
> > > Hello List,
> > > Five members of my Klug family arrived to NYC aboard the SS
> Republic on 24
> > > Apr 1874. The ship is listed as departing through Liverpool,
> England and
> > > Queenstown, Ireland. I haven't been able to find this ship on
> the
> > > Hamburg list. I'm wondering if it originally departed Hamburg?
> Or
> > > would they have taken a different ship on the Hamburg to
London
> portion of
> > > the trip?
> > > This is of interest because I know that my Klug ancestors were
> born in
> > > Visselhövede, but that they moved from there around 1858 to
> another city
> > > in
> > > Hanover. The father Heinrich Klug (b. 1 Aug 1827) was a master
> baker and
> > > would have had his own bakery before he emigrated. They had 6
of
> their
> > > 10 children in the new town they moved to some where in
Hanover.
> Family
> > > stories relate that they were in Hamburg but I'm not sure how
to