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! 

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)))

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What is Rohrbach today like?

As I said, after 1944 Ukrainian Rohrbach had been renamed to Novosvetlovka. According to Census 2001, about 1410 inhabitants are living there.

The village has a high school (314 pupils and 31 teacher), a culture center with 550 seats, two libraries with 23.4 thousand books, ambulant clinic with three paramedics, kindergarten with 140 children, seven stores, one eating house, sewing classroom, post office, PBX with 50 numbers and a savings bank.

Some of German offsprings from the U.S. or Canada come here to take pictures and to commemorate their ancestors. Here below you'll find some photos from that blog: http://hin-und-zuruck.blogspot.de/

Typical houses:

The transportation is the same as 100 years ago)))

The Ukranian name of Rohrbach today:

Buildings of the past:

Offspring of German colonists from the USA and the memorial plate on the occasion of 200 jubilee years :

Museum dedicated to German colonists:

Typical German houses which are used till our days:

General view:

German rests:

My heart is beating faster when I figure out how my great grandparents walked and lived there...