Immigrant Ships
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Bark Francisca

The Bremen bark "Francisca", captained by A. Hagedorn, carried 182* passengers from Bremerhaven, leaving on 21 April 1852, to the port of Galveston, TX arriving on 15 June 1852.

  
  Passengers:
  
   1  Krebs, Wenzel & family         (8)   Bohemia (Czechoslovakia)
   2  Hassen, Ludwig & family        (8)   Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland)
   3  Bunzel, Johanna                      Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland)
   4  Bocking, Mathilde                    Kassel, Kassel Co.
   5  Quensell, Wilhelm                    Uslar, Hoxter Co., Westfalen Dist.
   6  Eimar, Ernst & family          (6)   Nassau-Dillenburg, Koblenz Co., Pfalz Dist.
   7  Stiernberg, Wilhelm & wife           Ellentrup
   8  Meier, Florenz & wife                Ellentrup
   9  Muller, August                       Berlin
  10  Frerichs, Frerich & family     (8)   Aurich-Oldendorf, Aurich Co., Nordsachsen
  11  Alden, Johann & wife                 Haltrop
  12  Alberts, Lucken                      Oldendorf or Aurich Co.
  13  Klassen, Balze                       Oldendorf or Aurich Co.
  14  Marth, Conrad & wife                 Kurhessen - Hessen
  15  Giessler, Wilhelm & wife             Nassau, Pfalz Dist.
  16  Gobel, Leonhard & family       (6)   Nassau, Pfalz Dist.
  17  Diehl, Auguste                       Nassau, Pfalz Dist.
  18  Thomas, Ferdinand                    Nassau, Pfalz Dist.
  19  Heun, Christian & family       (5)   Nassau, Pfalz Dist.
  20  Jung, Daniel & Oswald                Nassau, Pfalz Dist.
  21  Ruckes, Albert                       Homburg, Wertheim Co. or Wurzburg Co. orHomburg Co
  22  Kaas, Chr. W.                  (5)   Marienberg, same Co., Karl Marx Stadt Dist., 
                                           or Rosenheim Co., Bayern Dist.
  23  Simon, Martin                  (8)   Marienberg, same Co., Karl Marx Stadt Dist., 
                                           or Rosenheim Co., Bayern Dist.
  24  Luckenback, August                   Marienberg, same Co., Karl Marx Stadt Dist., 
                                           or Rosenheim Co., Bayern Dist.      
  25  Haas, Ferdinand & family             Nassau, Koblenz Co., Pfalz Dist.
  26  Dierks, Junke                  (4)   Aurich-Oldendorf, Aurich Co., Nordsachsen Dist.
  27  Behrens, Rolpf                 (3)   Aurich-Oldendorf, Aurich Co., Nordsachsen Dist.
  28  Janssen, Gerd                        Aurich-Oldendorf, Aurich Co., Nordsachsen Dist.
  29  Kuntze, Mathias                      Chemnitz, now Karl Marx Stadt
  30  Platzer, Wilhelm               (4)   Sachsen-Altenburg, Altenburg Co.
  31  Muller, Michael                (7)   Sachsen-Altenburg, Altenburg Co.
  32  Meuth, Heinrich                      Sachsen-Altenburg, Altenburg Co.
  33  Klaas, Wilhelm                       Sachsen-Altenburg, Altenburg Co.
  34  Merz, Nicolaus                 (4)   Oberelbert-Nassau, Koblenz Co., Pfalz Dist.
  35  Lott, Anton                    (3)   Oberelbert-Nassau, Koblenz Co., Pfalz Dist.
  36  Schuch, Heinrich               (7)   Ober-Costenz, Nassau, Pfalz Dist.
  37  Lorenz, Peter                  (8)   Ober-Costenz, Nassau, Pfalz Dist.
  38  Gotthard, Theodor                    Niedermorendorf
  39  Homann, Heinrich                     Hilgershausen, Eschwegen Co., or Kassel Co.
  40  Almerot, Conrad                      Hilgershausen, Eschwegen Co., or Kassel Co.
  41  Donnermath, Dorothea                 Welsch-Neudorf, Koblenz Co.
  42  Leitzmann, Kunigunde                 Eltersdorf, Erlangen Co., Bayern Dist.
  43  Schutte, Anton                       Dohsen in Braunschweig Dist.
  44  Bohnung, August & wife               Dohsen in Braunschweig Dist.
  45  Brumer, Wilhelm & Wilhelmine         Dohsen in Braunschweig Dist.
  46  Brumer, Heinrich              (4)    Dohsen in Braunschweig Dist.
  47  Herboth, Wilhelm & wife              Dohsen in Braunschweig Dist.
  48  Muhlenweg, Christian & wife          Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  49  Puls, Wilhelm                 (2)    Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  50  Mulhenweg, Wilhelm            (2)    Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  51  Stratman, Johann              (7)    Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  52  Hocke, Heinrich & Hanne              Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  53  Nagel, Friedrich                     Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  54  Lange, Adolph                        Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  55  Kruse, Heinrich                      Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  56  Vennbus, Gottlieb                    Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  57  Heybrink, Wilhelm                    Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  58  Treckoter, Heinrich                  Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  59  Butron, Johann                       Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  60  Hulzmann, Carl                       Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  61  Latman, Wilhelm                      Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  62  Fiemeister, Heinrich                 Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  63  Bagemeister, August                  Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  64  Drecksage, Conrad                    Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  65  Linbruger, Heinrich                  Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  66  Schnittger, Theodor                  Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  67  Blum, Caroline                       Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  68  Rotermund, Carl               (2)    Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  69  Stickhorst, Heinrich                 Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  70  Puls, Heinrich                (5)    Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  71  Kruse, Wilhelm                       Heepen, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  72  Schulze, C.                          Lippe, Detmold (prob. Coblenz Co.)
  73  Kaiser, Phillip                      Minden, Minden Co., Westfalen Dist.
  74  Kaiser, Elise                        Kurhessen
  75  Simon, Wilhelm                       Hoheneichend, Eschwege Co.,
  76  Thomas, Heinrich                     Hoheneichend, Eschwege Co.,
  77  Frank, Carl (4)                      Berlin
  78  Posteher, Heinrich                   Bielefeld, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  79  Wostmann, Friedrich                  Bielefeld, Bielefeld Co., Westfalen Dist.
  
  5 children died during this journey
  4 babies were born during this journey
   
Transcribers Notes:
# 4 Bocking is written with o (umlaut).
# 5 Hoxter is written with o (umlaut).
#12 Lucken's name is written with u (umlaut). There is a note that
    there are 8 Oldendorf communities in Germany.
#16 Gobel is written with o (umlaut).
#25 There is no reference to the size of Ferdinand's family group.
#31 Muller is written with u (umlaut).
#38 The first o in Niedermorendorf is written o (umlaut).
#44 Bohnung is written with o (umlaut).
#45 Brumer is written with u (umlaut).
#46 Brumer is written with u (umlaut).
#48 Muhlenweg is written with u (umlaut).
#52 Hocke is written with o (umlaut).
#78 This passenger is the 17 year old boy who was to become this
    transcribers great great grandfather.

Correspondence 04/20/01 passenger #21 Ruckes
I believe my great-grandfather was passenger #21 Albert Ruckes from Humberg
not Homburg.  The name Ruckes however has a umlaut over the u.  I believe he
is also the one mislabeled as #62 in your example of multiple locations that
the transcriber in Hamburg gave (see below).
Albert Rückes was born in the village of Homberg, Naussau now prov.of
Westerwald in 1830.  Homberg is only 1.5 km from Rennerod and about
100km.north/west of Frankfurt between Limberg(S) and Siegen(N), it is so
small ( about 50 houses) it is not shown on most maps of Germany.  Until now
I have not been able to find what ship Albert and other members of the
Rückes family immigrated or exactly what year they came.  It was believed
the family came in 1855 to New Orleans, with the eldest son Etuard(Edward)
coming first in 1845 or 1846.  Could this possible be another Albert Ruckes?
I think he is my Albert.  This past March, I went to Germany to Homberg,
Rennerod and other towns in Westerwald to look for church records.  I was
very successful, with the help of a distant Rückes cousin, who acted as my
personal interpreter and guide.  I also found my Rückes cousins in Siegen,
where we had a wonderful reunion with 10 cousins, for the first time in 145
years.  We share the same G-G-Grandfather, Philipp Wilhelm Rückes the father
of Albert.  Now we all have a much larger family, and we keep in touch by
e-mail often. I use the translator found at
http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dynhttp to send my messages in
German and to translate their messages into English.  It is not perfect but
we can understand each other.
If you ever need assistance with Genealogical research, my cousin Peter
Jung, who lives in the beautiful city of Bad Ems near Koblenz is the School
Principle there and his hobby is genealogy,  Peter has been at it for more
than 15 years, with over 12000 family names in his family tree, and he has
copies of many of the church records in the Westerwald area. Peter has his
own web site in German, http://members.aol.com/Peupi/ , however he does
read, write and speak English quite well.  I recommend him to anyone who is
looking for information in this area of Germany.  Peter has helped me to my
12th X Great-grandfather in the year 1500.
When I get further along with some missing links I will publish my tree and
family history in the near future.  If you have access to any other ship
list, particularly in the years, 1845, for Etuard(Edward) Rückes and 1855
for Philipp Wilhelm Rückes, Katharine his wife and 6 more children, please
let me know.  Rückes is sometimes spelled Rueckes or Rickes and to Ricks.
Contact Frank Ricks

"""The transcriber in Hamburg gives multiple locations in some instances.
This is likely her own attempt to place locations geographically for her
readers, and likely shows her uncertainty to which location a specific town
belongs. An example would be line #62 Homburg. I read this line as Homburg
in Wertheim Co. OR Homburg in Wurzburg Co. OR Homburg in Homburg Co. """

#78 (August) Heinrich Posteher is my great, great grandffather. He was 17 when he left Prussia for the USA. He ultimately settled in Minnesota. Within a few years of arriving, he changed the way he spelled his name to Henry Postier. Passengers #51 Johann Stratman (7), #53 Friedrich Nagel and #79 Friedrich Wostmann are believed to be Heinrich's relatives.

The transcription I have states the ship carried 182 passengers. There are 82 named individuals on this list (lines #20, 45 and 52 cite two names each line) and an additional 106 persons indicated by family group reference - (spouses and children). I find a total of 188 passengers by this counting. I did not count the children who died or who were born, and counted line #25 as a couple. Having a transcription, and not a copy of the original document, I cannot account for this difference.

Some groups are not listed as "& family" or "& wife". It is not clear if these are or are not family groups. I would think that if they were unrelated persons they would each be listed by name, as other single individuals are, so I believe it is a fairly good guess that they are spouses and children.

Family group numbers indicated in parens include the named individual in the count - example: line #35. LOTT, Anton (3) = Anton and 2 others.

The transcriber in Hamburg gives multiple locations in some instances. This is likely her own attempt to place locations geographically for her readers, and likely shows her uncertainty to which location a specific town belongs. An example would be line #62 Homburg. I read this line as Homburg in Wertheim Co. OR Homburg in Wurzburg Co. OR Homburg in Homburg Co.

The original material was transcribed by Eva Lembcke of Hamburg from the list she found in the "Allegemeine Auswanderer Zeitung" published in August 1852.