Appendix 1: Sanftleben Family
Emigration
Maiden Voyage of the Bohemia
Hamburg & Havre – NY 30. 10. to 16 Nov 1881
Johann Vollrath Elias
Sanftleben (b: February 1840)
+Carolina Dorothea Frederick
Elisabeth Kobernuss (b: 20 Mar, 1841)
Maria Dorothea Johanna Fischer-Kobernuss (b: 07 Mar 1814
(Traveling with daughter and son-in-law and their children)
Note: Maria probably was
born in Waren and moved to Alt-Gaarz where she
married into the Kobernuss family. Her sons and a
nephew immigrated to Buffalo/Tonawanda in 1869,
1870 and 1873. After her husband died in 1875, she
probably lived with her daughter Friederike and
son-in-law in Friederich Sanftleben in Alt-Gaarz
until 1881 when they departed for the US to join
her son Carl Kobernuss in Oak Park, IL.
Marie apparently lived with the Sanftleben family
near Carl and Sophie at 641 or 643 Woodbine
until her death in 1907 the same year Carl and
Sophie died in their home at 647 Woodbine.
Bohemia: Date of Arrival: 30 Oct
1881 - 16.11.1881 Maiden Voyage
Built
in `1881. The "Bohemia" was built by
A&J.Inglis & Co, Glasgow as the Bengore
Head" for the Ulster Steamship Co. She was a
3,410 gross ton ship, Length 350.5ft x beam
40.2ft, one funnel, two masts, iron construction,
single screw and a speed of 12 knots.
Accommodation for 100-1st and 1,200-2nd class
passengers. Launched on 25/8/1881, she was sold
to Hamburg America Line on 30/9/1881 and left
Hamburg on her maiden voyage to New York on
30/10/1881. On 16/3/1892 she commenced a
single round voyage from Hamburg to New York and
Baltimore, and on 17/5/1893 commenced her first
voyage between Stettin, Helsingborg, Gothenburg,
Christiansand and New York. She started her last
voyage between Hamburg and New York on 2/4/1897
and on 11/6/1897 commenced sailings between
Hamburg, Philadelphia and Baltimore. In 1898 she
was sold to the Sloman Line of Hamburg, renamed
"Pompeii" and made three Hamburg - New
York voyages before being sold to an Italian
company in 1900 and being renamed
"Pompei". She was scrapped in 1905 at
Spezia, Italy.