Bark Anna
I, Jac Wessels, Master of the Bark Anna, do solemnly, sincerely and truly swear that the following List or Manifest, subscribed by me, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs of the Collection District of New York, is a full and perfect list of all the passengers taken on board the said Bremen Bark Anna at Bremen from which port said Bremen Bark Anna has now arrived; and that on said list is truly designated the age, the sex and the occupation of each of said passengers, the part of the vessel occupied by each during the passage, the country to which each belongs, and also the country of which it is intended by each to become an inhabitant; and that said List or Manifest truly sets forth the number of said passengers who have died on said voyage, and the names and ages of those who died.
Sworn to this 29th Oct 1838So help me God,
before me ________________(illegible signature)
(signed) Jac Wessels
List or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Bark Anna whereof Jac Wessels is master, from Bremen, burthen 382 tons.
Coloumns represent: Names, age in years and months, religion, occupation, the country to which they severally belong, the country of which they intend to become inhabitants, *died on voyage, part of the vessel occupied by each passenger during the voyage.
Cabin Passengers
1 Wilhelm Reimer 19 Protestant merchant Hanover New York
2 George Hennings 22 Protestant merchant Hanover New York
3* Edward Rottgen 21 Protestant merchant Prussian State Ohio
Between Decks passengers
4 Johann Diederich Drockmann 64 Katholik farmer Hanover State Ohio
5 Wilhelm Dirkemyer 25 Katholik farmer Hanover State Ohio
6 Maria Chatarine Dirkemyer 32 Katholik farmer Hanover State Ohio
7 Caroline Dirkemyer 2 Katholik farmer Hanover State Ohio
8 Franz Joseph Schmitz 21 Katholik farmer Prussian Cincinatti
9 Joseph Schlereth 25 Katholik brewer Bayern Cincinatti
10 Johan Gottlib Peiszel 24 Protestant tailor Wurtenberg New Jersey
11 Gottlib Frederich Wiedemeyer 23 Protestant tailor Wurtenberg Philadelphia
12 Friederich Meyer 35 Protestant farmer New Jersey New Jersey
13* Johan Heinrich Bonning 24 weafer Hessen New Jersey
14* Franz Joseph Plate 24 Katholik Kabinetmaker New York New York
15* Dorothea Bruggenkamp 25 Katholik Prussian New York
16 Sebastian Seidelwand 42 Katholik Karpenter Hessen Buffalo
17 Elisabeth Seidelwand 33 Katholik Hessen Buffalo
18 Heinrich Seidelwand 6 Katholik Hessen Buffalo
19 Georg Knoth 21 Protestant farmer Hessen Buffalo
20 Heinrich Richers 36 Protestant Hanover New York
21 Wilhelm Ferdinand Wiesse 45 Protestant musician Hanover New York
22 Caroline Wiesse 35 Protestant Hanover New York
23 Elise Wiesse 16 Protestant Hanover New York
24 Eduard Wiesse 14 Protestant Hanover New York
25 Mina Wiesse 7 Protestant Hanover New York
26 Agnes Wiesse 5 Protestant Hanover New York
27 Doris Wiesse 9m Protestant Hanover New York
signed: Jac Weissels
Transcriber's Notes:
* An asterisk indicates an error on the part of the original recorder, not the
transcriber, or is used to call your attention to additional information in the
transcriber's notes.
? Indicates a letter or number which could not be determined due to the condition
of the manifest or handwriting of the original recorder.
^ A ^ followed by a letter indicates that the letter was superscripted.
* Names were transcribed as seen regardless of spelling.
* Passengers where numbered by the transcribers for ease of referencing.
* None died during the voyage, therefore this coloumn was eliminated.
3: Rottgen is spelled with o Umlaut.
13: Bonning is spelled with o Umlaut.
15: Bruggenkamp is spelled with u Umlaut.
14 & 15: These passengers are part of a big group of people who emigrated from the
Munsterland (u Umlaut) area in Germany to the United States. They came from
Burgsteinfurt. More information can be found at Auswanderungen im 19. Jahrhundert,
Emigration in the 19th Century. Click on the link in the top left corner,
Auswanderungen im 19. Jahrhundert. This will take you to the index for Borghorst and
Burgsteinfurt. Permission to publish this information has been granted by Wilhelm
Alff, one of the authors of this website. Currently the website is in German only,
the translation is work in progress. If you have any information on passengers from
Burgsteinfurt, please contact Ines.
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 37, List 681.
Transcribed by Harry Green and Ines Mannhardt, members of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
2 December 2008
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