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.

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