04/09/2024
Well, I might as well continue with the trend (and I encourage all of my geneapeeps to do the same, even if you have to post a pic of the Mayflower). My last pic was the ship that brought my most recent immigrant ancestor, Domenico Salvatore Lacopo, to the United States in 1910. The next most recent would be his father, but he came multiple times, and I need to find several pics. But in third place are my great-great-grandparents, Helmuth Carl August Ruthsatz, and his wife, Antonie Dorothea Haake. Married in 1892 in Braunschweig, they left Bremen on 21 September 1893, on the S.S. Weimar with their six-month-old son Rudolf, destined for Stevensville, Michigan, where Helmuth's older sister and family had settled four years previously. They arrived in Baltimore on 04 October 1893. The S.S. Weimar was a relatively new ship, built in Glasgow in 1891 for the North German Lloyd line of Bremen. After multiple sales beginning in 1908, the then Canadian-owned ship was torpedoed by a German submarine in 1917 and sunk in the Mediterranean. In her steamship heyday, the Weimar could carry 49 first-class passengers, 28 second-class passengers, and 1,907 third-class passengers. Seven months after their arrival, Antonie gave birth to her third of fifteen children, my great-grandfather, Wilhelm Carl Ferdinand "William" Ruthsatz.
