The Bark Leontine, 1841
The Aufderhaar Family
This is a detail from the passenger list of the bark, Leontine which departed Bremen, Germany and arrived at Baltimore, Maryland on 28 June 1841. Highlighted here are the entries for the Aufderhaar family on lines 28-32, page 1.
| Name | Age | Occupation | Where from | Where bound | Bagage | ||
| Boxs | Bags | ||||||
| 28 | Herrman auf der Haar | 32 | farmer | Ladbergen | St. Louis | 3 | 2 |
| 29 | Elisabeth auf der Haar | 29 | his Wife | Ladbergen | St. Louis | ||
| 30 | Wilhelm auf der Haar | 8 | his Son | Ladbergen | St. Louis | ||
| 31 | Elisabeth auf der Haar | 4 | his Daughter | Ladbergen | St. Louis | ||
| 32 | Christine auf der Haar | 1½ | his Daughter | Ladbergen | St. Louis | ||
Source: Ancestry.com. Baltimore Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1820-1872 [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2004. Original data: Baltimore, Maryland. Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Baltimore, 1820-1891. Micropublication M255, rolls # 1-19. National Archives, Washington, D.C.
A possible alternative transcription of this family's surname as it appears on this list might be aaf der Haar. In the Ancestry.com index, as it appeared between January and June, 2006, the surname was transcribed as Aafderhaas.
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Aufderhaar (1809-1882), his wife, Anna Elisabeth (Fiegenbaum) Aufderhaar (1811-1884), and their children, Heinrich Wilhelm Aufderhaar (1832-1877), Marie Elisabeth Aufderhaar (1836- ? ) and Christine Elisabeth Aufderhaar (1839-1907) were not alone in their voyage to America on the Leontine.
The Aufderhaar's were part of a group of at least 13 members of an extended family that included two other families - the Fiegenbaums and the Bierbaums.
The Fiegenbaums were Anna Elisabeth's parents, Johann Heinrich Fiegenbaum (1788-1861 - at age 53) and Catharina Elisabeth (Hagen) Fiegenbaum (1786-1853) - at age 54), as well as two of her younger siblings: Christina Elisabeth Fiegenbaum (1819-1896) and Hermann Heinrich Fiegenbaum (1823-1898).
The Bierbaums were Anna Elisabeth's sister, Anna Christine Elsabein (Fiegenbaum) Bierbaum (1815-1894), her husband, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Bierbaum (1812-1872), their infant son, Heinrich Wilhelm Bierbaum (May 1840- ? ), and Sophia Bierbaum, Anna Christine's sister-in-law (age 18 according to the passenger list).
All three families left Ladbergen, Province of Westphalia, Kingdom of Prussia for a new life in the United States. They settled west of St. Louis, Missouri, in Warren County, among a growing community of newcomers from the same area of Germany.
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