The importance of the Ariosto

I have written about a vessel named the Ariosto before – you can click here to check out the post if you haven’t read it.

On the way to the new world – on board a German immigrant ship, woodcut, 1849

It was common in days past for people from the same village or city to travel together to settle in a new place. This is what proved to be the case for several families traveling from Germany to America on the Ariosto. A total of 37 people emigrated on this ship from the Darmstadt, Hesse region of Germany to the same community in Randolph and Suffield Townships, Portage County, Ohio. I could not locate a picture of the Ariosto, but the ullustration above shows us what life would look like during such an ocean crossing during the 1840’s.

While researching on Ancestry.com, I found a document showing that the Ariosto arrived in the port of New York on 16 Oct 1839 after departing from Antwerp, Belgium. The Ariosto‘s home port was Boston, Massachusetts and her captain was Daniel T. Lothrop.

Captain Lothrop’s family and business papers are now a part of the Baker Library Special Collections housed at the Harvard Business School, Harvard University Repository. The collections consists of shipping papers for the vessels Captain Lothrop sailed, including the Ship Ariosto.

This document listed all arriving passengers and crew members for the ship, Ariosto. On it were listed the following people:

LAST NAME	FIRST NAME	AGE	BORN	SEX	OCCUPATION
TRARES	Matthes	48	1791	Male	Farmer
	Elizabeth	44	1795	Female	Wife
	Agnes	16	1823	Female	Girl
	John	14	1825	Male	Child
	Barbra	11	1828	Female	Child
	Peter	9	1830	Male	Child
	Margaret	7	1832	Female	Child
	Sebastian	4	1835	Male	Child
KLEIN	Peter	49	1790	Male	Farmer
	Barbara	46	1793	Female	Wife
	Adam	21	1818	Male	Blacksmith
	John	19	1820	Male	Blacksmith
	John Adam	16	1823	Male	Boy
	Elizabeth	11	1828	Female	Child
	Peter	7	1832	Male	Child
MAY	George	43	1796	Male	Tailor
	Elizabeth	63	1776	Female	Wife
	Catharina	23	1816	Female	Girl
	George	2/12	1839	Male	Child
KLINE	Peter	29	1810	Male	Farmer
	Margaret	26	1813	Female	Wife
	Catharina	2	1837	Female	Child
	Martin	1/12	1839	Male	Child
MAY	George	43	1796	Male	Farmer
	Barbara	39	1800	Female	Wife
	Illegible	11	1828	Male	Child
	Barbra	4	1835	Female	Child
ANDES	Fred.	24	1815	Male	Shoemaker
	Margaret	25	1814	Female	Wife
	Elisabeth	2 /12	1839	Female	Child
MAY	John	48	1791	Male	Farmer
	Margaret**	46	1793	Female	Wife
	John	22	1817	Male	Farmer
	Anna Maria	19	1820	Female	Wife
	George	17	1822	Male	Boy
	Adam	10	1829	Male	Boy
	Nicholas	1 1/8	1838	Male	Boy

Table showing Andes, Klein/Kline, Knapp, May, and Trares ancestors arriving on the vessel Ariosta. Note that Margaret May ** died at sea 22 September 1839, before the ship arrived in New York from Antwerp.

During my next few posts I’ll talk about how these Ariosto passengers are related to the Knapp clan, and share what became of them after they reached America.

Image Information

Repository: Art Resource. Title: On the way to the new world – on board a German immigrant ship. Website: Immigrant Entreprenuership. Access Date: 12/29/22. Publisher: German Historical Institute. Original Published Date: 7/15/2011. Date of Last Update: 8/7/2018.

2 Responses to The importance of the Ariosto

Michael C. Wise says:

January 13, 2023 at 4:31 pm

Thank you for this very good information.

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Manfred Bräuer says:

December 30, 2022 at 3:21 pm

Greetings from Heppenheim, Hesse, Germany. As I read, Daniel. T. Lothrop signed the passengers list on 10 Oct 1839.

The published list should be corrected in the following entries:
a) May, Elizabeth, 63 y, occupation not wife but widow (she was the mother of George May, 43 y (from Ohio) and Catarina May, 23 y.
b) Kline, Catharina, daughter of Peter, age not 2 y but 2 1/2 y
c) May, George, son, illegitible: his name was Nikolaus
d) May, Nicholas, son of Johan May, age not 1 1/8 y but 1 1/2 y

From the same parish of St. Peter in Heppenheim were on the ship the families of Martin Musler (Mischler), Martin Bower (Bauer), Martin Grosman, Adam Honnel (Hohenadel), Gerhard Breier (Breuer/Bräuer, am. Brier, Briar, Bryer), Ignatz Kimmer (Kämmerer) and Peter Koob (with Barbara Koob, the later Saint Marianne Cope, 1 1/2 y). Peter Shefer (Schäfer) and Wilhelm Knoll travelled without family with the families from Heppenheim and the surrounding villages.

Adam Hohenadel and Gerhard Breier (both from Erbach near Heppenheim) also settled in Portage County. In the U.S. Census of 1840, Gerhard Breier is mentioned as Gahart Brier in Randolph Township. Before and after his family are listed the two Knapp families who emigrated in 1831 and 1832, John Kline, Joseph Schrader and his father-in-law Peter Andes. Adam Hohenadel as Honadel is also on the census list of Randolph Township. Gerhard Breiers widow later lived in Jasper County/IL.

Regards
Manfred Bräuer

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