Hallo Sven,
Yes, I know that dates and ages can be tricky when it comes to immigration. Even last names were often written differently from the original ones.
Indeed Mayer is a very common last name!
I searched through the only Family Register available
Family register 1808-1851 volume 10 and found some Mayer households, but none of them had a Jacob born around 1817-1818. They were either in the 1700s or later.
Jacob married in 1846 in New Orleans to a woman named Catherine Klein, native of Gundershoffen, Alsace.
My friend does not have a marriage certificate for them. She was only able to obtain a recordation of the marriage, which does not mention the age of the spouses nor the names of their parents. But I was able to trace the ancestry of the woman because she had other relatives.
As for the immigration records, I have found two, both in 1840.
One vessel "Brig Vesta", from Bremen to New York, lists a Jacob Mayer age 24, butcher, from Germany.
The other one, "Ship Charles" from Le Havre to New Orleans, listing a Jacob Mayer, 23, from Bavaria, apperantly a farmer.
Patrizia
Hallo,
die Altersangaben stimmen nicht immer ganz genau, zumal derjenige ja in Amerika verstorben ist.
Was steht denn bei seiner Hochzeit drin ? Woher kommt die Frau.
Gibt es keine Aufzeichnungen mit welchen Schiff er nach Amerika ging ?
Der Familienname Mayer gibt es leider oft, das wird wirklich schwierig.
Die Familienregister fehlen noch für diese Zeit, dort ist öfter mals vermerkt, wenn jemand ausgewandert ist.
Sven
