She came from Segesberg, Holstein Germany.
She came here with her father Andreas F Steffen age 56 and my great grandmother Emma Schramm age. 9, who I think was the daughter of her sister Lizbeth or I think actually Ilsabein
I wish I knew the story of what happened and why they left.
You just gotta read the story I have in the photo section of how she ran liqour money at night in her carriage beating off robbers with her whip.
Catherine Steffen married Henry Gens, and her niece Emma Schramm married Henry's brother William Gens , a little confusing.
Also in this area was Catherine's sister Minnie Steffen Schroeder of Laona. Minnie came over about 21 years after Catherine, in 1906. This makes Minnie another aunt of Emma, my greatgrandmother.
I heard she was quite a strong woman, to put it one way. Others might use different words. Nephew Clarence Haenel recalled she "was an old rip." to use an antique phrase. That's all I feel like saying. I get scared reading about her, but I know it is not my place to judge her, it is God's. The Buffalo newspapers got quite a kick out her running liquor money in the night and beating off robbers attacking her horse drawn carriage.
When she was 23 years old she sailed on 27 Sept 1885 from Hamburg, Germany to New York on a ship called the Lessing of the "Hamburg-Amerika Linie". Captain Voss/ Name: Cath.E Steffen, Gender: weiblich (Female). Marital status: ledig (Single). Departure Age: 23
Birth Date: abt 1862. Residence Place: Segeberg, Holstein
Departure Date: 27 Sep 1885. Departure Place: Hamburg, Deutschland (Germany). Arrival Place: New York
Ship Name: Lessing. Captain: Voss. Shipping Clerk: F. C. D. Müller
Shipping Line: Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft). Ship Type: Dampfschiff. Ship Flag: Deutschland. Accommodation: Zwischendeck, Name Age:Andr Fr Steffen 56. Cath.e Steffen 23. Emma Schramm .
She came here with her father Andreas F Steffen age 56 and my great grandmother Emma Schramm age. 9, who I think was the daughter of her sister Lizbeth or I think actually Ilsabein
I wish I knew the story of what happened and why they left.
You just gotta read the story I have in the photo section of how she ran liqour money at night in her carriage beating off robbers with her whip.
Catherine Steffen married Henry Gens, and her niece Emma Schramm married Henry's brother William Gens , a little confusing.
Also in this area was Catherine's sister Minnie Steffen Schroeder of Laona. Minnie came over about 21 years after Catherine, in 1906. This makes Minnie another aunt of Emma, my greatgrandmother.
I heard she was quite a strong woman, to put it one way. Others might use different words. Nephew Clarence Haenel recalled she "was an old rip." to use an antique phrase. That's all I feel like saying. I get scared reading about her, but I know it is not my place to judge her, it is God's. The Buffalo newspapers got quite a kick out her running liquor money in the night and beating off robbers attacking her horse drawn carriage.
When she was 23 years old she sailed on 27 Sept 1885 from Hamburg, Germany to New York on a ship called the Lessing of the "Hamburg-Amerika Linie". Captain Voss/ Name: Cath.E Steffen, Gender: weiblich (Female). Marital status: ledig (Single). Departure Age: 23
Birth Date: abt 1862. Residence Place: Segeberg, Holstein
Departure Date: 27 Sep 1885. Departure Place: Hamburg, Deutschland (Germany). Arrival Place: New York
Ship Name: Lessing. Captain: Voss. Shipping Clerk: F. C. D. Müller
Shipping Line: Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft). Ship Type: Dampfschiff. Ship Flag: Deutschland. Accommodation: Zwischendeck, Name Age:Andr Fr Steffen 56. Cath.e Steffen 23. Emma Schramm .
She came from Segesberg, Holstein Germany.
She came here with her father Andreas F Steffen age 56 and my great grandmother Emma Schramm age. 9, who I think was the daughter of her sister Lizbeth or I think actually Ilsabein
I wish I knew the story of what happened and why they left.
You just gotta read the story I have in the photo section of how she ran liqour money at night in her carriage beating off robbers with her whip.
Catherine Steffen married Henry Gens, and her niece Emma Schramm married Henry's brother William Gens , a little confusing.
Also in this area was Catherine's sister Minnie Steffen Schroeder of Laona. Minnie came over about 21 years after Catherine, in 1906. This makes Minnie another aunt of Emma, my greatgrandmother.
I heard she was quite a strong woman, to put it one way. Others might use different words. Nephew Clarence Haenel recalled she "was an old rip." to use an antique phrase. That's all I feel like saying. I get scared reading about her, but I know it is not my place to judge her, it is God's. The Buffalo newspapers got quite a kick out her running liquor money in the night and beating off robbers attacking her horse drawn carriage.
When she was 23 years old she sailed on 27 Sept 1885 from Hamburg, Germany to New York on a ship called the Lessing of the "Hamburg-Amerika Linie". Captain Voss/ Name: Cath.E Steffen, Gender: weiblich (Female). Marital status: ledig (Single). Departure Age: 23
Birth Date: abt 1862. Residence Place: Segeberg, Holstein
Departure Date: 27 Sep 1885. Departure Place: Hamburg, Deutschland (Germany). Arrival Place: New York
Ship Name: Lessing. Captain: Voss. Shipping Clerk: F. C. D. Müller
Shipping Line: Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft). Ship Type: Dampfschiff. Ship Flag: Deutschland. Accommodation: Zwischendeck, Name Age:Andr Fr Steffen 56. Cath.e Steffen 23. Emma Schramm .
She came here with her father Andreas F Steffen age 56 and my great grandmother Emma Schramm age. 9, who I think was the daughter of her sister Lizbeth or I think actually Ilsabein
I wish I knew the story of what happened and why they left.
You just gotta read the story I have in the photo section of how she ran liqour money at night in her carriage beating off robbers with her whip.
Catherine Steffen married Henry Gens, and her niece Emma Schramm married Henry's brother William Gens , a little confusing.
Also in this area was Catherine's sister Minnie Steffen Schroeder of Laona. Minnie came over about 21 years after Catherine, in 1906. This makes Minnie another aunt of Emma, my greatgrandmother.
I heard she was quite a strong woman, to put it one way. Others might use different words. Nephew Clarence Haenel recalled she "was an old rip." to use an antique phrase. That's all I feel like saying. I get scared reading about her, but I know it is not my place to judge her, it is God's. The Buffalo newspapers got quite a kick out her running liquor money in the night and beating off robbers attacking her horse drawn carriage.
When she was 23 years old she sailed on 27 Sept 1885 from Hamburg, Germany to New York on a ship called the Lessing of the "Hamburg-Amerika Linie". Captain Voss/ Name: Cath.E Steffen, Gender: weiblich (Female). Marital status: ledig (Single). Departure Age: 23
Birth Date: abt 1862. Residence Place: Segeberg, Holstein
Departure Date: 27 Sep 1885. Departure Place: Hamburg, Deutschland (Germany). Arrival Place: New York
Ship Name: Lessing. Captain: Voss. Shipping Clerk: F. C. D. Müller
Shipping Line: Hamburg-Amerika Linie (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft). Ship Type: Dampfschiff. Ship Flag: Deutschland. Accommodation: Zwischendeck, Name Age:Andr Fr Steffen 56. Cath.e Steffen 23. Emma Schramm .
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