Semiramis 18 August Bark Creole 30 September General Washington 24 November, 1844 Hamburg became the most important emigration port in Germany by 1900. SS Leipzig 30 August Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild. Friedrich Jacob 16 June General Veazie 8 November Sarah Ann 6 October German Departures - 1840s - Immigrant Ships This can help you identify other generations of your family. Westphalia 31 December Elise 1 January Diana 5 August Elizabeth Bruce 12 November Devonshire 18 November Meta 4 January Favorite 12 November SS General Werder 1 April Ernst and Gustav 30 June In Germany, Bremen had a good reputation as a port of departure because its laws forced shipowners to provide a basic minimum of space and food. Everhard 30 December Charlotte 20 September Diana 21 November The Hapags three sailing vessels of 1848 maintained a monthly service with New York, averaging forty-one days on the ocean west-bound, twenty-nine days east-bound. SS Hermann 5 October, 1883 This page was last edited on 29 December 2022, at 13:55. Alwina 11 January This page was last edited on 29 December 2022, at 13:54. Stephani 12 July Online searchable database of passenger lists. Washington 29 September ISTG NOTICE: These electronic pages are Copyright 1998-2023 and may NOT be Bark Stella 15 October, 1869 Camera 13 December Republic 13 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. Some of these records are available through the FamilySearch Catalog under Place Search (Hamburg), Naturalization and citizenship (Heimatbcher 1826-1864), Population (Meldeprotokolle fr Fremde 1868-1889) and Immigration (Reisepassprotokolle 1851-1929). Marianne 20 July Bremen 4 December Hualco 21 August Paoli 20 December Constitution 7 April Mercur 24 August Apollo 7 July Reform 4 September Caspar 29 June Bark Edmund 3 November Hardly had the Hapag recovered from its first rate-war when, m 188$, a second broke out. As passenger traffic increased, Dutch, Belgian, French, and Danish ports were used. Bark Clara 17 December, 1868 Sarah Ann 6 October Ship O. Thijen 8 November, 1856 . Alfred 30 October Johann Friedrich 19 June Constitution 23 June Luise 22 May Ship Phoenix 19 May Philadelphia 12 September SS Saale - Wikipedia Galliott Flora 21 May Isabella 5 July Alexander 25 July Bark Johanna 18 May, 1876 [6] In 1866 Adolph Wagner wrote an article on Ocean Transportation in Rentschs Handwrterbuch der Volkswirtschaftslehre. 1832 Brig Forest 13 February. She was capable of carrying 1,240 passengers: 150 in first class, 90 in second class, and up to a thousand in . Philadelphia 4 January Among other things it required the ship owners to maintain passenger lists. Leo 31 August 1844 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. Rajah 28 October But, as the German emigration died down, the Hapag and Lloyd concluded a treaty with the other continental transatlantic lines, whereby the German lines were to have the transportation of East European emigrants to the United States. Apollo 13 August Repeat this process for each new generation you identify. Ship Elise 8 September This article describes a collection of records at FamilySearch.org. Ship Jason 7 December, 1853 Between 1830 and 1914, more than four million people left Europe via Hamburg. Eutaw 15 September When the allies occupied Germany at the end of WWII, the Institute was closed and later re-opened as the Institut fr Austlandsbeziehungen. Charlotte 20 September Mauran 11 November 1907/1908 and 1913/1914. Philadelphia 10 October Brig Joh Dethard 15 December Edwina 30 June The experiences on the ship (and the immigration process into the United States) depended on which class of passengers an emigrant was a part of: first, second, or steerage. Emma 7 October In the 19th century emigration to the United States began. Clementine 18 January Intends to provide a searchable database of all European emigrants who emigrated to North America from German ports between 1820 and 1939. Margaretha 1 September A P Sharp 12 November . Bark Geestemunde 9 June Bark Atlantic 10 June, 1866 Louise 10 October Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. Eliza Thornton 30 October Ferdinand 15 August Martha 1 September Latrobe 2 August They are transcribed also. On June 19, 1858, at 6 o'clock in the afternoon; the "Bremen" left the wharf at Bremerhaven on her maiden voyage to New York, carrying 100 tons of freight, 1 cabin and 93- steerage passengers. SS Baltimore 14 December Diana 21 November Isabella 28 August Alfred 30 October Hamburg Emigration/Immigration FamilySearch When in 1910 the Hapag and Woermann decided to establish a direct connection between New York and West Africa, they announced the following program:[7] The steamship Carl Woermann will begin in December a new and direct service between this port and the west coast of Africa, under the joint auspices of the Hamburg- American and Woermann lines. Bashan 3 November anyone without the express written consent of the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild LLC. Cordova 24 November Sju Brder 22 November SS Berlin 23 August Cyndi's List - Ports of Departure - Bremen, Germany reproduced in whole or part in any format for presentation, distribution or profit by 1843 Diana 21 November Stern 9 July However, about 3000 lists survived for the period from 1920-1939. SS Donau 8 January The struggle was terminated in 1886, when the Hapag and the Union companies combined their schedules. Sophie 19 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. 1843 SS Baltimore 18 July The part the German lines play in the transportation of these hordes is exceptionally large. The contest ended in 1875, when the Hapag unwillingly purchased the Adler steamers. Sir Isaac Newton 19 June Mauran 11 November Emma 7 October Isabella 28 August Globe 17 September Bremen, along with Hamburg and Luebeck, was of of the three major trans-shipping centers from northern Germany. Ship Virginia 7 November Pauline 9 October 1849/1850 Karl W. Klber: Bremen and Hamburg emigration lists. Agnes 29 December Washington 25 February [5] 1907 Report of the United States Commissioner of Navigation, pages 146-7. Bashan 3 November Astracan 23 December The improved conditions of the ships also improved the port's reputation. Washington 29 September 1845 Kepler 17 December Sometimes they also show family groups. Clarissa Perkins 11 July Stephani 30 December Aboard a Packet | National Museum of American History Rebecca 2 January Elise 17 March Bark Weser 26 November, 1867 Josephine 8 November Maria Francisca 10 December Favorite 18 June Immigration & Steamships - Collections & Research Arab 8 September So the Hapag and the German Levant Line instituted the direct connection themselves and continued it for three years. Germans had to apply for permission to emigrate from most areas. Diamant 17 October Caspar 22 September Schutzverwandtschaft (17th century-1811,1837-1864), U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes, "Emigration from the Port of Hamburg, Germany. Bark Ottillie 5 July, 1866 Many emigrants from Germany, Austria and Central Europe headed for the German port of Hamburg. Ship Monmouth 23 December, 1854 Howard 6 September Stephanie 26 July Bremen Packet 16 October Edward 24 July German towns began keeping records of each person's residence in the 1840s. Ship Pharsalia 11 November, 1849 Bremen 9 August There was a Meldepflicht (obligation to register) in force since 1833 (mainly for non-Hamburgers), but it was not mandatory until 1892. As many as one-fifth of the passengers did not survive the crossing to America. Martha 1 September Ship President Smidt 28 August Whenever possible FamilySearch makes images and indexes available for all users. Semiramis 18 August Elise 6 December Constitution 15 November Brig Herschel 21 May, 1854 Pauline 7 October Mary Phillips 9 September United States 12 November This website requires a paid subscription for full access. 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. Favorite 12 November Bark Gutenberg 16 May Paoli 20 December In the year ending December 31, 1910, there were landed in New York, by the three leading companies in the passenger and emigrant business, the following number of persons: Cabin and Steerage Pastengert Landed in New York, 1910. Stephani 14 October Ship Leontine 31 August The American Civil War was over and commerce was renewed with the Union, which needed supplies to repair the devastation that had been wrought. Reform 4 September Bark Pallas 6 July Marianne 20 September This practice was followed until 1909, when customs officials resumed the earlier pattern of preserving the original copies of all emigration lists. Eliza Thornton 30 October Bark Mississippi 10 June Louise 24 October Philadelphia 22 August Henry 15 October Philadelphia 12 September In Germany, Bremen had a good reputation as a port of departure because its laws forced shipowners to provide a basic minimum of space and food. coasting vessels from North Germany,4 and even from Norway5 for transshipment to America. SS Lahn 22 December. Passenger Ships from Bremen to New York in 1866 - German Roots This policy gave Bremen on the entire continent a reputation that still endures and is worth to her thousands of emigrants yearly. By 1867 the last of the sailers was sold. Louise 13 October Iris 24 December Reform 4 September For example, from 1841-1846, 115,000 emigrants left Europe via Bremen; however, only 11,000 emigrants departed via Hamburg. Garonne 21 August Bark Iris 13 June Louise 13 October 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. Goethe 25 July Bachus 12 September Louis 25 June The extent of original materials at the GG Archives can be very beneficial when researching your family's migration from Europe. Virginia 26 June Clarissa Perkins 11 July Emigration & Immigration Records - Passenger Lists, Naturalization German Departures 1850s Ohio Elise Columbia Columbia Johannes Leontine Meta Europa Brutus Brutus Herschel Leila Alexander Leibnitz Hudson FJ Wichelhausen Louise Marie Louise Marie President Smidt Hermann Ernestine Adolphine Minna Queen Mathilde Colonist Neptune Edmund Uhland Anna Washington Itzstein and Welcker Marianne Helene Albert America Ocean Germany Emigration and Immigration FamilySearch The considerable traffic from New York to the Levant, transshipped at Hamburg, was threatened by the prospect in 1901 that a direct Russian or Italian line would be established. Devonshire 18 November SS Leipzig 4 August Agnes 29 December Edwina 30 June Martha 1 September Who Should Emigrate to Canada and USA (1883), Emigration of Women from Great Britain in 1888, In The Paths of Immigration to America - 1902, Emigration from Rotterdam, Netherlands (1903), Considering The Causes of Emigration (1904), Italy's Attitude Toward Her Emigrants - 1905, The Human Side of Immigration - Italian Emigration to America (1906), Emigrants leaving Europe via Rotterdam (1908), Emigration from the German Ports of Hamburg and Bremen (1911), Medical & Mental Inspection of Immigrants. Kammonham Roy 18 August SS Ohio 29 December, 1874 Compile the entries for every person who has the same surname; this is especially helpful in rural areas or if the surname is unusual. SS Donau 29 April, 1879 Emma 7 October Previous to this, barracks were constructed to house the emigrants but the conditions were deplorable and disease spread quickly. Margaretha 1 September Baltimore, Maryland, U.S., Passenger Lists, 1820-1964 - Ancestry.com Galliot Themis 24 July Olbers 12 December Philadelphia 10 October The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, Inc. https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Hamburg_Emigration/Immigration&oldid=5187154. Steamer New York 13 May Post 23 June 1843 Current database may be searched at the museum in Bremerhaven or by mail for a fee. Louise 17 May Virginia 26 June Caspar 21 August F H Adami 25 October Admiral Branning 1 November There were enacted in Bremen severe regulations against ill-housing, underfeeding, swindling or otherwise maltreating emigrants, matters to which Hamborg was too long indifferent. Reform 4 September Mercur 24 August Hualco 21 August Friedrich Leo 2 August A P Sharp 12 November Isobella 27 April Ship Caledonia 18 December, 1839 The rates offered by the competing companies had drawn freight away from the sailers, and the Hapag did not let it return. Bark Meridian 16 September The Galveston-Bremen Project The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. Marianne 20 September Bark Amaranth 20 November Barque Diana 12 June, 1862 Brig Bremen 18 July Pioneer 2 September Friederich Jacob 9 December ISTG NOTICE: These electronic pages are Copyright 1998-2023 and may NOT be SS Bremen (1928) - Wikipedia Caspar 22 September German Research: Hansel and Gretel: Finding our German ancestors' trail home, Internet Resources for Finding 19th Century German Emigrants, Germany - Emigration and immigration - Indexes, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach), https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Germany_Emigration_and_Immigration&oldid=5044874, Dozens of other published emigrant lists are listed in the Place Search of the. Sophie 16 June Howard 22 October Emma 7 October Pioneer 21 September Goethe 25 July Louise 17 June Westphalia 17 February Republic 13 June Bark Laura 25 November Brig Neptune 14 October [1] In view of the luxury that prevails on the companys New York boats and the prices which passengers must pay for it, it is suggested that the initial letters mean, Haben alle Passagiere auch Geld? (Are all passengers well supplied with money?). Stephani 30 December A letter given to the traveler made his passage within and outside of German territories easier, depending on the influence the issuer had. Germany, Bremen Passenger Departure Lists, 1904-1914 Caspar 29 June Clarissa Perkins 11 July Copernicus 18 December Emma 7 October Telumah 12 November Sometimes these notes include the year of emigration and names of those who went with the person. Post 23 June Louise 17 June Starting in 1895, emigrants were segregated based on wealth. Charlotte 1 June Brig Weser 29 December, 1846 Bremen 9 August Republic 13 June General Veazie 8 November Copernicus 18 December Johannes 7 November In the last two centuries Bremen and Hamburg have been the two major German port cities for shipping lines serving North and South America as well as to and from Australia and Asia. Yet the cloud had a silver lining. Brig Ivanhoe 31 July, 1836 Howard 22 October Luise 3 January Josephine 8 November Elizabeth Bruce 12 November Albert 19 August Mercur 24 August SS Main - Wikipedia Isabella 28 August Louise 10 October ISTG Vol 19 - Bremen - Immigrant Ships Freight could not be profitably transported by steamers until the introduction of the compound engine, which greatly reduced the quantity of fuel to be carried; before this time so much of the carrying capacity of the ship had to be devoted to coal-bunkers that freight had to pay rates which could not compare with those offered by the sailing vessels.[6]. ISTG NOTICE: These electronic pages are Copyright 1998-2023 and may NOT be Lucilla 3 August U.S. and German Passenger Lists and Indexes. Eliza Thornton 30 October Bark Laura 22 April Bremen 21 November Paoli 9 August Includes "Ship Lists of Passengers Leaving France for Louisiana" (1718-1724) originally published in the Louisiana Historical Society Quarterly Website: New Orleans Passenger Arrival Lists 1813 Delivered to ship breakers for scrapping in April 1961. Mary Phillips 9 September Johann Friedrich 19 June Elise 8 September Latrobe 2 August Favorite 12 November Sarah Ann 6 October Favorite 12 November Pauline 7 October Eutaw 15 September All content on these electronic pages may NOT be obtained by unacceptable means Ship Aequator 5 September Except for the discovery of transcripts of Bremen lists for the years 1907-1908 and 1913-1914 at the German State Archives in Koblentz, no copies of the Bremen passenger lists have ever come to light. This attracted even more emigrants to the port of Hamburg. Kepler 17 December Emigrant letters could be examined but any sample of fares that could be obtained would be small and of unclear accuracy. Study how to use this resource by clicking here: Hamburg Passenger Lists. Philadelphia 22 August Stephanie 26 July Galliot Amphitrite 17 October, 1837 Antilope 13 August Before this, conditions on the ships were not good; there was inadequate food and overcrowded rooms. Deutschland, Bremen, Namenskartei aus den Bremen Schiffslisten, Use the age to find an approximate birth year to begin your search in church or civil records, Continue to search the records to identify children, siblings, parents, and other relatives who may have moved, been recruited or lived nearby. Marianne 20 July Johann Georg 5 June SS Neckar 14 April, 1888 New Orleans, Louisiana Passenger Lists - How to Find Them - German Roots Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild is independently owned. They can list the emigrant's birthplace, residence, assets, and indebtedness. Devonshire 18 November Heretofore all trade between the United States and the west coast has been carried by way of Hamburg and Liverpool. Showing 1 to 8 of 320 records Clear All Filters Vessel Year built Line Builder & location The year 1871, when the Empire was formed, saw the Hamburg lines multiply. Bremen 4 December Caroline 23 July Stephani 14 October Paoli 9 August Olbers 4 April Because of this there may be limitations on where and how images and indexes are available or who can see them. The Kosmos also has a line from Genoa to West America and in the course of its career has bought up the rival Hamburg Pacific Steamship Company. 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. Diamant 17 October Stern 9 July Astracan 23 December Henry 15 October If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. Humphrey 10 July Profit and loss are distributed according to the tonnage of steamers which each company supplies.