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David Dreyer's Ship List
1896 - 1938
Data extracted from passenger arrival manifests & border crossing records for the ports of
Baltimore, Ellis Island, Galveston, Philadelphia, Canadian ports and Bremen departure records
Last Updated 08 October, 2025

Name

Age

Arrived

Ship

Ports

Destination

State

Village

Comments

Name	Age	Arrived	Ship	Ports	Destination	State	Village	Comments
SCHWARZ Karl	36	30 Sep 1912	President Lincoln	Cuxhaven/NY	Chicago	IL	Freidorf	Accompanied by wife Elisabeth 30, children Franziska 10, Michael 8, Karl 4, Nikolaus 2. Father Nikolaus Zimmerman lives in Freidorf . All born in Neubeschenowa. Going to acquaintance Karl Andresz.
RITTINGER Nikolaus	54	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Dickinson	ND	Dolatz	Accompanied by wife Katherine 53 and daughter Katherine 13. Going to brother-in-law Adam Biel.
GIEL Maria	26	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Dickinson	ND	Dolatz	Accompanied by children Michael 11 and Thomas 9. Going to husband Joseph Giel.
WEBER Susanna	21	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Dickinson	ND	Dolatz	Accompanied by children Michael 3 and Sophia 10 months. Going to husband Adam Weber.
BAYER Maria	26	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Dickinson	ND	Dolatz	Going to husband Stefan Bayer.
TORMASY Maria	33	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Dickinson	ND	Tolwadia	Accompanied by children Johann 13, Katherine 4 , Anna 2 and Anna 4 months. Going to husband Heinrich Tormasy.
BIEL Elisabeth	43	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Dickinson	ND	Dolatz	Accompanied by children Anna 16, Nikolaus 11, Heinrich 5 and Katherine 2. Going to husband Adam Biel.
ANTIS Anton	35	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz	Accompanied by wife Magdalena 42 and daughter Eva 10. Going to wife's cousin Philipp Weber.
SPRINGER Nikolaus	46	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz	Accompanied by wife Anna 38, children Magdalena 17, Katherine 15, Anton 4 and Anna 2. Going to acquaintance Philipp Weber.
STUMPER Johann	39	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz	Accompanied by wife Anna 38, children Magdalena 17, Katherine 15, Anton 4 and Anna 2. Going to acquaintance Philipp Weber.
STUMPER Johann	39	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz	Going to acquaintance Philipp Weber.
TABOR Johann	58	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz
BIKO Lorenz	33	12 Oct 1897	Ellen Rickmers	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz
RETTINGER Maria	17	17 Apr 1903	Patricia	Hamburg/NY	McKeesport	PA	Warjasch	Traveling with Elisabeth Rettinger 19.
DORNER Anton	36	27 Jul 1898	Switzerland	Antwerp/Philadelphia	Mansfield	OH	Pantschowa	Going to brother-in-law Franz Legi?
DORNER Eva	32	19 May 1899	Rhein	Bremen/Baltimore	Mansfield	OH	Pantschowa	Traveling with children Joseph 7, Edward 5, Elisabeth 11months. Going to husband Anton Dorner.
BIEL Adam	45	26 May 1897	Dresden	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz	Going to relatives.
TORMASY Heinrich	30	26 May 1897	Dresden	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz	Going to relatives.
GIEL Joseph	35	26 May 1897	Dresden	Bremen/Baltimore	Richardton	ND	Dolatz	Going to relatives.
BIEL Ernest	22	1 Sep 1897	Muenchen	Bremen/Baltimore	Hebron	ND	Dolatz	Going to his father. Single.

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Sources:
	1. "Morton-Allan Directory of European passenger Steamship Arrivals", Baltimore, 1987 2. Hungarian Royal Central Statistical Office, "Hungarian Statistical Publications", Vol. 67, p. 47, 1918 3. Regenyi, Isabella and Scherer, Anton, "Donauschwabeabische Ortsnamen Buch", AKdFF, Second corrected edition, Darmstadt, 1987 4. Tepper, Michael, "American Passenger Arrival Records", Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore 1988 5. "Immigrant and Passenger Arrivals". Catalog of National Archives Microfilm Publications. National Archives Trust Fund Board, Washington DC 1983 6. "A Century of European Migrations 1830-1930, R. J. Vecoli and S, M Sinke, Eds. Univ Ill Press 1991. 7. "Round-Trip To America", M Wyman. Cornell Univ Press 1993
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