Can anyone decipher old German handwriting?
Here's a ship's passenger manifest from 1852 which includes my ancestors. However I do not know what the headings say other than London and New York. Can anyone interpret the headings? Maybe the ship's name, dates or other clues to help me put this in context?
Thank you in advance!
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Here's what I can read for the headings:
Top: London New York Mailship Line
Left page:
Current number
Number
the border?/ the ships agreement?
The Emigrants
Name/ Residence
Kreis and Regierungsbezirk (both are government districts, a Kreis is similar to a county level district and a
Regierungsbezirk is a larger district)
Status of the Emigrant
Age
Right page:
Crossing Price
Th[aler] / Pg [Pfennig]
With or without spouse
Name of the Ship/of the Captain
The Departure ?????
From the Rhine Station
On
From Rotterdam on
From London on
Remarks
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@Douglas3983 , If you have a link to the record, you can attach it.
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great! Appreciate you making sense of this handwriting — way beyond me.
Here's one more for you: the crossing price Th[aler] / Pg [Pfennig] listed reads like a fraction — 34/23. Does that make sense for a crossing price? BTW, there were eight family members in this group.
thanks agin!
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@Douglas3983 , I just put a / between the Th an the Pg to indicate it was two different columns. It's not a fraction. So if it was 34 in one column and 23 in the next column I would read it as 34 Thaler and 23 Pfennig.
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ah, no, I meant that the figures that were written next to my ancestors were written like a fraction — 34 over 23. Just not sure how to interpret that or if it's just some clerk's esoteric notation.
thanks,
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