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  1. Maria Eva Hirsch: Birth: 2 SEP 1811 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany. Death: 2 SEP 1811 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany

  2. Rosalia Hirsch: Birth: 18 OCT 1812 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany.

  3. Agnes (or Anna) Magdelena Hirsch: Birth: 21 JAN 1816 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany. Death: 11 DEC 1898 in Highland, Madison County, Illinois

  4. J Philip Hirsch: Birth: 28 NOV 1818 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany. Death: 10 SEP 1851

  5. Maria Johanna Hirsch: Birth: 20 DEC 1820 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany. Death: 4 DEC 1898

  6. Felix Hirsch: Birth: 20 NOV 1824 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany. Death: 25 JUN 1881 in McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon

  7. Gregor Hirsch: Birth: 12 MAR 1827 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany. Death: 8 JUL 1851

  8. Seraphine Hirsch: Birth: 1 SEP 1834 in Oestringen, Baden, Germany. Death: 17 DEC 1837


Notes
a. Note:   Settled in S.E. Madison County about 5 miles N.E. of Highland,Illinois. The OCEAN was a 3-masted, square-rigged ship, built byChristian Bergh, New York, in 1833, as the ORLEANS, for theHolmes Line of coastal packets between New York and New Orleans.599 tons; 127' 3" x 32' 6" x 16' 3" (length x beam x depth ofhold). She sailed in the Holmes line from 1833 to 1847, duringwhich time her passage from New York to New Orleans averaged17.1 days, her short passage being 11 days, her longest 25 days.On 30 October 1847, the OCEAN was purchased from Barrett &Sears, of New York, for $15,000, by the Hamburg shipowner RobertMiles Sloman, who renamed her HERSCHEL, and placed her in theNorth Atlantic trade, carring emigrants to New York or NewOrleans and returning to Europe with a cargo of tobacco orcotton. Master:1847-1852 - J. C. Wienholtz; 1852-1853 - J. H.Jacobs; 1853-1855 - J. E. Meier; 1855-1856 - O. P. Nielsen; 1856- P. Foppes; 1856-1859 - C. Hauschild. Voyages:1847/48 - fromNew York/New Orleans; 1848/49 - New York/intermediate ports/NewYork; 1850 - New York; 1850/51 - New York; 1851 - New York (2x); 1852 - New York; 1852 - Quebec; 1852/53 - New York; 1853 -New York; 1853/54 - New York/Charleston; 1854 - New York;1854/55 - New York; 1855 - New York; 1855/56 - New Orleans; 1856- Quebec/London; 1856/59 - New York/intermediate ports. She wassold in Surabaja, on Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), in1859, for 20,000 fl. Her later history and ultimate fate are notknown [Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule; TheNew York Sailing Packets to England, France, and the CottonPorts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1938), pp.292-293; Ernst Hieke, Rob. M.Sloman Jr., errichtet 1793,Veroffentlichungen der WirtschaftsgeschichtlichenForschungsstelle e.V., Hamburg, Band 30 (Hamburg: VerlagHanseatischer Merkur, 1968), p. 372; Walter Kresse, ed.,Seeschiffs-Verzeichnis der Hamburger Reedereien, 1824-1888,Mitteilungen aus dem Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, N. F.,Bd. 5. (Hamburg: Museum fur Hamburgische Geschichte, 1969), vol.2, p. 208]. [Posted to the Emigration-Ships Mailing list byMichael Palmer - 13 December 1997] 1850; living with son (PhilipHirsch) in Highland, Madison County, Illinois. Census enumerated27 Sep 1850. Listed as "John Hearsh", 66 years old, born Germanyin 1850 census. 1860; living in Carlyle (now Carlisle), ClintonCounty, Illinois. Census enumerated 27 Jun 1860. Listed as "JohnHirsch", widowed, 76 years old, born Germany in 1860 census.

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