>This is my first posting to this list, although I have followed it for a >while. My great grandmother, Elisabeth Meyer*, came to the U.S. at the >age of twelve in 1844. I believe she came with Bartold Meyer (age 49), >Elisabeth (age 51), Anna (age 18), *Elisabeth (age 12) and Barbara (age 8). > The records in the National Archives noted that there were notations > on the back of both Elisabeth's cards, but they weren't > photographed. These were from the ship list of the Bark Eliza Thornton, > Hamburg to New York City, arriving on >24 September 1844. They were listed as from Bayern. > The church records for Elisabeth's marriage stated that she was from > Rheinbayern and that her father's name was >Nicolaus. The 1855 census states that she came to Syracuse, NY in 1852 >with her brother Charles, who would have been about 14 then. I never >found a trace of Bartold again, and the older Elisabeth seems to appear in >the records of Syracuse only in the 1860's. I found a marriage at www.familysearch.org for a Bartholomaeum Meyer and an Elisabetham Buchler on 7 Jan 1817 at the Catholic Church in Annweiler, Pfalz, Bayern (which is what would be the Rheinbayern or the Rheinland-Pfalz which used to be part of Bavaria). You might try ordering the church records from that town to see if there are baptisms for the children listed on the ship's list--they're filmed by the LDS and available for rental at your local Family History Center. Pam pamw2@fuse.net http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Woods/6771/