Schochenmeier in prison?!

Working on a new map of our ancestors, I've stumbled upon a very interesting person:

Ernest F. Schochenmeier 

He can be found in the U.S. Census from 1940 where you may read that he was a white man of 85 years old (born in 1855 in Germany!) and being at the moment of Census in PRISON !!!

The address is Ward 13, Utica, Utica City, Oneida, New York, United States

 
Perhaps, it looked like that:

I have no idea who he could be...

 It seems to be that he belongs to the generation of Michael (1859) and Jacob (1861).

When did he come to the New World? Did he have any children?

No answers, only questions... I have never met any Ernest on FamilySearch or Ancestry.

Very strange case...

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Ship which Michael Schochenmaier came on

As we know Michael Schochenmaier arrived in Baltimore (Maryland) on May 4, 1887, from Bremen (Germany). Among the copies of the passangers' list, I found the main page contaning the name of the ship:

The ship was called "SS America" and as well as "Aller" of Jacob Schochenmaier, it belonged to North German Lloyd Company. 

The main page of the passanger list is looking like follows:

Several pages after that, you can see the names of Michael Schochenmaier (28 y., 1859-1937), his wife Christine Schochenmaier (30 y., née Winkler, 1858-1926), Cathrine (3 y., 1884-1966, married to Johann Klien) and Wilchelmine (10 months, 1886-1963, married later to Christian Odenbach):  

Another scan with wider frames:

Well, let's go to the ship: 

The AMERICA 1863-1894The AMERICA was on the Bremen to New York Route from 1863 to 1894. The German Lloyds new steamship AMERICA sailed from Southampton on the 27th of May, 1863 arrived June 7, 1863. AMERICA / ORAZIO 1862 The AMERICA was a 2752 gross ton ship, length 318ft x beam 40ft, clipper bows, one funnel, three masts (rigged for sails), iron hull, single screw and a speed of 11 knots. Accommodation for 76-1st, 107-2nd and 480-steerage class passengers. Built by Caird & Co, Greenock, she was launched for North German Lloyd, Bremen in Nov.1862. Her maiden voyage started on 25th May 1863 when she left Bremen for Southampton and New York. In 1871 she was fitted with new engines and on 27th Jan.1894 commenced her last round voyage from Bremen to New York and Baltimore. Sold to Italy in 1894, she was renamed ORAZIO and was scrapped the following year. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.2,p.545]

S. S. America 1863 (year of construction) North German Lloyd, image from Peabody Museum of Salem In the photo: 1873: Arrived Steam-ship America (Ger.), Bussins, Bremen March 13, Southampton 16th with mdse and 304 passengers to Oelirich & co, March 29, 1873 (NYT) Or, from here: AMERICA (1862) ORAZIO [1894] Print of the AMERICA. Source: Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), p. 13. To request a larger copy of this scan, click on the picture. The steamship AMERICA was built for Norddeutscher Lloyd by Caird & Co, Greenock (yard #96), and was launched in November 1862. 2,752 tons; 318 x 40 feet (length x breadth); clipper bow, 1 funnel, 3 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, inverted engines, service speed 11 knots; accommodation for 76 passengers in 1st class, 107 in 2nd class, and 480 in steerage; crew of 84 to 102. 25 May 1863, maiden voyage, Bremen-Southampton-New York, with 216 passengers and 300 tons of freight. 1864, briefly under the Russian flag during the Prussian war with Denmark. 1872, engines compounded by Day, Summers & Co, Southampton. 1882, engines rebuilt in Bremerhaven. 27 January 1894, last voyage, Bremen-New York-Baltimore. 29 June 1894, sold to F. Fratelli & Co, La Spezia, and renamed ORAZIO; re-sold to S. Repetto, Genoa. 9 September 1894, sold to La Spezia for scrapping. 1895, scrapped at La Spezia. Sources: Edwin Drechsel, Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen, 1857-1970; History, Fleet, Ship Mails, vol. 1 (Vancouver: Cordillera Pub. Co., c1994), p. 18, no. 12; Arnold Kludas, Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutschen Lloyd, Bd. 1: 1857 bis 1919 (Herford: Koehler, c1991), pp. 12-13 (picture); Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 2 (1978), p. 545. Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 6, reproduces what purports to be a photograph of the AMERICA, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.

At that time the Baltimore port can be seen on these photos:

Ship which Jacob Schochenmaier came on

As we know Jacob Schochenmaier arrived in New York on May 3, 1886, from Bremen (Germany). Among the copies of the passangers' list, I found the main page contaning the name of the ship:

The ship ALLER was belonging to the North German Lloyd Company.

In German: Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL). 

It was a German shipping company. It was founded by Hermann Henrich Meier and Eduard Crüsemann in Bremen on February 20, 1857. It developed into one of the most important German shipping companies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and was instrumental in the economic development of Bremen and Bremerhaven. 

Headquarters of North German Lloyd in Bremerhaven in 1870

The emblem of the firm is:

At that time, this Company was one of the biggest companies which brought immigrants to the New World from all over the world: You could see their ads in the American towns and villages as posters:  or in the German newspapers:  Well, what about the ship:

Name : Aller Description : Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship built 1886 at Glasgow by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd. Credit : Louis Koch Source : Old photograph

Aller, Norddeutscher Lloyd steamship
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The Aller was the first of 3 sisters built for the North German Lloyd by Fairfield Shipbuilding & Eng. Co. Ltd. In 1886. The other sisters were theSaale and the Trave. The Aller had accommodations for 244 first-class, 94 second class, 850 steerage passengers in addition to 170 officers and men. Her upper deck was of oak and the deck houses of teak and steel. Strongly built turtle backs at each end protected her from heavy seas. Her dining saloon was a spacious apartment 50 by 40 feet, and was lighted by an open well from the ladies' saloon on the upper deck. Special attention had also been paid to the ventilation of the Steerage. Her machinery was considered to be first class in every particular. She was fitted with the largest triple expansion engines yet constructed. The high-pressure cylinder was 44 inches, the intermediate pressure cylinder 70 inches, and the low-pressure cylinder 108 inches in diameter, each adapted for a stroke of 6 feet. All the cylinders were provided with equilibrium piston valves. The boilers were six in number, multitubular, and fired from each end. Each was 14 feet 2 inches in diameter and 18 feet 9 inches long, and had 6 corrugated furnaces. The boilers were entirely of steel, and sustained a pressure of 150 pounds to the square inch. The propeller had four blades of man bronze. 

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The next post will be dedicated to the ship which Michael Schochenmaier came on)))

When did the second Schochenmaiers come to the New World?

As we did it for Jacob Schochenmaier, we can discover the date of immigration of Michael Schochenmaier with his family as well.

On the FamilySearch you can find "United States Russians to America Index, 1834-1897" where among others the date of arrival of Michael Schochenmaier is to be discovered. The only one problem is that his surname was written with "y" instead of "i": SCHOCHENMAYER.

So, the 4th May 1887 is the day when the second family of Schochenmaiers (and possibly the last one) had come to the U.S. 

He came with his wife Christine (née Winkler, 1858-1926): 

and with two first elder kids:

Catherine (Katherine, 1884-1966), who will later marry Johann Klien (1875-1936)

and any "Wilhelm Schochenmayer". At first, I was struck by that Wilhelm because the first son of Michael had been Fred(rich) born in 1888, the first born in the New World as well... It looks very suspiciously... but then I read carefully all lines and cheked out our family tree on the Ancestry.com and I realized that this Wilchelm is surely the short and/or wrong version of Wilhelmina Schochenmaier, the last born in the Russian Empire (1885/7-1963), who will later marry to Christian Odenbach (1886-1962). It's also justified by the gender of that baby: 

I wonder why the younger brother Jacob Schochenmaier (1861/2-1923) came first and only then, almost one year later, the elder brother Michael joined him? 

• It looks like if the first one was a "mine detector": after having settled in the USA, he sent the message and confirmed that it was secure to come... 
• Or, maybe, the younger generation is always more adventuruous)))
• Or, at that time, they needed "smiths", so Jacob came first and then Micahel the "Farmer" as a near of kin...      

In the next post, I will tell you about the ships on which they came to America!