I am seeking information on Great Arjen Raymond RUSSMANN, born April 1858 in Hannover.
He and his family emigrated to the USA in 1868,according to Illinois census records.
The family settled in Chicago,Illinois and became shopkeepers.
I believe his father's name was Herman, but that is unproven at this point.
I understand that Arjen is a Friesen name.
I can find no information on his emigration on any Ship's List-Passenger records.
I have tried all spelling variations.
Does anyone have any RUSSMANN'S in their line from Hannover?
There were similar spellings of Russmann in Achim in 1852.
Ruschmann - Achim
R�schmann - Achim
Castle Garden shows 7 Ruschmann's 1861 to 1873, none with the names you gave. I do question the names Great and Raymond.
I found nothing in the emigration index.
Do you live close to SF? If so have you tried Sutro library on the north edge of San Francisco State? They have a large number of films of passenger lists and they are in chronological order. That still, could leave a fairly large number of ships for one year.
I found my GF's passenger list there.
Have you looked at all the census records for Arjen? Do you know for
sure what area in Germany he came from? There are a lot of various spellings
of Russmann that are given on the LDS site when you search just for that
name, as you probably know. The 1880 census is unclear–there are Russmanns
in Cook County, but not with reference to Hannover. There are references to
Prussia which would include more than the former Kingdom of Hannover. There
is a family in Iowa from Hannover in the 1880 census with names like Arjen.
Could he be part of that family (Andro, Stentge, Arelt, Gertie)? Arjen
would have been 22 at the time and maybe not in the house there anymore.
There's also an Oltman Russmann in Calif. in 1880 born in Hannover with
parents born in "Oes Friesland". Maybe he's related to Arjen–he's 25 at the
time. ???
Did Arjen's original marriage record give a birthplace? Church records
of his children that show anything? I'm not much help here, but you
probably need to do more searching from the U.S. records. Sometimes
discovering the birthplace is the hardest part of the search. I wonder if
there may be an umlaut over the "u". I wonder if Arjen could also be a
Dutch name which would mean the family came from somewhere close to the
border with the Netherlands or Ostfriesland. What religion were they?
Sorry I can't be of much help, but I'll keep looking. Variations of
Google searches can produce great information at times.