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Passenger List Margit Jacoby Graf Waldersee New York 1914

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Details

Record type: Immigration and Naturalization Records
Source: FamilySearch "New York, Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1925" (collection 1368704), search Margit Jakab/Jakobi and variants, born 1887–1891 (115 hits; first page of 3 read); records 1:1:JJQ1-P4S (Margit Jacoby, 6 March 1914) and 1:1:JJ56-8WL (Margit Jakobi, 7 May 1912); images 195 and 196 of "Passenger and crew lists: New York City, Immigration Records, Mar 6, 1914" (3:1:3Q9M-C9T6-297Z and 3:1:3Q9M-C9T6-294C), SS \Graf Waldersee\, sailing from Cuxhaven 19 Feb 1914, list 4, Third Cabin (left page) and steerage destination page (right page, stamped 99). Filters recorded: given name Margit, surname Jakab (fuzzy), birth 1887–1891, Ellis Island collection only; the combined immigration-date filter is not accepted by the site.
Language: English, with Hungarian names
Result: found (a candidate that fits on five points).

Transcript and translation

Uncertain readings are marked [?] or set in brackets; words that could not be read are marked as such. Each transcript is shown as written, with its transcriber’s notes.

The record

Conventions: [ ] editorial addition; [?] uncertain reading; […] illegible; [sic] as written.*

Transcription

Left page (image 195), line 12: "Jakoby [or Jakoly]" "Margit", 25, "f", "s", "homemaid"; nationality "Hungary", race "Magyar", last residence "Hungary, Budapest"; nearest relative in the home country "father: Fülöp Jacoby, Budapest" [the surname's last letters are doubtful]. Right page (image 196), line 12: final destination "N.Y. [New York]"; ticket/passage lines "[?]"; relative or friend in the United States: "brother-in-law: Michal Rüter [Riter, Reiter?]. New-York, N.Y. 333 E 95 St."; height 5 ft 6; hair brown, eyes brown; place of birth "Hungary, Perjamos". The same page shows the line 13 passenger (Franz Keimel? of Neuhaus) with a St. Louis mother, which is not hers.

Translation

A 25-year-old single housemaid named Margit Jakoby/Jacoby, born at Perjamos in Hungary, last living at Budapest, daughter of Fülöp (the Hungarian form of Philipp) Jacoby of Budapest, arrived at New York on 6 March 1914 on the \Graf Waldersee\, going to her brother-in-law Michael Reiter at 333 East 95th Street, New York City.

Notes

Five points agree: age 25 (born 6 July 1889 makes her 24 in March 1914, a one-year difference of the kind manifests carry); born "Perjamos" on the image; father's given name Fülöp = Philipp (Philipp Jakobi, 1867–1929); a brother-in-law Michael Reiter (her sister Katharina married Michael Reitter, Chapter 5); arrival in March 1914 falls before the 16 July 1914 Bucks County license. Not PROVEN: the father's surname and the brother-in-law's surname are read with doubt, and the manifest does not mention Bucks County or Nicholas.

Conflicts noted: (1) Chapter 5 [7]: born at Perjamosch on 6 July 1889 = 24 years 8 months on 6 March 1914; the manifest says 25. (2) Chapter 5 and the Prior-Research-Combined line "arrival 1913 or 1914 (census)": the manifest dates it 6 March 1914, which fits the upper end. (3) Race "Magyar" and residence "Budapest" against a Danube-Swabian family of Perjamosch (Chapter 5 [7]): the manifest's race column and residence are the clerk's; birth at Perjamos is the same village. (4) The other candidate, Margit Jakobi of 7 May 1912 (born Kleinbetschkerek, married, age 24, with a brother-in-law Mathias Ehardt), is a different woman: excluded on birthplace and marital status.