The information contained in this index is for the years 1907-1908 and 1913-1914 only. Louise 24 October Germans had to apply for permission to emigrate from most areas. Emigrants could have remained in Hamburg for a while. In I854 the German emigration by way of Havre exceeded that from Bremen by twenty thousand; while Bremen was ahead of Hamburg by twenty-five thousand, and Hamburg in turn led Antwerp by a like number.6 The com- But, as we have seen, the North Atlantic trade was preeminently a passenger trade. It was created by the Deutsches Ausland-Institut, who was interested in documenting German groups outside of Germany. 1907/1908 and 1913/1914. Sir Isaac Newton 30 October The Hapag was founded in 1847 to prevent a further concentration in Bremen of the American mail service, as well as imports from America of cotton and tobacco and exports thither of German emigrants. Knickerbocker 9 September Timoleon 22 November To receive the privilege of becoming a citizen (usually not full-status) in Hamburg required consent through the city council. Local newspapers often told of residents in their area moving to other lands. Olbers 12 December German Departures - 1850s - Immigrant Ships Bremen 21 November Previous to this, barracks were constructed to house the emigrants but the conditions were deplorable and disease spread quickly. This page has been viewed 37,687 times (3,809 via redirect). Charlemagne 15 July Significant numbers of German emigrants can be found on every continent and in many countries around the world. Semiramis 18 August Ship Virginia 7 November Copies of lists from 1907/08 and 1913/14 had been provided for statistical evaluations in Stuttgart. Washington 25 February Leo 31 August SS Aller 01 December Westphalia 31 December Albert 19 August Reform 4 September GGA Image ID # 1413c7c12c. Most emigrants left Germany during the following periods: The earliest German emigrants went down the Rhine River and left Europe from Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Emma 7 October United States 12 November Stephani 14 October Reform 4 September Ship Olbers 21 January Henry 15 October The Hamburg-American Line was established in 1847; its official name is the Hamburg- Amerikanische Paketfahrt Aktien-Gesellschaft. Ellen Brooks 28 October Charlotte 20 September Stern 25 June Post 23 June Stephani 3 June Telumah 12 November Leontine 28 June Rebecca 2 January SS Nagel 22 January Diana 11 November Bremen Emigration and Immigration FamilySearch Bark Industrie 31 October Latrobe 2 August While still cramped, hygiene was much better than the old sailing ships. For additional information about image restrictions see Restrictions for Viewing Images in FamilySearch Historical Record Collections. Edward 24 July Bark Theodor Korner 9 June Bachus 12 September Elise 1 June Friedrich Jacob 16 June Bremen 14 September Mary Phillips 9 September SS Bremen (1896) - Wikipedia Diamant 17 October arriving on 27 May 1887 with 485 passengers from Germany, Norway, Sweden, Holland, Hungary, Austria, England, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, France, Poland, Belgium and Brazil. Alfred 30 October Garonne 21 August Isabella 28 August Our research into the RMS Laconia and SS Bergensfjord, the ships that brought two members of the Gjnvik family from Norway to the United States in the early 20th century, has helped us design our site for other genealogists. Until 1850, Bremen was a more popular port than Hamburg. Telumah 12 November Elizabeth 15 January Goethe 7 July Clarissa Perkins 11 July Ship Leontine 31 August Everhard 25 May Alwina 11 January Philadelphia 10 October From 1850 to 1891, 41 percent of German and east European emigrants left via the port of Bremen (Germany), 30 percent via Hamburg (Germany), 16 percent via Le Havre (France), 8 percent via Antwerp (Belgium), and 5 percent via several ports in the Netherlands. Brig Apollo 13 August Friedrich Leo 2 August The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Howard 6 September The independent-minded skipper could disobey orders again by allowing his ship, the passenger liner Bremen, the jewel of the German . Elise 19 July SS Weser (1867) - Wikipedia Sophronia 13 September Bark Meridian 16 September Diana 5 August Philadelphia 12 September 1843 These usually focus on the emigrants from one town, principality, or state. SS Neckar 14 April, 1888 The Deutschland, the Hapags only express steamer, paid for with the proceeds of the sale to Spain of obsolete Hapag liners, at the time of the Spanish-American war. In 1882 the Woermann Line, originally a branch of the famous Hamburg mercantile house of Woermann, was established to West Africa. One of the great losses in genealogical history is the nearly complete destruction of the Bremen passenger records. Philadelphia 11 May Brig Anna Louisa 31 July U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes. Bark Gutenberg 16 May Howard 22 October Schutzverwandtschaft (17th century-1811,1837-1864), U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes, "Emigration from the Port of Hamburg, Germany. Isabella 5 July ", Hamburg Passenger Lists, Handwritten Indexes, 1855-1934, Germans to America and the Hamburg Passenger Lists: Coordinated Schedules, The Hamburg Passenger Departure Lists 1850-1934. Emma 12 March 1841 1845 Bremen, Germany Ships Crew Lists (Bremer Musterungslisten der Schiffe), Bremen, Germany Sailors Registry (Bremer Seeleuteregister), Bremen, German Desertions of Sailors, 1855-1874 (Seemansamt Bremen, Deserteurlisten, 1855-1874, Germany, Bremen, Select Passenger Departure Lists (Deutschland, Bremen, ausgewhlte Namenskartei aus den Bremer Schiffslisten), Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists (Deutschland, Bremen, Namenskartei aus den Bremer Schiffslisten), The Hamburg Passenger Departure Lists 1850-1934. Pauline 9 October 1845 When the allies occupied Germany at the end of WWII, the Institute was closed and later re-opened as the Institut fr Austlandsbeziehungen. Lucilla 3rd Quarter Immigration & Steamships - Collections & Research United States 12 November Grace Brown 17 July Westphalia 17 February 1845 Diana 21 November SS Trave 17 December Lucilla 3 August Bachus 12 September SS Rhein 13 January Bark Johanna 18 May, 1876 Philadelphia 11 May Howard 22 October Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. Ship Isabella 4 October, 1838 Diana 5 August 1874 - lists 1832-1872 burned Ship Itzstein & Welcker 6 January Sophronia 13 September Elizabeth Bruce 12 November Ship O. Thyen 23 June, 1855 Bark Ella 26 November, 1852 Sir Isaac Newton 30 October General Veazie 5 November Margaretha 1 September Friedrich Jacob 16 June 1845 Virginia 26 June Diana 24 November The information is reliable; however, as this index has been derived from the actual passenger lists, errors may have occurred during the indexing process. Ship Joseph Holmes 20 September Johannes 7 June Edwina 30 June to retrieve any portion of the site. Ann 1 September Bremen, Germany. Marianne 20 September Kammonham Roy 18 August Hualco 21 August Washington 26 October Eutaw 15 September Telumah 12 November Albert 19 August Diamant 17 October Washington 25 February Barque Diana 12 June, 1862 Philadelphia 10 October SS Elbe 9 July Steamer New York 13 May Latrobe 2 August Moreover, Hamburg was learning from Bremen how to and attract emigrants. Louise 21 May Copernicus 4 August Bark Coriolan 26 June Marianne 20 September Sju Brder 22 November Diana 3 June Hualco 21 August Ships are so equipped that certain decks may serve as cargo space for the east-bound trip and in Bremen and Hamburg be transformed into steerage quarters for the west-bound. Garonne 21 August SS Arago 12 June Louise 12 October Sophie 19 August Philadelphia 10 October SS Main (1927) was a 7,624-ton passenger/cargo ship completed in January 1927 by Bremer Vulkan in Bremen-Vegesack, Germany, for Norddeutscher Lloyd. Johann Friedrich 19 June http://FamilySearch.org : 18 July 2022. Margaretha 1 September Westphalia 17 February Any description of the development or present status of Hamburg lines must center in the Hamburg-American Line. Caspar 22 September Bremen started her South America cruise on 11 February 1939, and was the first ship of this size to traverse the Panama Canal. Elise 8 September Pioneer 21 September Stephani 12 July SS Lahn 22 December. Washington 26 October Friedrich Leo 2 August 1945 - records of 1907-1945 destroyed in bombing raid, Between 1875 to 1908, the staff of the "Nachweisungsbureau", who lacked office space, decided to destroy all passenger lists older than 3 years. Philadelphia 4 January Ship Emigrant 3 September Friederich Jacob 9 December SS Leipzig 24 February SS Knig Wilhelm 5 September Henry 15 October Ernst and Gustav 4 November Bremen 14 September SS Baltimore 21 March Albert 17 February Albert 19 August Borgstede 22 May . Devonshire 18 November Luise 3 January Brarens 18 January An agreement of July 1999 between the Bremen Chamber of Commerce and the Bremen Society for Genealogical Investigation, DIE MAUS ("The Mouse"), provides the basis for digitizing the passenger lists by members of DIE MAUS (i.e. Elizabeth Bruce 12 November For example, from 1841-1846, 115,000 emigrants left Europe via Bremen; however, only 11,000 emigrants departed via Hamburg. Arab 8 September Johann Friedrich 19 June Mercur 24 August Humphrey 13 February Camera 13 December Neptune 4 August The Hapag began business with three copper-bottomed sailing ships of together 1,600 register tons, and with a capital of 460,000 marks. Bark E.J. There are approximately 125,000 names in all four volumes combined. Knickerbocker 9 September Diana 24 November Ship D.H. Watjen 25 November, 1862 Bark E. Beaulien 6 January These books index the names of passengers from passenger lists of ships that arrived in New York from Bremen. These records, created by the Deutsches Ausland-Institut, were subsequently transferred to the Bundesarchiv. Knickerbocker 9 September The Lloyd, founded in 1857, never possessed a sailing vessel. The freight business of the Hapag began to dwarf its passenger business even on the New York line. Louise 17 June Goethe 25 July History of Emigration from the German Ports of Hamburg and Bremen with a discussion of how the two major steamship companies competed with one another for the immigrant trade. Lists of emigrants are often published. Key words are Brgerbcher, Brgerprotokolle (1596-1902) as well as Heimatscheinprotokolle (1826-1872). Margaretha 1 September Stephani 3 June Eliza Thornton 30 October Isabella 28 August Alfred 30 October Diana 3 June SS Berlin 23 August Caspar 21 August Bark Pallas 6 July Diana 24 November Bremen 9 August She started her maiden voyage on 5 June 1897, traveling from Bremen to New York with a stopover at Southampton.In addition to the transatlantic run she also sailed from Bremen to Australia via the Suez Canal.. On 30 June 1900, she was badly damaged in a dockside fire at the NDL pier in Hoboken, New Jersey. This second rate-war gave the Hapag its present brilliant manager, Albert Ballin, who was taken over from the Carr line; and it taught the company the raine of timely compromise in ocean warfare. The extent of original materials at the GG Archives can be very beneficial when researching your family's migration from Europe. Dethard 2 January Luntine 23 June Antilope 13 August Passenger Arrival Lists | National Archives Mads Weil 1 October Bremen Packet 28 May Friederich Jacob 9 December Olbers 12 December Cordova 24 November SS Maer 27 January SS Leipzig 4 August Clementine 28 July Rajah 28 October Then, in 1874, the authorities (the "Nachweisungsbureau"), citing a lack of space, destroyed all Bremen passenger records except for those of the current year and the two previous years. FamilySearch. SS Saale - Wikipedia The index was created to facilitate access to the information in the Bremen passenger lists. Depending on the time period, either German Civil Registration records or German Church records may be more useful, While searching, it is helpful to know such information as the ancestors given name and surname, some identifying information such as residence and age, and family relationships. Sju Brder 22 November The Hapag, which had paid 12, 16 and 20 per cent dividends in the years 1871-73, paid no more dividends until 1878. SS Baltimore 14 August, 1870 Ellen Brooks 28 October Sju Brder 22 November Stephani 14 October Bark Clara 17 May Sophie 19 August The ships will exchange oil, tobacco, flour, machinery, cotton goods and food productspractically every ship will be a department store afloatfor mahogany, palm oil, rubber, ivory, cacao, and copper. Sophie 19 August Bark Inca 12 August Ship Marianne 20 September Philadelphia 4 January Bashan 3 November [6] In 1866 Adolph Wagner wrote an article on Ocean Transportation in Rentschs Handwrterbuch der Volkswirtschaftslehre. Eliza Thornton 30 October In the case of emigrants to the U.S., that next best source is the U.S. Customs Passenger Lists. The SS Bremen was built by F. Schichau of Danzig for the Norddeutscher-Lloyd line. These have been transcribed and put online here. Constitution 23 June Isobella 27 April Bark Jupiter 7 September Weser was an ocean liner built in 1867 for North German Lloyd. Johann Georg 5 June SS Berlin 5 December, 1872 General Washington 24 November, 1845 Bashan 3 November SS Hermann 5 October, 1883 N W Stevens 23 October By David Luhrssen. Contact Us. Current database may be searched at the museum in Bremerhaven or by mail for a fee. The records also name the ship and the date of departure. Johannes 18 July Sir Isaac Newton 19 June In order to do this, the companys capital was increased from sixteen and one half to twenty-two and one half million marks; it had to be scaled down to fifteen million in 1877. Republic 13 June Bark Eduard 13 August Mercur 24 August Camera 13 December Apollo 7 July Figures of the Landing Agent of the United States Immigration Service, published in New York papers, January 11, 1911.). The ships will have special provision for wild animals, whose food, supplied by the shippers, will be carried free. It is a common form of agreement in Germany and one by which the all-powerful Hapag has come to have a share in nearly every other profitable steamship company in Hamburg. Starting in 1895, emigrants were segregated based on wealth. Many emigrants from Germany, Austria and Central Europe headed for the German port of Hamburg. Caroline 23 July Therefore, if your ancestors emigrated to the U.S. from Germany, they could be found on a passenger list coming from Liverpool, England (if, in this case, the ship left from Bremen, Germany then continued on to Liverpool, England before arriving in Baltimore). Any description of the development or present status of Hamburg lines must center in the Hamburg-American Line. Paoli 20 December Friedrich Jacob 16 June 1842 Bremen Ship Passengers 1904-1914 | FEEFHS Philadelphia 12 September Apollo 7 July The cards appear to have been in good condition when they were microfilmed in 1988. Josephine 8 November Edward 24 July Luise 3 January B. Bohlen 11 June Apollo 13 August Diana 21 November This website requires a paid subscription for full access. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. Stephani 8 February Devonshire 18 November Clarissa Perkins 11 July Caspar 29 June Ship Jason 7 December, 1853 Bremen 12 August Bashan 3 November Sophie 16 June This list was derived from National Archives records, then compared with Germans to America, and in some cases, microfilm of the passenger lists. Edwina 30 June Brunswick 17 October, 1836 Yet the cloud had a silver lining. Margaretha 1 September Favorite 12 November Only a few Germans emigrated from other European ports. Stern 9 July Martha 1 September Bark Atlantic 10 June, 1866 Diamant 17 October Howard 22 October Rajah 28 October [8] K. Thiess : Die Hamburg-Amerika Linie, page 34. Clarissa Perkins 11 July Apollo 7 July Constitution 23 June Diana 24 November United States 12 November United States 12 November Diamant 17 October Amelia 4 August Isabella 28 August People had to swear alliegiance, pay a yearly fee, and report all suspicious actvities. Elise 17 March [2] Fitger: Die wirtschaftliche und technische Entwicklung der Seeschiffahrt, 1903, page 19. Paoli 20 December . Bremen 4 December Kepler 17 December If you find an ancestor on a ship on ISTG and would like to link to your email address or home page, please submit a short paragraph about the passenger, where settled, children, etc., with the name of the ship and date of arrival, and send to the . Trenton 16 December Bremen 14 September Europa 23 June Bremen 4 December Bark Coriolan 30 August Bremen had had a packet sailing line to New York since 1826. Bark Eliza Thornton 30 October The port of Bremen, Germany was a major point of embarkation for emigrations during the 19th and 20th centuries. ISTG - Bremen Departures - Immigrant Ships Ship H. von Gagern 12 October Friedrich Jacob 16 June Howard 1 May There was a Meldepflicht (obligation to register) in force since 1833 (mainly for non-Hamburgers), but it was not mandatory until 1892. Grace Brown 17 July The ships will call at a hundred or more places on the west coast. Bremen Passenger Lists - Public-Juling History of Emigration from the German Ports of Hamburg and Bremen with a discussion of how the two major steamship companies competed with one another for the immigrant trade. After docking in New York on August 28, 1939, only four days before the outbreak of World War II, Captain Adolf Ahrens of Germany's North German Lloyd shipping line was faced with a decision. Louis 25 June To improve Hamburg's reputation as an emigration port, the Senate passed laws to protect emigrants and guaranteed sufficient food, space, and medical care on the journey. Repeat this process for each new generation you identify. Bremen became part of the North German Confederation in 1867 and became an autonomous component state of the new-founded German Empire in 1871. Study how to use this resource by clicking here: Hamburg Passenger Lists. Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. Gustav 23 October The S.S. Bremen: Last Voyage of a Luxury Liner Knickerbocker 9 September SS General Werder 1 April N W Stevens 23 October Ship Monmouth 23 December, 1854 General Veazie 8 November Humphrey 10 July This compiled list can help you identify possible relations that can be further verified by researching, When you have located your ancestors record, carefully evaluate each piece of information given. Kepler 17 December Created & Maintained by the ISTGImmigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC The New Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild logo was designed by Patty MacFarlane. Barque Eberhard 8 November Constitution 7 April This card file was created by the Deutsches Ausland-Institut from Bremen passenger ship lists sometime between WWI and WWII. 1842 Ann 1 September Albert 19 August The initial letters of the official name spell the word Hapag and it is as Hapag that the line is popularly known. These records are written in German. Mauran 11 November SS Main 6 October, 1878 In 1888 the Carr steamers were purchased; the 1886 agreement with Sloman ran on until 1907, when his steamers also were bought. Online Ship Passenger Lists and Records - German Roots Goethe 7 July Grace Brown 17 July SS Ohio 4 March Copyright 1996-2023 Cyndi Ingle, CyndisList.com. SS Baltimore 18 July Maria Francisca 10 December Please be aware some collections consist only of partial information indexed from the records and do not contain any images. Brig Stern 7 September Bark Mississippi 10 June Diamant 17 October Isabella 28 August Bark Franziska 6 December, 1850 Pauline 7 October This article describes a collection of records at FamilySearch.org. SS Baltimore 14 December [4], Emigration to the United States from Europe for Selected Years Between 1870 and 1907. Ferdinand 15 August Ajax 11 September Diana 3 June Post 23 June Louisa 25 September Lucilla 3rd Quarter All content on these electronic pages may NOT be obtained by unacceptable means Herschel 15 August Isabella 28 August Goethe 7 July The Norddeutscher Lloyd - Passenger lists and Emigrant ships from Ship Elise 8 September Josephine 8 November Louise 21 May A P Sharp 12 November . Philadelphia 12 July Bachus 12 September Bark Gauss 5 December Louise 17 June General Veazie 5 November Bark Stella 15 October, 1869 Emigration via Hamburg dropped to 78,808 in 1908; in Bremen it dropped to 74,626. Constitution 7 April Brarens 18 January Bremen 9 August SS Donau 29 April, 1879 Alexander 25 July Louise 17 May Semiramis 18 August This collection includes records from 1904 to 1914 of handwritten cards, covering the information of approximately 8,800 passengers. Latrobe 2 August Charles 28 August Antilope 13 August N W Stevens 23 October Bark Clara 23 December, 1873 Sarah Ann 6 October Everhard 30 December Diana 11 November Charlemagne 15 July FamilySearch Wiki - Germany Emigration and Immigration, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1847-1854, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1855-1862, With Places of Origin, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1863-1867, With Places of Origin, German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound from Bremen to New York, 1868-1871, Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - Bremen, Germany. It was a war that lasted three years. Republic 13 June 1832 Brig Forest 13 February. Eliza Thornton 30 October Tap or click on a vessel to view images. Deutsches Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven / German Emigration Center Bremerhaven, Europe's largest and most modern theme museum on the topic of emigration and winner of the prestigious award, FamilySearch - Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 Paoli 20 December Their nearest rival was the Cunard Line, which in 1906 landed in New York from its British and its Mediterranean services 107,790 steerage passengers.In 1906-07 the two German lines handled approximately one fourth the total American immigration. Immigration & Steamships - Collections & Research Immigration & Steamships Tap or click on a column heading to sort by that column. F H Adami 25 October Isabella 5 July Herschel 15 August Steamer Ohio 31 July F H Adami 25 October Sometimes these notes include the year of emigration and names of those who went with the person. Given the loss of Bremen departure lists, researches in search of embarkees from that port must fall back on arrival lists. The "Ordinance Concerning the Emigration Traveling on Domestic or Foreign Ships" of 1832 in Bremen was the first state law to protect emigrants. Marianne 16 October Pioneer 21 September Elise 1 January This relation* was formerly 3:1 or 4:1 in sailing ships. anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. Josephine 8 November 121-24. The GG Archives is the work and passion of two people, Paul Gjenvick, a professional archivist, and Evelyne Gjenvick, a curator. Inez 2 December Constitution 23 June I Found the Person I Was Looking For, What Now? 1874-1907 - lists destroyed every 2 years Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild 5 May 2010. The American merchant marine had been destroyed and foreign carriers came into its heritage. Ship Aurora 19 September Ernst and Gustav 4 November The Hapag has no connection with the Hamburg-Australian ; there was long, apparently, an understanding between the Hapag and the Lloyd that Australia should be left to the Lloyd, in return for which the latter kept her hands off Africa. ISTG Vol 19 - Bremen Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild Bremen List of Passengers arrived from Foreign Ports, In the Port of Galveston, during the Second Quarter (10 May), 1871 (John Hellmers, Master) Conditions improved for emigrants in 1870 with the commission of new steamships.