Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild

SS Fresia

I, Joachim Meyer, Master of the German S.S. Fresia 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 of the said German .S. Fresia at Hamburg and Havre from which port said S.S. Fresia 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. So help me God. (signed) J. Meyer. Sworn to this January 11, 1879 before me R?????

List or Manifest of all the passengers taken on board the German S.S. Fresia whereof Joachim Meyer is Master from Hamburg and Havre burthen * tons.

Columns represent: passenger number, name, age in years, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, and country in which they intend to become inhabitants*.

    
   Between Deck Passengers
 1 Marianna Czeluska      44  female    woman           Germany
 2 Josepha Czeluska       13  female    her children    Germany
 3 Martin Czeluska         9  male      her children    Germany
 4 Simon Czeluska          7  male      her children    Germany
 5 Abraham Land?man*      18  male      joiner          Germany
 6 Georg Tsermann         42  male      *               Germany
 7 Max Kaufmann           23  male      clerk           Russia
 8 Jacob Kolew            19  male      ?ilar*          Russia
 9 Rudolph Mo?am*         40  male      merchant        United States
10 Salomon Muller*        30  male      merchant        Hungary
11 Louis Cohn             19  male      clerk           Germany
12 ?uza? Gahler           30  male      baker           Germany
13 Heinrich Heutze        22  male      ?ooler*         Germany
14 Anna Dewerth           17  female    unmarried       Germany
15 Elisabeth Kreis        28  female    woman           Germany
16 Heinrich Kreis          4  male      her child       Germany
17 Berthold Pach?ilhe*    23  male      architect       Germany
18 Joseph Nowack          34  male      joiner          Germany
19 Otto Gunther*          20  male      clerk           Germany
20 Anton ?albot*          24  male      clerk           Austria
21 E?? Lahnk???*          ?4  female    woman           ?????
22 ? Lahnk???*             4            her child       ?????
23 ? Lahnk???*             ?            ?????           ?????
24 Adolph K?????ild*      35  male      ?????           ?????
25 ?o?aure K?????ild*     33  male      *               ?????
26 D??er J. ???iczh*      43  male      *               ?????
27 Freidr. Gunad?r*       16  male      cooper          ?????
28 ??? Moiede?eden*       26  male      clerk           ?????
29 ?. Schmidt*            26  male      ?????           ?????
30 H. ? Bunker*           26  male      ?????           ?????
31 Richd. Balsch*         21  male      farmer          ?????

              29 ??? Passengers

   Cabin Passengers
32 Emil Kuhn*             23  male      merchant        Germany
33 Moritz Drahl           35  male      merchant        United States
34 Maria Ehrsai?*         26  female    lady            United States
35 Marie Schaefer         48  female    lady            Germany
36 Bertha Rummelsberg     33  female    lady            United States
37 Constance Rummelsberg   9  female    children        United States
38 Louise Rummelsberg      5  female    children        United States
39 Juliane Rummelsberg     3  female    children        United States
40 Ferdinand Peter        27  male      merchant        Bohemia
41 ?u?a Scharunka*        28  male      merchant        United States
42 Geo Blankenberg        34  male      merchant        United States
43 Edw Laud?eather*       24  male      merchant        Canada
44 H. ?allanbach*         34  male      merchant        United States
45 Helena ?allenbach*     19  female    lady            Sch????
46 F Altz                 27  male      merchant        Sch????
47 F. C. Smith            42  male      merchant        United States
  
               16 Cabin Passengers
   
Transcriber's Notes:     
No deaths recorded.  
? indicates letter(s) which could not be read.
* Burthen left blank.
* The destination for all passengers was the United States.  That column
  has been omitted here.
*  5 - Surname looks like Landaman or Landoman
*  6 - Occupation not listed
*  8 - Occupation might be milar
*  9 - Surname looks look Mornam or Momam
* 10 - Umlaut over "u" in Muller
* 13 - First letter of occupation looks like "M" or "W"
* 17 - Surname looks like Pachnilhe
* 19 - Umlaut over "u" in Gunther
* 21 - Surname might be Talbot
* 21 thru 23 - These lines were crossed out on the manifest and much of the
  information is unreadable as indicated by "?".  There does not appear to
  have been a given name written on lines 22 and 23, but a ditto mark 
  indicates the surname was the same as line 21.
* 24 - On the original manifest, the writer ignored the original lines 21
  through 23 which were crossed out and began again here at 21.  For ease
  in referencing footnotes, I have continued numbering at 24.
* 24 thru 31 - Writing is very faint and much of it is unreadable as 
  indicated by "?".
* 32 - On the original manifest, cabin passengers are numbered 1 through 16.  
  For ease in referencing footnotes, I have continued numbering with 32.
* 34 - Surname looks like Ehrsain
* 41 - Missing letters in given name resemble "R" and "g".
* 43 - Surname looks like Laudweather or Laudreather
* 44 and 45 - Surname might be Kallenbach

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 416.

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