Relative Immigration
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Maria Meÿer, the oldest daughter of Peter and Anna (Gerken) Meÿer, emigrated from Germany before the rest of her family. Fred Eggers noted that Maria Meÿer arrived in New Orleans on board the Bremen ship Carl along the first group of immigrants to Perry County, Missouri from Scheeßel, Germany.
Manifest of Passengers
A copy of two pages of the Bremen ship Carl, New Orleans Passenger Manifest 22 Oct 1866 are shown below:
The Captain/Master was C.F.[Christian Friedrich] Otten, delivering 461 passengers on this voyage from the Port of Bremerhaven to New Orleans. Maria Meÿer is passenger 31 which appears on the 8th line of the second page of the passenger manifest.
Transcription
| Name: | Marie Meÿer |
|---|---|
| Arrival Date: | 22 Oct 1866 |
| Port of Arrival: | United States |
| Birth Date: | abt 1842 |
| Age: | 24 |
| Gender: | Female |
| Port of Departure: | Bremen, Germany |
| Ship Name: | Carl |
Information Source
Ancestry.com. New Orleans, Passenger List Quarterly Abstracts, 1820-1875 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Transatlantic Crossing Time
Departure date from Bremerhaven: 25 Aug 1866
Arrival date at the Port of New Orleans: 22 Oct 1866.
Time to cross: (6+30+22 = 58 days) over 8 weeks.
Sailing vessels typically required about 6 weeks to cross the Atlantic, but varied from less than 5 weeks to up to 8 weeks or more as reported in Statistics concerning the transatlantic crossing.
Discussion
Passenger No, 23 at the bottom of page 1 is Johann Miesner who from the passenger manifest has been in the USA before and is returning from a trip to Germany. Maria Meÿer married Johann Miesner two months after arriving in New Orlean on 20 Dec 1866 in Altenburg, Perry, Missouri. So by the time Maria’s parents, Anna (Gerken) and Peter Meÿer, arrived in New Orleans on 7 Oct 1869, Maria had been in Missouri three years and was married almost the same amount of time.
Passenger No. 24 at the top of the second page is Claus Miesner, the half brother of Johann Miesner. Passenger No. 25 is Anna Meier. Claus Miesner married a Maria Meier on 12 Jan 1871 at Farrar, Perry, Missouri. Could this Anna be the same Maria that Claus married 4 years after arriving in Missouri?