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Note: According to his card at the Historical Society of York Count y, he was born in Membris, Bavaria. The same information is on his gra ve marker in the Catholic cemetery on Violet Hill, York, Pa. Mombris (o w ith an umlaut) is pronounced like Membris, and such a town is located in e xtreme northwestern Bavaria, about 30 km east of Frankfurt. He came to America in 1847 on the bark Flora. According to Bernhar dt Havighorst of Bremen, an expert on German emigrant ships, the Flora w as a Swedish vessel built in Gehle, Sweden in 1839. It was register ed in Bremen and possibly co-registered in Gehle, Sweden, by Elfbring Norm an and Company. Bremen was not its home port. Havighorst has little expe rience in Swedish ships and gives little information. According to him t he ship had a displacement of 289 BRT/RT (engl.). This probably translat es as 289 tons but I am not sure. These data are largely confirmed by Phi lip L. Budlong of the Mystic Seaport Museum. The vessel was a brig, and t hus had square sails on the two forward masts and fore and aft sails on t he after (mizzen) mast. Her master's name is hard to read in the origin al passenger list but may have been F. Meltopaeus. She carried 196 passen gers and had a crew of 15. She left Bremerhaven on April 20 and arriv ed in Baltimore on June 19. In the passenger list Anthony gave his a ge as 22 (he was 20), his profession as farmer, and his home town as Membr is. None of his family was with him. Not far ahead of him on the list th ere is a family also from Membris. This was Valentin Hubert, 38, his wif e, 36, and three children, aged 4 to 11. He declared his intention to naturalize on November 1, 1853 in Balti more and was naturalized in York on October 9, 1854. In the Directo ry of York for 1868-69, Antoine Mann, a carpenter, is listed at 442 Sou th George Street. I have not found any other record of him in York aga in until 1877 when he is listed as a carpenter in the Authentic General Di rectory of the Borroughs of York, etc., and again in the census of 1880, r esiding on South George Street. On p. 362 of the 1903(?) York Director y, Mary A. Mann (wid Anthony) is listed on Boundary Avenue. This is proba bly the widow of Anthony's oldest son, Anthony. On the same page are Do ra Mann (wid Anthony) and Dora Mann (wid Frank), both our people. I fou nd somewhere in Germans to America an Anton and Maria Mann. I do not kn ow who these people are. In St. Mary's Catholic Church on South George Street there is a lar ge stained glass window inscribed as a gift of Anthony and Dorothy Man I have not been able to find our Anthony in the census of 1850, 186 0, or 1870, although some of his children were born in York, Pennsylvani a, in that time period. Since he produced three children in York during t he Civil War, he probably spent the war there. His ancestors and his siblings were found in Mombris church recor ds by German researcher Sabine Schleichert.
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