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Manifest of the Wilhelmsburg page 1 - KRANTZ family lines 11-15 |
Child 1: (age 12)
Caroline (Albertine) Wilhelmine KRANZ
born: 9.1.1846
baptised: 18.1.1846
Werbelow, Trebenow, Prenzlau, Brandenburg, Germany (Prussia)
Child 2: (age 9)
Auguste Wilhelmine Ernestine KRANZ
born: 26.12.1848
baptised: 7.1.1849
Child 3: (age 7)
Carl Wilhelm Friedrich KRANZ
born: 9.12.1851
baptised: 17.12.1851
Child 4: (age 4)
August Friedrich Wilhelm KRANZ
born: 29.6.1854
baptised: 9.7.1854
Some shipping detail of The Wilhelmsburg:
Left Hamburg on 19 October 1858;
Arrived at East London on 13 January 1859;
64 children and one adult died en route.
Ship's captain: Captain C.H. Müller
Ship's doctor: Dr Carl Paul (26), Weimar
Eventually of course, Caroline Wilhelmina died - on 10.3.1918 age 73 in Joubert Street, Bethulie. Three months later, her second husband Michael SCHAEFER also died, age 83 - on 9.6.1918 in his son-in-law's house, Bethulie.
They are buried in the Bethulie Main cemetery:
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