The only missing aspect for me is what port my ancestors sailed from. Did
they board the Republic in Hannover or did they board in England? Where
did the Republic originate?
Pamela - It is a simple job to surf for the information and the SS gives a
hint that it was a British ship because it means "Steam Ship". Here is a
link where you will see that the SS Republic was owned by the "White Star
Line" which was a BRITISH company. When you visit the link I have given
you, you will see that its home port was Liverpool, it would then have
sailed out into the Irish Sea and then it would have crossed the Ocean to
New York. You must now write to Hamburg and see if they have a record of the
date of departure of your ancestor and which ferry ship they sailed on to
cross the Channel to England. http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=repu1
They would have sailed from Liverpool on April 16 1874. Yes, if I could find records of ferry crossings that would help.
I should back track and say that actually there is a missing 16 years, but what is missing is where they were living in Hannover, since they left their hometown. Record of the birth of their two oldest children was found in St. Johannis, Visselhövede. But then they had 6 more children after that and we don't know where those were born. I did have a researcher working on this for me but he did not find where they were during the time 1858 to 1874.
From a family history written by a grandchild of my gr gr grandparents I know they were still in Hannover and Hamburg is mentioned but I don't know if that's where they lived or just where they might have sailed from.
I find the shiplist REPUBLIC arriving 29 April 1874 with a family called Klug at wellknown pay site. I tried Morse to see if I could find departure list. I couldn't. Only arrival.
How did you discover where your Klug were from? Where did they reside in the U.S.?
Warmest Regards,
Barbie-Lew
BTW. The begining of the shiplist does not give name of ship line which I thought strange?
I found their arrival through Ancestry.com and through CastleGarden.org. My Klugs lived in Huron County, Michigan and in fact some descendants still live there.
I found their city of origin with the help of a genealogist. Gradually this was pieced together with some clues. The LDS website lists a Christoph Klug born 03 May 1785 in Verden who died in Visselhövede and I saw he was about the right age to my Heinrich's father. My Heinrich was born 1 Aug 1827. Then through the Huron Genealogy Society my Heinrich's death certificate was found which showed that this father's name was Christoph and that his mother's maiden name was Freudenthal. With that information my genealogist was able to find my Heinrich's birth record and trace this family back several generations.
Also I was lucky to discover a person through an Ancestry.com message board who had been to Visselhövede and had transcribed and stored the church records which included my Heinrich's marriage to Catherine Scheele in 16 Oct 1853.
What is interesting is that we have also found that my Heinrich had a half brother who immigrated to Ohio around the same time Heinrich immigrated to Michigan. So there is a branch of Klugs in Ohio as well.
Did you search the indirect Hamburg departures handwritten index for your Klug family? Not an easy task because it is not indexed. You have to browse page by page.
If not listed 1874, perhaps are listed 1873.
The surname are supposedly in alphabetical order..but they aren't exactly alphabetical. If you find then, it will give ship name which if indirect passage would not be the Republic.
Excerpt......
emigrants taking an indirect route would be only taking the Hamburg ship for part of the trip and there would be a transfer to another shipping line for subsequent sections of the journey. The most common indirect route was from Hamburg to Hull, England. Emigrants would then take a train across England to Liverpool, London, Southampton, or another port (most went to Liverpool) and continue they journey to the New World from there.
Very interesting. I didn't realize it was possible to take a train from Hamburg to England back in those days! I checked the entire direct list for the ship and it's not there. I will have to try checking indirect but I gather that the ship for that leg of the journey would not be the Republic. If they took a train, is there a record of that?
again a train over the sea ... from England to Ireland ?
sometimes it's surprising what Europeans are thought to have achieved in those days ...
and a list for train passengers - we didn't have it in the past, maybe we will see it in the future (there might be reasons ...)