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Were infant names included on passenger lists?

JoyMaine

My son's 3G grandfather arrived in Baltimore on the SS Anna in Nov 1866 but his daughter born in Prussia in 1865 isn't listed.   Yet  she is on both the 1870 and 1880 census with the family in Iowa.

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    Usually infants are listed on passenger arrival lists.  You did not give either her or her father's name nor if both parents arrived together, so we cannot check for her arrival.  My guess is that she came a bit later with either her mother or another relative.

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    Both father and mother were on the passenger list, as were two siblings.  The last name was Ostercafort.  There were other possible relatives as well, but I haven't been able to track them down.  For now, I'm just wondering why this child was not listed.  To make it more interesting, the child born in 1865 in Germany was named Theresia Franzisca, not Anna.  Birth record says born Dec 20, 1965, but later marriage record for Anna says Dec 25, 1865.  BTW, I've also looked for similar names, as the name on her birth certificate was Oestercofort, in St Paul, IA census it was Cofort, sister's baptism in 1885 was under the name Korforth, and they later changed their name to Grossekemper (under several spellings).  

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    #122 Theresia Franziska, b. 20 Dec 1865 in Österwiehe, baptized 21 Dec at St. Maria Immaculata, Kaunitz
    father: Heinrich GrosseKemper, born Ostercofort
    mother: Theresia Hansmeier
    https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/paderborn/DE_EBAP_23701/KB010-01-T/?pg=362

    GrosseKemper or Grossekamper may have been the farm or estate that he lived on.

    Looking at the rest of the passenger list there are no infants listed (the youngest that I saw was 2.5 yrs old; so maybe they were not listed.

  • 0 in reply to Susannah Brooks

    I had already found her baptismal record on Family Search, which is why I wondered why she was called Anna (nicknamed after the ship SS Anna?).  I, too, could not find any infants listed on the passenger manifests, which is why I wondered if infants were, as a rule, listed.  

    As for the Grosekemper name, the family story was that they changed their name to Grosekemper because their previous name (Coford or Cofort) was the name of their "master", and they wanted ttheir own identify.  I have found a Grosekemper family in Germany, but in a different location.

    BTW, thank you for the link to the image of the baptismal record.  I hadn't found that before, only the record itself.