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FROM ENGLAND



August 7, 1635 John Manning, age 20, aboard the Globe from London to Norfolk, Virginia
  10xGreat Grandfather in the Parker, West, Campbell, Creekmore, Batchelor, Manning line
   
c. 1636 John Yates and wife Joan, to Norfolk, Virginia
  10xGreat Grandparents in the Parker, West, Campbell, Creekmore, Ballentine, Yates line
   
1648 John Biggs, aboard the Increase, from Hampshire, Southampton, to Norfolk, Virginia
  10xGreat Grandfather in the Parker, West, Campbell, Creekmore, Batchelor, Biggs line
   
c. 1650 Edmund Creekmore of Norwich, Norfolk County, to Norfolk, Virginia
  8xGreat Grandfather in the Parker, West, Campbell, Creekmore line
   
bef 1652 George Ballentine (Vallentine), to Norfolk, Virginia
  9xGreat Grandparents in the Parker, West, Campbell, Creekmore, Ballentine line
   
1654 Jane Wood, who married Edmund Creekmore, aboard the ship Neptune to Norfolk, Virginia
  8xGreat Grandmother in the Parker, West, Campbell, Creekmore line
   
bef 1658 Richard Batchelor, to Norfolk, Virginia
  9xGreat Grandfather in the Parker, West, Campbell, Creekmore, Batchelor line
   

FROM ALSACE




30 Nov 1750 Hans Adam Biebel and his wife Marie Eva Müller from Goersdorf, Lower Rhine, aboard the ship Sandwich from Rotterdam to Philadelphia
  6xGreat Grandparents in the Parker, West, Criscillis, Bible (& Müller) line
   
1830 Joseph Casper and Elizabeth Roehrig and their family from Stundwiller, Lower Rhine
  3xGreat Grandparents in the Wernet, Casper (and Roehrig) line
   
12 Apr 1832 Jacob Brinkey (Jacques Bringia), a widower, and his 5 children from Wolschwiller, Upper Rhine, aboard the Ship Charles to Baltimore
  3xGreat Grandfather in the Wernet, Brinkey line
   

FROM GERMANY




1764/1765 Otto Rudolph Crecelius and his family from Reichelsheim in Hesse-Nassau aboard a ship from Amsterdam to Philadelphia
  5xGreat Grandfather in the Parker, West, Criscillis (Crecelius) line
   
bef 1766 Marie Elizabethe Diederle, who married Otto Rudolph Crecelius in Philadelphia in 1766
  5xGreat Grandmother in the Parker, West, Criscillis Diederle line
   
13 Oct 1817 Konrad Wernet, wife Luitgard Nopper and family from Schuttertal in the Black Forest in Baden, aboard the brig Bonifacius from Antwerp to Philadelphia
  3xGreat Grandparents in the Wernet (and Nopper) line
   
1832 Andreas Pfeffer, his wife Maria Magdalene Soell, and their children arrived in New York from Horb, Würtemburg
  3xGreat Grandparents in the Wernet, Brinkey, Pfeffer (and Sell) line
   

FROM IRELAND




1717 Adrian Anglin to Virginia
  6xGreat Grandfather in the Parker, Anglen line
   
1831/1834 John Conlin, wife Sarah McAllister, and their children sailed from Queenstown in County Cork.
  Great Great Grandparents in the Wernet, Conlin line
   
1829-1835 James Hagan and his brothers John, Patrick, and Charles from County Londonderry near Tobermore, Draperstown and Magherafelt, aboard the ship "Ausprey" ("Osprey?) from Moville to Philadelphia.
  Great Great Grandfather in the Wernet, Brinkey, Hagan line
   
1829/1830 Elizabeth Donnelly from Armagh, who later married James Hagan
  Great Great Grandmother in the Wernet, Brinkey, Hagan, Donnelly line
   
about 1850 Charles Hagan father of the Hagan brothers mentioned above, with his daughters Mary and Kate
  3xGreat Grandfather in the Wernet, Brinkey, Hagan line
   

What happened to our immigrants,
who came so far with so much hope?

They all struggled to make a good life in a new country,
but some suffered more than others.


Morris Brinkey, 11 years old when he came to America with his widowed father and four siblings, fought for the Union in the Civil War, was captured near the Cumberland Gap during the terrible winter of 1863-1864, and died in the infamous Andersonville prison.
   
A hotel fire killed Andreas Pfeffer's baby and destroyed all of the family's belongings as they waited to embark for America, and Andreas, devastated by grief and homesickness, died of a broken heart within a year.
   
Patrick Hagan was shipwrecked and drowned off Florida in the Seminole War.
   
Joseph Brinkey and his four oldest children died of typhoid within a month of each other. His two surviving sons died in the famous Johnstown Flood, which was the worst disaster in our nation's history up to that time.



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