Showing posts with label Schochenmayer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Schochenmayer. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

When did the first Schochenmaiers come to the New World?

Such an interesting question can be answered with a high precision )))

On the website of Ancestry you can find Passengers Lists of those who came to Ellis Island from Bremen between 1820-1957. Among others the date of arrival of Jacob Schochenmaier (1861-1923) is to be seen. That's it on May 3, 1886.  The only one problem is that his surname was written lake that: Jacob Schockomeyer. It seems to be that the writer had a bad penmanship. 

http://sharing.ancestry.ca/3824883?h=903cea 



He had been accompanied by his wife Barbara Schochenmaier (née Martin, 1861-1944) and their first daughter Maria (1885-1976). Below you find a clicable fragment of that Passengers List: 




It's interesting to discover that Jacob had been a "smith" and not "farmer" as it was noticed for his brother Michael!

The whole page therefrom:




The first page of that list with date and additional info:





Well, the 3rd May could be a day of commemoration or even a holiday of the New World Schochenmaiers)))