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From the governmental district of Merseburg. In completing this section on the emigration list of 1839 we only give 18 firmly established names out of 103. From Schkölen, Weissenfels district: wagon master Johann Gottfried Harnisch with wife Wilhelmine, neé Stoll and three-year-old daughter Marie; widower and journeyman potter Karl Friedrich Krieg with one son Johann Gottfried (3); master cooper Johann Gottlieb Krug with wife Therese, neé Schirmer and two children: Marie Therese (3), Karl Benjamin (1 ½). Halle: taxes overseer Wehe with wife and seven small children. III. Emigrating in 1839 from the province of Brandenburg in or near Berlin: journeyman tailor Jakob Kupferschmidt with wife and eight children; master baker Friedrich Pohle with wife and six children (prehaps Prote?); journeyman tailor Johann Scheidler with wife; mason Friedrich Scheidler and wife and three children; bookbinder Christoph Will with wife and four children; locksmith Friedrich Kompakt with wife and two children; shoemaker Tobias Buse with wife and five children; widow Anna Hesse; shoemaker Johann Friedrich Holle with wife and six children; widow Johanna Karl; shoemaker Lange with wife and three children; Altenstein along with wife and one child; workman Wolf with wife and three children; former chancellery assistant Unverdorben along with wife; widow Anna Maria Hering; journeyman shoemaker Johann August Exner; journeyman baker Gottfried Streiber; sugar refiner Tölge and wife; coachman Johann Richter with wife and one child; workman Johann Christian Deterling; shoemaker Friedrich Korn with wife and six children; mason Johann Nic. Scheider and wife; baker Prote (perhaps identified above as Pohle); From Crossen district, in or near Plau: gardener Johann Gottlieb Beisser [Beißer] with wife and two children: Friedrich August (14), Johanna Dorothea (11); the two elder sons, Christoph Valentin (21) and Johann Gottlieb (17), remained behind. IV. Emigrating from the province of Silesia in 1839, from the city of Breslau: city toll collector Karl Meyer (50) with wife Dorothea (41) and daughter Amalie (11); artistic gardener Ernst Faude (35); master shoemaker Josef Hantschke (45) with wife Susanna, neé Mroske (40), and three children: Mathilde (14), Maria (6), Robert (4); journeyman tailor Karl Zedler (34) - his wife temporarily stayed behind; master tailor Gottlob Harttert (40) with wife Christiane, neé Werner (38) and three children: Gottlob (16), Karl Samuel (6), Wilhelm (5); house servant Friedrich Gürcke (51) with wife Johanna, neé Zänscher (41) and two children: Pauline (14), Julius (7); millwright Gottlieb Stein (56) with wife Rosina, neé Sommer (43) and four children: Luise (23), Eduard (21), Moritz (16), Johanna (8); shoemaker Ignaz Pelzel (48) with wife Anna Rosina, neé Kuhnert (48) and two children: Amalie (13), Wilhelm (7). From the district of Breslau Cammelwitz: blacksmith Christian Rother (43) with wife Anna Rosina, neé Hoffmann (44); blacksmith Johann Gottlieb Rother (32) with wife Anna Rosina, neé Wolf (22) and daughter Christiane (1 year 4 months); cabinetmaker Johann Ernst Rother (20 ½), wheelwright Julius Gustav Rother (18 ½), perhaps brother of the above; |
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Susan Kriegbaum-Hanks