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Good Evening Ursula
My great-great-great-grandfather Johannes Jakob Kamb(1789-1847) was
married twice and had fourteen(14) children. First he was married to Anna
Barbara Geimer(1788-1829) and they had nine(9) children and second he was
married to Maria Eva Lang(1803-1854) and they had five(5) children.
Katharina Kamb(1831-1911)(my great-great-grandmother) and her brother
Philipp Kamb(1835-1914)(children of Johannes Jakob Kamb and Maria Eva
Lang) and their half-sister Margaretha Kamb Kolb(1822-1854)(daughter of
Johannes Jakob Kamb and Maria Barbara Geimer)and her husband Josef Kolb
and their children and several members of the Kolb Family went by horse
and wagon from Schifferstadt, Bayern to Le Harve, France where they sold
their horse and wagon and departed on the SS Edgar P Stringer from Le
Harve, France on September 6, 1854 and arrived in New York, New York on
October 26, 1854.
The manifest of the Edgar P. Stringer shows ten(10) Kolbs, two(2) Kambs(my
great-great-grandmother Katharina Kamb(1831-1911) and her brother Philipp
Kamb(1835-1914)), one(1) Gebhart and three(3) Kochs and two(2) Kuhns that
I believe were travelling with them. The Kochs and the Kuhns appear in
church records in Rochester, Monroe, New York. They may have been another
two or three infants travelling with them that were not on the manifest.
I have read that infants were not always listed on ship manifests.
Edgar P. Stringer Manifest
LeHarve, France(06SEP1854) - New York, New York(26OCT1854)
Kolb Joseph 30
Margaretha 31
Elizabeth 3
Martin 2
Kamb Catherine 20
Philipp 17
Koch Franz 28
Anna Maria 27
Gertrude 2
Kuhn Christoph 25
Anna Marie 22
Kolb Georg 38
Elizabeth 36
Marie 7
Philipp 5
Georg 3
Franzika 2
Gebhart Franz 57
Margaretha Kamb Kolb(1822-1854) and an infant child Elizabeth
Kolb(1849-1854) appear to have died of cholera on the Edgar P. Stringer
between September 6, 1854 and October 26, 1854. Margaretha Kamb Kolb and
Elizabeth Kolb are listed on the ship manifest as having boarded the Edgar
P. Stringer on September 6, 1854 in LeHarve, France but I show no record
of either of them in the United States. The New York Herald reported that
twenty-three(23) people died from cholera on the SS Edgar P Stringer
during its voyage from Le Harve, France to New York, New York. We assume
that Margaretha Kamb Kolb and an infant child Elizabeth Kolb died of
cholera and were buried at sea since her husband Josef Kolb married Salome
Bauer(1829-1891) on 16JAN1855 at Saint Joseph's Church in Rochester,
Monroe, New York two and half months after he arrived in the United
States.
DEATHS AT SEA BY CHOLERA
The ship Edgar P. Stringer, arrived yesterday
from Havre, reports having twenty-three deaths on
the passage from cholera. The Booth Carolina, also
arrived here from Rotterdam, had fifty deaths on
the voyage.
New York Herald Friday, October 27, 1854
Anna Maria Kamb(1844-1914)(daughter of Johannes Jakob Kamb and Maria Eva
Lang) emigrated to the United States about 1865/1866, settled in
Rochester, New York, married Johann Beck and had seven children. The
other two children of Johannes Jakob Kamb and Maria Eva Lang, Nikolaus
Kamb(1832-1870) and Peter Kamb(1837-1901) married and raised their
families in Germany.
I was able to trace the Kamb Family back to my eighth great-grandfather
Simon Kamb(1657-1695) of Horcheim bei Koblenz, Germany with the help of
Winfried Seelinger(Genealogist) and Johann Benedom(Schifferstadt City
Archivist and Genealogist). I am sure that you are familiar with Familien
und Einwohner in Schifferstadt by Johann Benedom. I spent a week in
Schifferstadt in July 2014 researching the Kamb Family and meeting many
Kamb cousins. I am related to many families in Schifferstadt including
those with the surnames of Kamb, Kolb, Lang, Leckinger, Mattern, Mayer,
Sattel, Seelinger, Teutsch and Wilhelm.
You might be interested in looking at German Genealogy Group's German
Emigration Database where I found information about several of my
ancestors from Bayern and Pfalz.
German Genealogy Group's German Emigration Database
https://www.germangenealogygroup.com/records-search/german_emigrants.php
I was born and raised in Rochester, New York and lived in Pittsford, New
York for twenty-seven years before retiring and moving to Scottsdale,
Arizona in 2006. I have been researching my family genealogy off and on
for nearly forty years but I have been able to devote more time to it
since I retired. I have made two trips to Germany to research my German
ancestors--the first in 2012 to Baden-Wuerttemburg and Hessen and the
second in 2014 to Rhineland-Palatinate and Hessen.
Please feel free to contact me should you have any questions or should you
need any additional information about the Kamb Family.
Best regards,
Scott A. La Bounty
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1789 - 1847 (58 years)
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