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From: "Beverly Markham" <>
Subject: Re: Immigration Shipping Agents
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 07:28:56 -0000


Dear John, I see that you mention the name OTTO. I have OTTO names in my
lines. They lived in Cabarlah/Geham/Highfields and their names were Johann
August OTTO and his wife Marie ZIELINSKA. Their son Adolf OTTO married
Marie POLZIN. The other OTTO family that married into my lines was Emil OTTO
whose parents were August OTTO and Pauline GELL. Emil married Luise Auguest
Emilie TROST.
Are either of these OTTO families the ones you mention in your note?
Please tell me one way or another. Thanks, Beverly.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Kehrer <>
To: <>
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 1:10 PM
Subject: Immigration Shipping Agents

>In looking for newspaper reports on the ships which brought my German
>ancestors to Brisbane, I noticed that there were only a limited number of
>Immigration Shipping Agents. For example, "Berens, Ranniger and Co" who
>where the agents for the "Herschel" in July 1874 on which the inter-related
>KEHRER, BECK and OTTO families emigrated. These particular agents
advertised
>the coming of this ship from late March of that year, before it had even
>left Hamburg!
>
>What role did these agents have? Are there any records extant for them?
Does
>anyone know of any others?
>
>Surely this is a topic worth exploring and exchanging ideas.
>
>Jon Kehrer
>Canberra ACT Australia

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