I found that a person who has been a character on a post in the past would be celebrating her 200th birthday today, so I am going to revisit her story. Since I wrote the story of Annae Schneider, I have now discovered another significant document that can be added to that tale.
I have now located the passenger list of the ship, Rudolph, that arrived in New Orleans on June 22, 1847. That passenger list includes the two names, Johann Poehner and Anne Schneider. That portion of the list is pictured here.
It was just one month later, on July 22, 1847. that Johann Poehner married Anne Schneider at Peace Lutheran Church in Friedenberg. It must have taken these two a bit of time to find a steamboat to take them to Perry County, so this couple did not waste much time to get married after they arrived in this area.
This is not the first time that such a couple has shown up on this blog. It is my understanding that it was quite an ordeal for a couple to get the government’s approval to get married in Germany. A bride and groom had to provide documentation for how they were going to be financially independent. They had to provide information about where they were going to live. And they had to pay a designated fee to the authorities before they could get married. Quite a few couples, especially ones who may have been planning to move to the United States, decided to book passage on a ship, make the journey to this country, and then get married soon after they got here. I know I have written at least one story about a couple that got married in Baltimore prior to settling in Perry County right after they got off their ship because there was a Lutheran church located there.
So, today we wish a special bicentennial birthday to Anne Schneider, who was born on January 18, 1824 in Germany.