Greetings! After 3 years of precious little on my Bott Ancestors, yesterday I found the family leaving Hamburg in Feb. 1890. They left on the English steamship Lincoln, captained by Seaton. In addition to my gg grandparents, and two of the three children I expected to find, I found another child that no one alive remembers, and one that should have been there (I thought) not there yet. I also found what could very well be my ggg grandparents, and that has me very excited. I hope someone can help fit the missing pieces into the puzzle. I can't find a passenger list for the Lincoln in NY for March or April of 1890, so I don't know if they changed ships in Grimsby and/or Liverpool. I also don't know why it took them three years to get from NY to Globeville, where my ggrandmother was born. I don't know what happened to young Elisabeth, or where and when John (Johannes) might have been born. I also don't know what happened to the older couple traveling with them when they left Hamburg. Here's what I did find: A Johannes and Rosina BOTT, aged 59, and 58. Justus and Christina BOTT, both listed as 29, although most records show Christina should have been 34 at the time. Louise Bott, 6 Georg(e) Bott, 2 Elisabeth Bott, 10 months. All listed Norka, Russia as place of residence, and New York as destination. The ship's destination was listed as "Grimsby (Nordamerika via Liverpool)". The Hamburg list does not name the shipping company, but the agent was Pearson and Langnese, and the passage number was B1890.0192. The passenger numbers, from oldest to youngest goes from 99.0012 through 99.0018. Justus and Christina did end up in Globeville, Colorado by 1893, and Emma was born Apr. 1, 1893. Another daughter, Katherine, was born in Aug. 14, 1904. As I said before, my records show a birthdate of 1889 or 1890 for John, but there's no definite dates where he's concerned, and he never married, so there are no children that we know of. My ggrandmother Emma married August Henke in 1911, or thereabouts, and had 4 children, Karl Frederick, 1912 - 1914, my grandmother Augusta Katherine in 1914, Elsie Louise, (1916-1993)and Walter born in 1918. August and Emma both died of flu in 1920, just after the census was taken, and Katherine married a month later. Louise and her husband Charles Stock raised the children, and had none of their own. Katherine married a D.L. Harris, and I think they had children, but don't know for certain. George married a Novella (or Novello) Smith, and there's no record of children. John never married. Justus and Christina died within a week of one another in 1938. Christina's maiden name may have been Yost, and there's a good chance that she was born in Dec. of 1856. I have no idea what happened to Johannes and Rosina. Does this ship or these people sound familiar to anyone? I'd love to hear from you. Kate Reeves