This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fischer/Fisher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YaW.2ACIB/959 Message Board Post: Johannes Fischer who arrived from Bremen on the Napier, which landed at Baltimore in July of 1835, might be my great-great grandfather. If so he died, with his wife, of cholera, sometime between 1845 and 1855, leaving two young sons who were "bound out" to different families. My great-grandfather, Samuel Fisher, grew up near Lawrence, Kansas, but his birthstate is listed as Ohio. Johannes, who travelled with 10 other young Fischers, ranging in age from 5 (Konigunde), to 36 (Elizabeth), was headed for Ohio. Two questions then: Does anyone have information about this particular Johannes? Has anyone ever heard of "Praferaferaln"? This is the word which follows Place of Origin on the records of all the Fischers who sailed on the Napier.