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From: Gery and Sue Swiggum< >
Subject: Re: [TSL] Germans to American
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 12:55:45 -0300

Hi Elaine,

At 10:49 AM 5/1/99 EDT, wrote:
>I can't get pass my brickwall, my great grandparents came from Germany,
but I
>can't find any information on them, except their names on my grandfathers
>death cert. my grandfather was born in Wisconsin in April 1864, his birth
was
>not registered that I can find. I am looking for William WITTE and Mattelda
>(MORGANSTINE) WITTE, both born Germany, do not know it they were married
>before or after they arrived in America, but they came before April 1864.
>If someone would do a look-up for me I would be eternally grateful. Elaine

I don't want to sound negative, but there is a possibility that your Wittes
arrived via Quebec, as they settled in Wisconsin. Unfortunately, Quebec
did not begin archiving until 1865, so no record will be found. Marj Kohli
has the Immigration report for 1862 at
http://dcs1.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/thevoyage.html
and it mentions over 2500 German immigrants arriving in Quebec that year.
I have some German passenger lists for 1865, and apart from a few destined
for Canada, the majority [when this information is noted] state a
destination of the US Mid-west.
If they did arrive by this route, then it would have been before
mid-November 1863. The St. Lawrence was closed to shipping during the
winter months, and the first ship into the port of Montreal in 1864 was the
Allan Line ARDMILLAN which arrived on April 28th.

Sue
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