PrinzAlbert

The Sailing Vessel Prinz Albert

arrived in New York from Hamburg

December 29, 1871

 

Castle Garden was built as a defense against the invasion

of Manhattan before the War of 1812. It was here that the

Bredes and many other 19th century immigrants first set foot on U. S.

soil. The picture will lead you to more information about this

immigrant station, in what is now Battery Park.

As an immigration area, Castle Garden preceded Ellis Island.

 

Wilhelm Brede, his wife Sophie (Krueger), and their sons, Wilhelm, Friederick, and Carl, left for the United States just as the German Empire united, in 1871. Wilhelm's sister Marie Brede Giencke would follow the next year about the ship Hammonia, with her husband and another Brede, Dorothea, probably a sister.

 The burial record of Carl Brede from 1889 shows he was born in "Malow" in 1866; he is listed as four years old in the 1871 ship's list of the Prinz Albert. Hamburg ship records do list Malow, in Mecklenburg, as the home of the emigrant Brede family in 1871. Malow is near Parchim in Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

The woodland of Mecklenburg - Schwerin, near Malow, April 2000

A record of the Ev. Lutheran Church of Marnitz, Mecklenburg-Schwerin shows that Marie Louis Christiane Brede (later Giencke) was born in Malow on May 24, 1839, daughter of Carl Friedrich Brede and Wilhelmine Johanna Friederike Eredia. Godparents for Marie Brede were Marie Hintzpeter, the wife of a day-laborer; the girl Louise Eradia; and the girl Christine Rusch.

Sophie Krueger Brede was 37 when she arrived in New York. Besides her husband and sons, she was accompanied by her mother. Elisabeth Kroeger gave her age as 59 aboard the Prinz Albert. It is likely, however, that she is the "Elise Krueger" who died in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, a few years later; this Elise was born in 1799. Along with Elisabeth Kroeger, the Brede family traveled with 26-year-old Johanna Peters on board the Prinz Albert. The Elise Kroeger who died in Milwaukee County in 1879 had the maiden name of Peters.

 

 

Wilhelm and Sophie Kroeger Brede

Buried at Oak Hill Cemetery, Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

"I have run the race; I have fought the fight; I have kept the faith."

--inscriptions in German on their tombstones

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