Hi Gang,
I am very excited that I **might** have finally found parents and siblings for my
husband's Ggrandfather (after 8 years of searching)! Since we cannot let name spelling
hold us back from possibilities, I managed to find this entry to the manifest for the 1
July 1852 arrival of the ship Java at pre-CastleGarden New York. Then while checking the
US information we have located for our Christian F. KOEHLER against the ship's
manifest, I found:
The port of origin works!
The arrival location works!
The arrival date works!
The parents' names work!
Christian's age works!
I'm sure I must have overlooked checking something....
or (at the least) have forgotten to add it to this list.
Anyway, the manifest for this particular family shows:
Ch. KOEHN farmer age 45
Marie KOEHN wife age 40
*Christian KOEHN son age 14
Heinrich KOEHN son age 14
Marie KOEHN daughter age 9
Ludwig KOEHN son age 9m
Okay, now I hope that you'll help me by
thinking of things that I have not!
Thanks,
Leslie Kohler