The Old Lutheran Emigration at the Middle of the 19th Century, pages 301 - 304
Table VII.
Proportion of Old Lutheran Emigrants to Total Number of Old Lutherans
| Year | Total Number of Old Lutherans | Number of
Emigrants | Percentage
|
| 1838 | In the Mark:
Potsdam District - 181
Frankfurt District - 1035
| 386 | 37.3%
|
In Pomerania:
Stettin District - 848
Cöslin - 1017 | |
|
In Saxony:
Magdeburg District - 100
Merseberg District - 124
Erfurt District - 217
Earldom of Wernigerode - 6 | |
|
In Posen:
Posen District - 803
Bromberg District - 89 | 239 |
|
In Silesia:
Breslau District - 2426
Liegnitz District - 1343
Oppeln District - 215 | 65 |
|
| 8404 | 690 | 8.2%
|
| 1845 | 18644 | 5107
(up to and including 1845) | 27.3%
|
| 1860 | 50517 | 7134
(up to and including 1854 | 14.1%
|
| In reality the last percentage will be somewhat higher since the total number of old Lutherans for the year 1854, which is unknown to us, is perhaps lower than the 1860 total. In assuming that the 27.3% was derived from a proper assessment of the number of old Lutherans in 1854, this means that the ranks of old Lutherans, depleted by the waves of emigration, must have been replenished. In individual emigrating regions such as Frankfurt or in the year 1838, for example, the annual calculation yields a higher percentage.
It is regrettable that we are not in a position to render a sufficient ratio in general or in individual cases but we wanted to insert what was known into our table (107, 73).
Translator's note: The numbers in parentheses refer to the sources listed in the blbiography at the end of Volume I:
107: Under the section on State Archives material, "Acta des Kgl. Geheimen Kabinetts betr. Sekten und Konventikelwesen 1836 - 39".
73: Under the section on Literature and Sources, "Unsere Heimatkirche", 2. Aufl. by Gottfried Nagel, Breslau 1924.
|
Table VIII.
Proportion of Old Lutheran Emigration to Overall German Emigration
For the main years of Lutheran emigration we unfortunately have insufficient data. Concerning so-called indirect travel we have no data until the year 1844 and this filing status was most often chosen by the Lutheran emigrants. Direct emigration, for the most part, did not involve the use of German ships. Indeed whenever one calculates the Lutheran portion of the emigration after the fact, one comes up with a justifiably larger percentage. The high percentage for Hamburg, whence the first large emigrations occurred, is understandable based on the fact that only direct travel could commence from that point. It is evident that in adding general emigration and subtracting old Lutheran emigration, the percentage is diminished. For the first period until 1843 with the grand total remaining the same the old Lutheran emigration increasing the proportion reverses (85, 60, 9).
| Year | Direct Travel
from Hamburg
and Bremen | Overall German
Emigration | Old Lutheran
Emigration | Percentage
|
| 1838 | From Hamburg: 955
From Bremen: 8953
Total: 9908 | Average Estimate
for 1830 - 43:
22,000 | 690 | a)Direct Transport
from Hamburg: 72%b)Direct Transport
from Hamburg
& Bremen: 7% c)Overall German
Emigration: 3%
|
| 1839 | From Hamburg: 1549
From Bremen: 12,421Total: 13,990 | 22,000 | 1239 | a)Hamburg: 80% b)Hamburg & Bremen: 9% c)Overall: 5%
|
| 1843 | From Hamburg: 1756
From Bremen: 9844 Total: 12,609 | 22,000 | 1600 | a)From Hamburg: 90% b)From Hamburg
& Bremen: 13% c)Overall: 5%
|
| 1846 | From Hamburg & Bremen,
direct & indirect
travel: 37,239 | 107,000 | 789 | From Bremen & Hamburg: 2% Overall: 0.7%
|
| 1854 | 127,694 | 252,000 | 510 | From Bremen
& Hamburg: 2%From Overall
Emigration: 0.2%
|
Table IX
Number of Emigrants Identified by Name
| Year | Identified by Name | Identified only
as a Number | Total
|
| 1835 | 20 | 10 | 30
|
| 1836 | 6 | - | 6
|
| 1837 | 74 | - | 74
|
| 1838 | 690 | - | 690
|
| 1839 | 1156 | 83 | 1239
|
| 1840 | 62 | - | 62
|
| 1841 | 235 | 160 | 395
|
| 1842 | 45 | - | 45
|
| 1843 | 1416 | 184 | 1600
|
| 1844 | 411 | 10 | 421
|
| 1845 | 550 | 4 | 554
|
| 1846 | 571 | 218 | 789
|
| 1847 | 130 | 251 | 381
|
| 1848 | 89 | - | 89
|
| 1849 | 39 | - | 39
|
| 1850 | 37 | - | 37
|
| 1851 | 37 | - | 37
|
| 1852 | 21 | 51 | 72
|
| 1853 | 64 | - | 64
|
| 1854 | 510 | - | 510
|
|
| Total | 6163 | 971 | 7134
|
Percentage Identified by Name: 86.3%
References in the Source and Bibliographic Index of Volume I
Numbers in parentheses refer to the Source and Bibliographic Index in Volume I. Multiple citations are separated by periods with page numbers for each cited work indicated after the comma.
Printing Errors in Volume I.
Page 28, line 7: weg.
Page 57, line 13: Militärpflichtigen.
Page 102, line 19: verkaufte.
Page 114, line 14: 000.
Page 117, line 6: v. unten begangen
Page 210, line 2: v. unten Vorgehen.
Page 217, line 18: Erfassung.
Page 304, line 11: Kreise.
Table X.
Parochial Report for the Buffalo Synod, 1851 and 1852 (19).
Congregation Name
Number of Souls
Name of Pastor | Births | Baptisms | Marriages | Deaths | Excommunications | Additions | Communicants | School Children | School Teachers |
Confirmations
|
| 51 | 52 | 51 | 52 | 51 | 52 | 51 | 52 | 51 | 52
| 51 | 52 | 51 | 52 | 51 | 52 | 51 | 52 | 51 | 52
|
Buffalo
1400
Pastor Grabau | 91 | 83 | 93 | 82 | 14 | 25 | 32 | 90 | 34 | 17
| 45 | 117 | 1933 | 2132 | 233 | 216 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 20
|
New Bergholz
1300
Pastor von Rohr | 53 | 67 | 51 | 65 | 20 | 20 | 17 | 40 | 14 | 2
| 26 | 7 | 2362 | 2818 | 19 | 200 | 3 | 3 | - | 22
|
Martinville
597
Pastor Wier | 38 | 32 | 38 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 18 | 1 | 3
| 15 | 70 | 992 | 1411 | 90 | 92 | 1 | 1 | - | 12
|
Wallmore
220
Pastor von Rohr | 8 | 11 | 8 | 10 | - | 1 | 1 | 7 | - | -
| 1 | 12 | 439 | 532 | 31 | 46 | 1 | 1 | - | 1
|
Eden
89
Pastor Lange | 7 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | -
| - | - | 109 | 121 | 30 | 19 | - | - | 25 | 2
|
Humberston
288 | 19 | 21 | 19 | 21 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 1
| - | 3 | - | 229 | 30 | 30 | 1 | 1 | - | 7
|
Detroit
approx. 120
Pastor Winkler | 6 | 12 | 6 | 12 | - | - | 1 | 9 | - | -
| - | - | 133 | 155 | 25 | 40 | - | - | 4 | -
|
Macomb County
120
Pastor Winkler | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 1 | - | - | -
| - | - | 52 | 48 | 7 | 15 | - | - | - | 1
|
Milwaukee
(?)
Pastor Müller | 6 | - | 6 | - | 2 | - | 3 | - | 3 | -
| 10 | - | 170 | - | - | - | - | - | 6 | -
|
Freystadt
378
Pastor Müller | 21 | 15 | 21 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 4 | - | 3
| 15 | 19 | 934 | 1077 | 30 | 63 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 7
|
Kirchhain
456
Pastor Kindermann | 22 | 27 | 22 | 27 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 9 | 3 | -
| 16 | 29 | 836 | 896 | 64 | 72 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 10
|
Cedarburg
78
Pastor Kindermann | 3 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 1 | - | 3 | 3 | - | -
| 3 | 5 | 95 | 94 | 29 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -
|
Watertown
84
Pastor Kindermann | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | - | 2 | - | - | - | -
| 9 | 7 | 149 | 130 | 15 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4
|
Newark
(?)
Pastor Mashop | - | 26 | - | 26 | - | 15 | - | 8 | - | -
| - | 27 | - | 256 | - | 57 | - | - | - | 3
|
|
|
| Total: 5130 | 278 | 310 | 278 | 305 | 53 | 76 | 103 | 191 | 55 | 26
| 140 | 296 | 8184 | 9899 | 776 | 891 | 13 | 13 | 76 | 89
|
The statistics give rise to the following conclusions:
- From the soul count, one can judge the amount of splintering
- The number of excommunications might lead to inference concerning the staunch use of church discipline
- The number of people receiving communion is good.
- In Milwaukee and Newark the data is unclear.
This is the end of the chapter on emigration from Die Altlutherische Auswanderung um die Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts by Wilhelm Iwan
Project completed September 9, 2006
Susan Kriegbaum-Hanks
