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Note: N9 Variants of her family name include: Nepat, Niepoth, Nieboth, Nibbold, and others. Notes on her immigration, from Nancy Jansen Stendland: Balthausar Wilhelm Hedrich and his wife and son were planning to immigrate to the US. They are listed on ship "Ulysses" as paid passagners along with her parents and her sister on the ship "Ulysses" sailed from Bremen to Baltimore landing August 14 1834 two months after J. Adam Kress landed in Baltimore. The passage was paid and registered but Balthauser Hedrich died suddenly before the ship sailed on Jne 21 1834 in his village of Willofs, Vogelsbergkries, Hennen [sic], Germany. The new widow Maria Hedrich made the trip with her son, Jacob, age one and her parents Casper and Maria Neiboldt and her sister Margareth from Germany to Baltimore all listing their destination as going to Missouri. They met Johann Adam Kress possibly in Baltimore and went to Pennsylvannia where Kress had relative to marry. Their first child was born in Bedford County, PA. After arriving in Dubuque Jacob Hedrick went to live with his Neipoth (Niebboldt) grandparents and used the name Jacob Neiboldt until he was a young man when he took back his birth name of Hedrick, spelling it with a K at the end. Had 8 children by her second husband, Adam Cress.
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