Josephine Anna Mary (Stepany) (Greninger) Witt, my second great grandmother. . .
New York, New York Anna Stepan arrived in the United States of America on June 06, 1870 from Austria, via Bremen, Germany.
Name: Anna Stepan
Arrival Date: 6 Jun 1870
Birth Date: abt 1850
Age: 20
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/ Nationality: Austrian
Place of Origin: Austria
Port of Departure: Bremen, Germany
Destination: United States of America
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Ship Name: Weser
Ship Name: Weser
Years in service: 1867-1896
Shipping Line: North German Lloyd
Ship description: Built by Caird & Co., Greenock, Scotland. Tonnage: 2,871. Dimensions: 351′ x 40′. Single-screw, 11 1/2 knots. Inverted engines. Two masts and one funnel. Iron hull.
History: Launched, March 19, 1867.
Maiden voyage: Bremen-Southampton-New York, June 1, 1867.
Re-engined with compounds in 1881.
Speed increased to 13 1/2 knots.
Scrapped in 1896.
Running mates: America, Deutschland, Hansa, Hermann and Union.
A big THANK YOU to my second cousin, one time removed, Diane Wood, Wood Family Tree, Ancestry.com, 2015, for sharing the above information with me!!
Bremen/Bremerhaven/Lehe (Bremerhafen in German) Between 1850 and 1880 thirty-eight percent of the emigrant ships arriving at Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports of North America were from Bremen/Bremerhaven. It has been calculated that over the past two centuries more than 7 million people emigrated through Bremen and Bremerhaven… www.maggieblanck.com/Blanck/Bremen.html