Immigrant Ships
Transcribers Guild
Ship Pharsalia

DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI – PORT OF NEW ORLEANS

I, Chas. F. Winsor, Master or Commander of the ship Pharsalia, do solemnly, sincerely, and truly swear, that the within List, signed by me and now delivered to the Collector of this District, contains the names of all the Passengers, taken on board the said ship at the Port of Bremen or at any time since, and that all matters therein set forth, are, according to the best of my knowledge and belief, just and true. I do further swear, that two of the said Passengers have died on the Voyage. (signed) Chas. F. Winsor. Sworn before me, this 11th day of Novr. 1846 (no signature) Collector. 

List of all Passengers taken on board the ship Pharsalia whereof Chas. F. Winsor is Master, at the Port of Bremen and bound for New-Orleans.

Columns represent: name, age, sex, occupation, country to which they belong, deaths. Country of which they intend to become inhabitants was listed as U. States for all passengers. 

[Ed. Excerpted from complete listing. Ernst Hch. is a perfect match. Note that the "7" listed below in Florentine's age could also be a "9" based on how a 9 is formed with downstokes and lighter upstrokes, along with fading of the ink on upstrokes. If we presume the transcriber misread the "9" as "7" then the age fits perfectly with known birth date of Florentine, Ernst's wife in the St. Louis, MO Prasse Family Group Genealogy. Then we would have to shuffle a couple of names around to get an exact match. Florentine would have to be Ernst's first wife rather than his third. The names Florentine / Florentina / Florence / Flora recur frequently in the lineage of the children listed below. Louise matches with Louisa; Cath. below matches with Caroline (a later child is listed as Catherine in the genealogy); John Hch. matches Henry; Herman matches with Frederick in the genealogy (maybe middle name); and Carl Friedr. matches with Carl Heinrich in genealogy -- so it's not much of a stretch to presume a match.  The date of immigration matches with the date that had been previously presumed by the family. It is probably too close a match to be ruled out as purely coincidental.]

Together Two hundred and forty seven Souls
Bremen 24th September 1846
(signed) C. F. Winsor

Transcriber's Notes:

National Archives and Records Administration, Film M259, Reel 25.
Transcribed by Mary Koelzer for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
22 March 1999

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