Emigration to the New World
When this web site is completed, this page will have an essay on emigration from Germany. It will examine pressures to emigrate, applying for permission, ports of embarkation, cost, length of voyage, and other factors involved in leaving hearth and home for a new life in a strange land.
We hope to be able to discuss the circumstances of emigrating to both North and South America.
In the meantime at this web site we can offer:
- Leontine passenger list, 1841
- A transcription of the passenger list of the bark Leontine, which departed Bremen, Germany and arrived in Baltimore, Maryland on 28 June 1841. On board were members of the Fiegenbaum, Aufderhaar, and Bierbaum families, a total of 13 persons, emigrating from Ladbergen, the Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia to Missouri, USA.
And elsewhere on the Web are these resources:
- American Emigration from the Southern part of Oldenburg
- A lecture by Franz-Josef Tegenkamp at the Oldenburg Genealogical Society, 1997
- Emslanders to the American Mid-West
- This well-organized site concentrates on Emsland, a portion of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). It also has good general information on emigration from Germany.
- Emigration from Oldenburg, 1830-1880
- An article available in both German and English: Ostendorf, Johannes. "A History of Emigration from old Amt Damme (Oldenburg), in Particular to North America, in the Years 1830-1880," Oldenburger Jahrbuch des Landesvereins für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, 46/47 (1942-1943), pages 164-297.
- Immigration Diary of Friedrich Nohl, 1849
- The Immigration Story of Ernst Bohning, 1843
- The Bohning family of Barkhausen, Kingdom of Hanover, departed from Bremen and landed in Baltimore, Maryland, before settling in Cleveland, Ohio. Ernst Bohning was 10 years old at the time. Some many years later, he wrote down his recollections of the family's journey.
- The Immigration Diary of Michael Friedrich Radke, 1848
- Michael Friedrich Radke's memoir of the conditions of his life near Berlin, his desire for more favorable circumstances for himself and his family, their sea voyage from Bremen to Baltimore and the struggle to find a fruitful home in the USA is a compelling, but too-short document.