Perhaps that is why my ggrandparents and children left RH Prussia in 1857!! Do you know where yours sailed from? I have been trying to find the ship my TURBES family sailed on and from what port. Joan Diana Meyer wrote: > Angie, My great grandfather had to leave Germany in 1857 at the age of 15 > or he would have been conscripted into the army. He was not a peasant > either, his father > was a doctor in Trier, Ludwig Von Meyer. So it may have been more common > then you think!