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List of passengers of the Lippe-Detmold emigrants who departed from Bremen, May 4 1847, and finished their journey in the township of Herman in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin USA. The ship's name was the "Agnes of Bremen."

source: The Lipper-Detmolder Settlement in Wisconsin, by Jerome B. Arpke, Germania Publishing Company, Milwaukee Wisconsin, 1895

Digital scans of Arpke's book are available in pdf fomat.

[The author, Jerome Arpke, has acknowledged in his book the possibility of errors as many of these names came from his memory. If any reader finds errors, please send corrections to the email address at the bottom of this web page.]

See the 1862 map of the Town of Herman that shows where many of these settlers lived.

1. Widow Marie Arpke
children: Simon, C. Friederich, Conradine (married to S. Luhman), Adolph

2. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Buker
children: Friedrich, Amalia (Brunger), Caroline (Sieker), Helene (footnote 1)

3. Mr. and Mrs. (footnote 2) Friedrich Domeier
children: Wilhelm, Sophia (F. Fasse), Friedrich

4. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Helming
child: Herman

5. Mr. and Mrs. Heinrich Luhman
no children

6. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Luhman
children: Simon, Friedrich, Charlotte (married to Reineking), Heinrich (footnote 3), Karoline (married to A. Arpke)

7. Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Marten
children: Friedericke (married to S. Arpke), Heinrich, Sophie (married to Stoelting or Stolting), Adolph

8. Mr. and Mrs. Franz Nagel
children: Minna (married to Schnulle), Sophie (married to Stock), Charlotte (married to Kuhn), Louise (married to Klocke), Maria Rupf

9. Mr. and Mrs. Friedrich Reineking
Amalia (married to Stock), Friedrich, Simon, Wilhelm

10. Mr. and Mrs. Christian Schafer
children: Maria (married to Ulm), Amalia (married to Siebold), Christian, Friedrich (footnote 4), Simon, Wilhelm, Sophie (married to Hahn)

11. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Steffen
child: Simon

12. Widower F. Stock
children: Friederich, Louise, Heinrich

13. Mr. and Mrs. Heinrich Uphof
children: Adolph, Sophie (married to C.F. Arpke), Henriette (Bierhaus)-(Ohse)

14. Boedecker (no parents)
Friederich, Heinrich

15. Widower Schmieding (footnote 5)
Amalia (married to A. Marten) [Amalia actually appears to have been married to Johann Friederich Martensmeier]

16. Steffen (no parents)
Friedrich, Sophie (married to Anton Weber)

17. Wehrmann (no parents)
Karl, Katherine (married to S. Reineking)

Single Women

1. Miss Louise Bartrich (footnote 6)

2. Miss Katharina Limburg (footnote 7)

Other Young Men

1. Delendorf

2. Friedrich Mueller

3. Wilhelm Dreie

4. Adolph Nagel

5. Fritz Nagel

6. Friedrich Schormann

7. Conrad Stock

8. Simon Stock

9. Conrad Sunderman

10. Tegler

11. August Toensmeier

12. Vornberg

Footnotes

1. died on ship, aged 4 years and some months

2. died on ship

3. died in Mobile, Alabama

4. died in the American Civil War

5. died on ship

6. A seamstress, better known as "Pastor's Minchen," stayed in Buffalo.

7. A seamstress, who stayed in Milwaukee, where she married F. Frenzes.

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Last updated: February 11, 2006.