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Frederick Wilhelm Serbe (b. October 15, 1850, d. November 06, 1918)

Frederick Wilhelm Serbe was born October 15, 1850 in gu FurssAmburg Berlin, Prussia, and died November 06, 1918 in Baltimore. He married Johanna Louisa Mahlke on December 29, 1873.

Notes for Frederick Wilhelm Serbe:
1110 SARGEANT ST R080 12X130
BALTIMORE 21223-3628
This Property was built in 1900. The house has 960 enclosed SF.
WARD: 21 SEC: 03 BLOCK: 0769 LOT: 006

[Broderbund Family Archive #356, Ed. 1, Germans to America, 1875-1888, Date of Import: Dec 23, 1999, Internal Ref. #1.356.1.51562.0]

Passenger's Name: Wilhl. Serbe
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Occupation: Farmer
Last Residence: Prussia

Date of Arrival: Apr. 12, 1884
Final Destination: USA
Ship's Name: Lessing
Manifest ID Number: 37702
Port of Embarkation: Hamburg & Havre

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LESSING
The steamship LESSING was built by A. Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, for the Adler (Eagle) Line, and launched on 29 February 1874. 3,496 tons; 114,32 x 12,20 meters (375.1 x 40 feet, length x beam); straight bow, 1 funnel, 2 masts; iron construction, screw propulsion, service speed 13 knots; passenger accommodation: 90 1st-, 100 2nd-, and 800 steerage-class. 28 May 1874, maiden voyage, Hamburg-New York. 4 May 1875, last voyage, Hamburg-Plymouth-Cherbourg-Hamburg (last voyage of the Adler Line). 1875, purchased by Hamburg American Line. 1 March 1876, first voyage, Hamburg-Havre-New York. 1882, rebuilt; 2 funnels. 22 April 1888, last voyage, Hamburg-Havre-New York. 1888, became NERTHE (Messageries Maritimes). 1897, scrapped at Marseilles [Noel Reginald Pixell Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger Services Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel Islands: Brookside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 392. Pictured in Michael J. Anuta, Ships of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our Ancestors, 1983), p. 174, courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem, MA 01970.

The steamship LESSING, Captain Voss, made its regular call at Havre, from which it sailed for New York on 19 November 1881. The North Atlantic was pounded by a series of hurricanes in November 1881, which severely damaged many vessels. In one of these hurricanes, on 23 November, in lon. 21 W, the LESSING suffered severe damage, inter alia breaking her rudder head in two places. The crew used steel cables to steady the rudder, and set a course for Plymouth, Cornwall, where she arrived, under tow, on 29 November; one of her quartermasters was severely injured and expected to die. The cargo and steerage passengers remained in Plymouth until transferred to the steamship RHENANIA, Captain Barends, which sailed from Hamburg on 5 December, and made a special call at Plymouth on 11 December. The RHENANIA, carrying the steerage passengers from the LESSING, reached New York on 25 December 1881; you will find the passenger manifest for this voyage in National Archives Microfilm Publication M237, roll 445, a copy of which you can borrow through AGLL, any LDS (Mormon) Family History Center (Family History Library microfilm #1027015), or Interlibrary Loan. The LESSING underwent essential repairs at Plymouth and then returned to Hamburg, where she was rebuilt in 1882. {Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 14 November 1997]

More About Frederick Wilhelm Serbe:
Age at Arrival: 33.¹³⁵
Burial: Unknown, Western Cemetery.
Date of Arrival: April 12, 1884¹³⁵
Final Destination: USA.¹³⁵
Immigration: Abt. 1884
Last Residence: Prussia.¹³⁵
Manifest ID Number: 37702.¹³⁵
Naturalization: 1887, (1910 Census).
Occupation: Piano Maker.
Occupation at Arrival: Farmer.¹³⁵
Port of Embarkation: Hamburg & Havre.¹³⁵
Ship's Name: Lessing.¹³⁵

More About Frederick Wilhelm Serbe and Johanna Louisa Mahlke:
Marriage: December 29, 1873

Children of Frederick Wilhelm Serbe and Johanna Louisa Mahlke are:

Amalie Thersa Anna Serbe, b. October 18, 1874, Berlin, d. September 11, 1952.
Karl Wilhelm Serbe, b. December 28, 1875, Berlin, d. February 06, 1876.
Sophie Louise Serbe, b. November 24, 1876, Berlin, Germany, d. August 23, 1968.
+Johann Max Serbe, b. September 24, 1878, Berlin, Germany, d. November 19, 1953.
Heinrich Otto Serbe, b. June 08, 1881, Berlin, Germany, d. July 16, 1958.
Margarethe Emma Serbe, b. February 03, 1883, Berlin, d. March 03, 1956.
+Clara Ida Serbe, b. February 27, 1885, Maryland^{136, 137}, d. February 06, 1978, Baltimore¹³⁸.
Hugo Paul Serbe, b. November 18, 1886, Maryland, d. 1909, Maryland.
+George Charles Serbe, b. May 06, 1889, Maryland, d. August 15, 1968.
Helen Bertha Serbe, b. February 22, 1891, d. July 04, 1898.
Elsie Gertrude Serbe, b. November 16, 1894, Baltimore¹³⁹, d. September 20, 1991, Hagerstown, Maryland^{139, 140}.

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