Sandy,
Your dead end presented a fun challenge today. Fortunately, you had enough
clues to lead me to what I believe is the Sievers family town of origin.
The Missouri death records are on-line for 1928 when Gottlieb Sievers died.
In "Gottliev" Sievers death record, Mahala gives his birthdate as July 26, 1847.
Unfortunately, she did not know his parents names only that he was born in
Hannover.
You seemed quite certain that we had his passenger list record. The key was that
while the Americans wrote down the passenger lists when they arrived - the
Germans did so when they boarded. The American passenger lists often do
not include the exact town of origin only Hannover (Kingdom of) or Hessia, etc.
However, the German lists (namely the Hamburg lists) typically do specify by town.
Thus, since we knew the ship name, arrival date, port of departure, namely
Hamburg, I accessed the Hamburg passenger lists. Since Borussia sailed
directly to New York, I looked on ancestry.com's Hamburg Passenger Lists.
Click on Immigration records and then click on Hamburg Passenger Lists (1850-1934).
Then choose the years (1860-1869) and then Direkt Band 017 since it was a
direct voyage in May of 1863.
At that point I simply started looking through the 411 images (with some
guestimating on travel times, etc.) and landed on image 108 of 411 where I found
the passenger list for the ship, Borussia and the following passenger:
Sievers, Gottl "Doegerode" Hannover Fleischer 15
Of course, the handwriting is quite bad. I have interpreted the town as Doegerode.
Perhaps others who also have access to this ancestry database can weigh in too
if I have interpreted it correctly.
Now, D�gerode is currently a part of Kalefeld and is located in the present state of lower saxony or Niedersachsen.
Perhaps, others can share whether it belonged to the Kingdom of Hannover as I am
unfamiliar with the area. However, further research should help you clarify the town
and its location as well as the available church records.
Hopefully, a review of the local church records for D�gerode will find both Gottlieb
and Heinrich Gottlieb's baptismal records.
I enjoyed the challenge and hope this helps you make the link back to Germany.
I would encourage you to obtain the church marriage records for both Heinrich Gottlieb
and Gottlieb Sievers in America, as you should find further proof of their parents and/or
confirmation of their town of origin. Additionally, check the church's burial records too.
Best of luck in your continued research,
Bob Behnen
Kirksville, MO
Hi Bob,
I just checked my email......and feel like it is Christmas Day all over again!! Thank you so very much! I too have Ancestry, but could never open the emmigration part. Plus if I could, have I can not read German. So I did the next step...I wrote to Hamburg and sent $40.00 for a search. But that was 6 months ago and i have not heard anything(yet). I just don't know how to thank you, other than to "pay it forward". I have had people contact me because of my Sievers/Laurent Family Tree in Ancestry. And I promise you, I will always help others in their search!
As for the marriage certificates, I have Heinrich Gottlieb's second,but not the first. I have both of Gottlieb Sievers( my gg uncle). I found death certificates on the Mo. site "sos". Is that where you found Gottlieb's
Please pardon my spelling......I am VERY happy!
Blessings & Joy,
sandy sievers cooper
(from Doegerode,Germany!!)