Passport, German, issued to Christoph Knecht Dorn of Volksmannsreuth (Switz.) for passage to North America. Issued Apr. 5, 1908.

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Hoboken Historical Museum

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Name/Title

Passport, German, issued to Christoph Knecht Dorn of Volksmannsreuth (Switz.) for passage to North America. Issued Apr. 5, 1908.

Entry/Object ID

2014.021.0019

Scope and Content

German passport issued to Christoph (or Cristof) Knecht Dorn of Volksmannsreuth (Switzerland) for passage to North America (Nordamerica). Issued in Ebermannstadt, Bavaria (Germany) on April 5, 1904. Printed booklet with holographic entries and one inkstamp. 3-3/4" wide x 5-9/16" high. Embossed cover; 16 pages; only pages 1-3 have entries plus notes by owner on insides of covers. PDF on file. Dorn, (age 28 on passport and on manifest), arrived in the Port of New York on April 24, 1904. (Reference images of the manifest He was a second cabin (class) passenger on the S.S. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the North German Lloyd Line which departed from Bremen, Germany on April 12th. North German Lloyd used Hoboken as its American home port thus Dorn's arrival was at Hoboken. His destination was Plymouth, Wisconsin, as stated on the manifest and was going to meet his brother, John Dorn. Inside the back cover of the passport is another name: Mist Rowert (Robert?) Wenzel (Wengel?) of St. Paul, Minnesota. See notes. Page [1] Deutsches Reich. Konigreich Bayern. No. 3 des Registers. Reise-Pass giiltig bis zum 5 ten April 1908 [date that the passport would expire] fur den ledigen Dienst Knecht Christof Dorn aus Volksmannreuth ---- Inside the front cover are several lines in pencil noting dollar amounts and names. ---- immigration / emigration / ships / travel / passenger ship / ocean liners /

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2014.021

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Museum Collections.

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Date(s) of Creation

1904 - 1904

Archive Notes

Date(s): 1904

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Notes: Exhibition 2014: Hoboken, Ellis Island, and the Immigrant Experience, 1892-1924 ==== Notes by Christina Ziegler-McPherson. Finally. So, on FamilySearch: Christof Dorn: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JFBD-WM8 In searching for Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse's passenger list for April 20, 1904, I finally found: Christof Donn (it looks like Dorn to me on the sheet), age 28, laborer, appears to be going to brother in Plymouth, Wisconsin? Look at Ancestry.com for Christof Donn; he's #2 on the list. http://interactive.ancestry.com/7488/NYT715_448-0394/4031160843?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3findiv%3d1%26db%3dnypl%26rank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-d%26gsfn%3dChristof%26gsfn_x%3dXO%26gsln_x%3dXO%26msady%3d1904%26msady_x%3d1%26msadm_x%3d1%26msadd_x%3d1%26msapn__ftp%3dNew%2bYork%252c%2bUSA%26msapn%3d35%26msapn_PInfo%3d5-%257c0%257c1652393%257c0%257c2%257c3244%257c35%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c0%257c%26msepn__ftp%3dCherbourg%252c%2bManche%252c%2bBasse-Normandie%252c%2bFrance%26msepn%3d210429%26msepn_PInfo%3d8-%257c0%257c1652381%257c0%257c5087%257c0%257c30309%257c0%257c202061%257c210429%257c0%257c%26_F0006F0E%3dKaiser%2bWilhelm%2bder%2bGrosse%26dbOnly%3d_F0006F0E%257c_F0006F0E_x%26_F0006F0E_x%3d1%26_83004002%3dGerman%26uidh%3d9d7%26msadd%3d20%26msadm%3d4%26_83004003-n_xcl%3df%26pcat%3d40%26fh%3d0%26h%3d4031160843%26recoff%3d8%26ml_rpos%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord Even better, he sailed from Bremen on an NDL ship and so docked at Hoboken! The passport suggests that Dorn (I think his full name is Christoph Knecht Dorn) is from Volksmannsreuth (aus = from or of), which is in Switzerland. Ebermannstadt, the other town mentioned on the passport, is a town in Bavaria in the Forchheim area, between Bamberg and Nuremberg (Bayreuth is also in the neighborhood). Since the passport is from Bavaria, it seems that Ebermannstadt is where Dorn obtained the passport, and the stamp reinforces that. But the passenger manifest lists "Volksmanreuth" as his last place of residence. Perhaps he was living/working in Switzerland, passed through Bavaria on his way to Bremen (or Cherbourgh, conflicting records as to where he caught the ship) and applied for a passport there. It was issued April 5, 1904 and was good until April 5, 1908. It's interesting that he sailed on April 12, 1904, so very soon after he got the passport. I searched for "Rowert (Robert?) Wenzel" and "Wengel" in St. Paul, MN, and got nothing. Once I found "Christof Donn" I searched Ancestry and found nothing more than the passenger list. Widened the search to "Chris Donn" and still didn't find him. Status: OK Status By: dw Status Date: 2014-05-19