Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild
Ship Ohio
Partial List
Bremen, Germany Baltimore, MD
12 June 1875
I, G. Meyer master of the Ship Ohio of Bremen do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear
that the annexed list, subscribed with my name, contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief,
a just and true account or report of all the passengers who have been taken on board the said vessel
at Bremen or any other foreign port, or at sea, and brought in the said vessel into any district of
the United States since her departure from the said port of Bremen Germany sworn to this 12 day of
June 1875 Gustave Meyer Before me David W E?y?ih.
Columns represent: names, age, last legal residence, country claiming allegiance, occupation and sex.
167* Josef Thase?owina 9 Austria Austria None M
168* Wenzl Thase?owina 8 Austria Austria None M
169* Maria Thase?owina 6 Austria Austria None F
170 Mathias Soucek 45 Austria Austria Laborer M
171 Maria Soucek 39 Austria Austria None F
172 Francisca Soucek 12 Austria Austria None F
173 Anna Soucek 9 Austria Austria None F
174 Johann Soucek 7 Austria Austria None M
175 Antonia Soucek 5 Austria Austria None F
176 Carl Soucek 3 Austria Austria None M
177 Maria Soucek 2 Austria Austria None F
178* Mathias Soucek 2/12 Austria Austria None M
179 Anna Wapenik 52 Austria Austria None F
180* Franz Mz?k 36 Austria Austria Laborer M
181* Franz Mz?k 12 Austria Austria None M
182 Carl Tomasehek 62 Austria Austria Laborer M
183 Anna Tomasehek 60 Austria Austria None F
184* Wenzl Ma?ehek ?5 Austria Austria Laborer M
185* Barbara Ma?ehek 31 Austria Austria None F
186 Johann Sebeda 42 Austria Austria None M
187 Anna Sebeda 39 Austria Austria None F
Transcriber's notes:
All passengers are listed as being in steerage and this column is eliminated.
The use of ? indicates a word or letters that could not be read due to the condition
of the document or penmanship of the original drafter of the document.
167* ? in surname may be "k" (Thasekowina) or "h" (Thasehowina).
168* ? in surname may be "k" (Thasekowina) or "h" (Thasehowina).
169* ? in surname may be "k" (Thasekowina) or "h" (Thasehowina).
178* 2/12 indicates an infant of 2 months age.
180* ? in surname may be "i" (Mzik) or "c" (Mzck).
181* ? in surname may be "i" (Mzik) or "c" (Mzck).
184* ? in surname may be "s" (Masehek) or "c" (Macehek).
Contributor's Notes:
Mathias Soucek and his family
The father, Mathias was born in Ovcary, Bohemia.
His (second) wife, Marie Linek Soucek, was born in Hlizov,
Bohemia. Mathias' children by his first wife were
Frantiska, Anna and Johann, all born in Ovcary. His second
wife, Marie, gave him Antonia, Carl (who became Charles),
Maria, and Mathias (who became Mike), all born near Koln,
about 10 miles east of Prague.
Before they left for the sea port, they had a big "garage"
sale. The women made zwieback, bread which was dipped in
egg and milk, then baked again and they packed a whole trunk
of it to have on the journey. The grandmother cried and ran
after the wagon as it went down the road, wailing that she
would never see them again. But Mathias, who had been in
Emperor Franz Joseph's Army and had even been chosen to ride
near him in parades because he (Mathias) looked so good on
his white horse, did not want his boys to grow up to be
cannon fodder. He said in the old country, your heart
belonged to the Pope and your body to the Emperor. He had
to leave.
It was ironic then, that as their ship sailed up the
Chesapeake towards Baltimore, they passed Annapolis. The
boys, Johann and Carl, were on deck with their father. They
asked Captain Meyer, "What are those nice buildings there,
sir?" And he said, "That is the U.S. Naval Academy. If you
are good boys and study hard, you could go to school there
one day."" And so that became their dream. They were good
boys and they did study hard, but on the prairies of
Nebraska and Kansas, there were few schools and the boys had
to help on the farm. They missed their chance at taking the
entrance exam by two years. Still, the dream lived. Johann
(who became John) sent two of his sons, Apollo and Zeus,
(Mathias was a Greek scholar and loved the myths) and Carl
(Charles) sent two of his, Victor and Archie, who both
became Captains.
Apollo and Zeus set high altitude records for the Navy in
the late 1920s and early 1930s. Apollo's picture hangs on
the wall of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in D.C.
They both became Admirals. Apollo was flight deck officer
on the Hornet at Pearl Harbor and served in several other
battles of WWII. Part of the Naval Air Station, Oceana, at
Virginia Beach was dedicated as "Apollo Soucek Field" on
June 4, 1957, the 27th anniversary of Apollo's
record-setting flight in a Wright-Apache land plane which
climbed to 43,166 feet. This mark stood for over two
years. When he died, he was serving as Chief of the Bureau
of Aeronautics in D.C.
All the other children listed on the manifest also became
good, productive citizens of their adopted country, along
with their siblings who were born in the U.S.
After the family debarked from the S.S. Ohio, they
apparently took one of the immigrant trains to somewhere in
Nebraska, bought a wagon and team and set off across the
prairies. When they passed a country school house, Mathias,
thinking this was a church, jumped down, ran to the steps,
and gave thanks to the Almighty for delivering them to the
promised land. They lived in Nebraska for a time, then went
into Kansas. When the Cherokee Strip opened in 1893, most
of the adults ran for and won 160 acre parcels which they
"proved up" on. The child, Maria, listed as two years old,
was at that time classified as an adult. She claimed a
farm; but her father made her give it to her younger
brother, Mike, for the sum of $1000. (After all, she was
just a girl.)
One of Mathias' grand-daughters was my Aunt Mary. She kept
alive everything you read above, repeating them in an
entertaining way whenever the family gathered. At her 90th
birthday party, she entertained her guests by donning her
grandmother's babushka, carried the Bohemian Bible, and told
us all again.
National Archives and Records Administration
Contributed by
Allene Niehaus
for the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
13 September 2000
Transcribed by
Russ Hauser
a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
13 September 2000
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