Immigrant Ships
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Brig Shamrock

Canary Islands to New York
10 August 1846

DISTRICT OF NEW YORK PORT OF NEW YORK.

I, R.F. Dodge do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear the following List or Manifest of Passengers, subscribed with my name, and now delivered by me to the Collector of the Customs for the District of New York contains, to the best of my knowledge and belief, a just and true account of all the Passengers received on board the Brig. Shamrock whereof I am Master, from Canary Islands.
Sworn to this 10th August 1846 So Help Me God. Before me (unreadable) Rueben F Dodge.
List or Manifest of All the Passengers taken on board the Brig. Shamrock whereof RF Dodge is Master; from Canary Island burthen 195 tons.
Columns represent: Name, Age, Sex, Occupation, The country, which they severally belong. The Country in which they intend to become inhabitants. Died on voyage.
 1  Mark N       Somyer         33    Male   Ship Master    US            US
 2  Michael      Socke          50    Male   Farmer         Germany       US
 3  Christrama   Socke          20    Female 
 4  Mamia        Socke          48    Female Farmer      
 5  Mama Ann     Socke          18    Female Farmer
 6  Eva          Socke          16    Female Farmer
 7  Joseph       Socke          10    Male   Farmer
 8  Peter        Marx           31    Male   Shoe Maker  
 9  Catherine    Marx           31    Female Shoe Maker
10* Nicholas     Marx            2    Male   Shoe Maker
11* Mathray      Pannask        36    Male   Laborer         Germany       US
12* ANN M        Pannask        26    Female Laborer         Germany       US
13* John Tholey  Pannask        30    Male                   Germany       US       
14  Christopher  Schwanhofer    45    Male   Farmer & Cooper Germany       US
15  Johanna      Schwanhofer    43    Female                 Germany       US
16  John         Schwanhofer    16    Male                   Germany       US
17  Catherine    Schwanhofer    20    Female                 Germany       US
18  Amy          Schwanhofer    14    female                 Germany       US
19  Elizabeth    Schwanhofer    14    Female                 Germany       US
20  Adam         Waldmeln       24    Male    Farmer         Germany       US
21  Ama Maria    Waldmeln       22    Female                 Germany       US
22* Gretuide     Waldmeln          9m Female                 Germany       US
23* Peter        Dectson        36    Male    Farmer         Germany       US
24* Margaretta   Dectson        47    Female                 Germany       US
25* Maria C      Dectson        11    Female                 Germany       US
26* Jacob        Dectson        10    Male                   Germany       US
27  John         Stark          35    Male                   Germany       US
28  Helen        Stark          34    Female                 Germany       US
29  John         Stark           7    Male                   Germany       US
30* Alpollonia   Stark           5    Male                   Germany       US
31  Nicholas     Stark           2    Male                   Germany       US
32  Carl         Richary        19    Male                   Germany       US
33  Nicholas     Clacy          26    Male                   Germany       US
34  Peter        Fender         24    Male                   Germany       US
35  John         Muller         26    Male                   Germany       US
36  John         Schmick        29    Male                   Germany       US
  

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.

10:      I don't think they would be shoe makers.  It is the transcribers believe that 
         this just kept the family listed together.
11 - 13: All one family 
22:      Age was recorded as 3/4
23 - 26: All one family. After much considersation from me and the Guild we came up with
         several choices for this family. They are Dectson, Dutson, Alston, Dutson, and
         Clutson.
30:      Alpollonia is most likely a misspelling of Apollonia which is
         female not male.

History of Milwaukee

Jacob Starck

Jacob Starck is well-known and successful representative of the building contracting business in Milwaukee, where he has thus remained active throughout a period covering more than six decades. He was born in a two-room cabin on his father's farm at Sixteenth Street and Fond du Lac Avenue, Milwaukee, October 26 1851, and has been a lifelong resident of this city. His parents, John and Helen (Mick) Starck, emigrated to the United States from Alsace-Lorraine in 1846. The vessel on which they took passage was wrecked and they were landed at Portugal, eventually reaching American shores after an extended ocean voyage of twenty-eight weeks and the payment of double fares. Making his way direct to Milwaukee, John Starck here began the manufacture of clay pipes and also cultivated a farm at what is now the intersection of Six-teeth street and Fond du Lac avenue, then a wilderness called Brown's Land. Both he and his wife died during the cholera epidemic of 1866. They were the parents of eight children, two of whom survive: Jacob, of this review; and Frank. The member of the family who passed away most recently was Apollonia, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine in February, 1841, and became a resident of Knoxville, Tennessee. She was the wife of John Hauerwas and the mother of twelve children and met a tragic end, being killed in an automobile accident on November 16, 1930. Frank Starck, the surviving brother of Jacob Starck, was born in the town of Greenfield, Milwaukee County, June 5, 1856, and attended school on Kilbourn road. He was orphaned when a lad of ten years and at the age of fourteen began farm work, being thus employed for five years at an annual wage of sixty dollars. Subsequently he was identified with the old Reliance Works as foreman of the flourmill department for a period of seventeen years, while for fourteen years

From History of Milwaukee Wisc. John F. Gregory Vol IV 1931
PJStarck of Wisconsin

January 2004 Additional Notes on ships Aliguash, Shamrock & Franklin
I found my Starck family arriving on the Brig Shamrock 10 August 1846 at New York. Now that Shamrock was found, one long-standing mystery remained, that being the identity of the first ship that wrecked and where in "Portugal" were they landed, according to that Starck history.

Meanwhile, my friend L. Galet, found the manifest of Brig Aliguash on ISTG and noticed the similarity of the passengers having survived a similar shipwreck, this one being at the Azores (also Portugal). We learned from more research that the passengers on Aliguash had survived the demise of the Ship Franklin, Antwerp to New Orleans, which put into St. Michael, Azores in a sinking condition due to leaking of its hull.

Our hunch became that the 35 passengers on Shamrock had also been aboard Ship Franklin with the 116 passengers of Aliguash.

Last week I learned from Mystic Seaport Museum that the passengers from Shamrock had in fact been aboard the Ship Franklin, this proven by a description in the 10 August 1846 edition of the New York Herald. So at long last, the mystery vessel is confirmed to be the Ship Franklin! Mystic Seaport also provided a September 1846 listing from New York confirming the Aliguash arriving with passengers of Franklin at Boston 22 September 1846. PJStarck

Compliments of the ISTG Research Team
National Archives and Records Administration, Film M237, Reel 63, List 703.
Transcribed by Bette Dew a member of the
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
8 January 2003
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