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Compiled by Gretchen Elsner-Sommer (nee Gretsch)

 

Regina and Philip Sommer

               June 1837

               New York City,  "Defender" 

               (parents of Elizabeth, Louis, William  and Anna Sommer; Grandparents of Charlotte Sommer Gretsch)

Jacob B. Gretsch

               April 22, 1852

               New York from Le Harve, "Gallia"

               farmer from Wurtenburg

               (son of Dorethea Wild of Oberstein Rheinish Prussia and Casimir Gretsch) 

Rosina Artz (Married Jacob Gretsch in Trier, 1849. Mother of Emilie Gretsch born in Brooklyn 1854)

               April 19, 1853

               from London, "Wisconsin"

               20 years old 

Anna Artz (Sister of Rosina Artz. Married Jacob Gretsch in N.Y.C. 1868. Mother of Wilhelmina Gretsch born in Brooklyn 1869)

               June 27, 1854

               from Le Harve, "William Tell"

               23 years old

August Gretsch

               June 5, 1871

               New York City from Le Harve, "Holsatia"       M -27years old-steward

               (son of Katherine Fick and William Gretsch

               born March 22, 1847, mother died March 24, 1853)

               (Did he grow up in the household of his step mother, Anna Maria von Gereichten? August left for America shortly
                before Anna Maria died in August 28, 1871. His step brothers and sisters soon followed.) 

Pauline Gretsch

               October 25, 1871

               New York City from Hamburg, "Vandalia"

               20 years old- female single

               (daughter of Carl Gretsch brother of William. First cousin to Fritz Gretsch.)

               from Boppard.

               She was probably the first Gretsch woman to come to America. Soon her cousins from Manheim would follow.

Friedrick William Gretsch

               May 13, 1873

               New York City from Hamburg, "Vandalia"

               17 years old-male-Merchant

               (second child of Mary von Gerichten and William Gretsch)

               Anna Maria died in August, 1871, William remarried June 1, 1872, William died September 3, 1875.

Louis Gretsch

               June 17, 1876

               New York City from Hamburg and Le Harve, "Pommeranzed"

               16 years old -male- merchant

               (fifth child of Mary von Gerichten and William Gretsch)

Pauline Gretsch

               Octoer 16, 1877

               New York City from Hamburg and Le Harve, " Gellert"

               21 years old-Single- Female

               (third child of Mary von Gerichten and William Gretsch)

Phillipine Gretsch

               February 21, 1878

               18 years old

               New York City from Hamburg and Le Harve "Lessing"

               (sixth child of Mary von Gerichten & William Gretsch)

Phillip Gretsch

        July 3, 1884

                New York City from Antwerp, "Nordland"

Jacob Gretsch

        July 3, 1884

                Arrived on the same day as his brother Phillip but on a different boat.

Christian  Dieter, 21 years old,  Bricklayer  (Father of Helen Dieter Elsner)
Adam Dieter, 18 years old, Bricklayer

               Going to Kansas

              September 13, 1879

               Baltimore from Bremen “Ohio”

Sophia Hertlein (Married Carl Gretsch, June 1, 1891. N.Y.C.)

               October. 25,1887

               22 years old, traveling alone, one bag

               New York City from Rotterdam “ P.Caland”

Carl Gretsch

                Nov. 16, 1888

               26 years old, carrying three bags,

               Next to a young man, John H. Kistner, also a merchant

               New York City from Rotterdam, “N.J. Leerdam”

               (Seventh child of Mary von Gerichten and Wm. Gretsch)

P. Gretsch

               June 27, 1878

               22 years old

                New York, W.A. Scholten

               All the passengers on this ship were German.

               There was a priest on either side of this young woman.

               There were only five women traveling alone on this ship.

                Perhaps, she is Pauline Gretsch retuning to America after a trip home to Germany.

              

                

 

 

This page was last edited on  09/16/2004