Notizen zu dieser Person
19.07.1871 über Hamburg.
Cause of Death: Stroke
Born in Camitz Vorpommern Germany
6th Child of Johann and Maria Schütt
In the Navy around 1864.
Moved to Rostock on 3/1/1867 according to passport records.
Found him in the Bürgerbuch of Rostoc k.
Listed as Joachim Heinrich Helmuth Schütt. This record showed his birth
town as Camitz Pommern.
Married 10 May 1867 in Rostock.
Passport was issued on 2/3/1871 in Rostock.
Went from Rostock to Kiel then on to Hamburg.
Left H amburg on 19 July 1871.
Arrived in the USA in New Yorkon the Holsatia from Ha mburg.
Landed on 8/2/1871.
Came to Chicago and lived at 515 N. Halstead Ave.
Son William born in Chicago and baptized at EvangelicalLutheran Zion
Church
Moved to Northfield about 1873.
Became a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church.
Bought 2 lots on Pratt court in 1888.
Moved to Evanston off the farm in 1891 .
Built 2 houses on Pratt Court one at 2018 and one at 2020.
Lived next door to Fred Schuett and two doors from John Schuett.
These werehis nephews.
Memb er of Bethlehem Lutheran Church.
Died of a stroke in 1904 and is buried at St. Paul's cemetery.
Description of the Ship on which Henry andfamily emigrated.
HOLSATIA
The HOLSATIA was built by Caird & Co, Greenock, for the Hamburg Am erican
Line, and was launched on 9 March 1868. 3,134 tons; 103,60 x 12,20 met ers
(339.9 x 40 feet, length x beam); straight bow, 1 funnel, 2masts; iron
construction, screw propulsion, service speed 12 knots; passenger
accommodat ion for 90 in 1st class, 130 in 2nd class, and 520 in steerage.
Captains: N. Trautmann, 1868; H. Ehlers, 1868-1870; J. E. Meier,
1870-1872; B. H. A. Baren ds, 1872-1875; H. F. Schwensen, 1878; C. L.
Brandt, 1878. 10 June 1868, maide n voyage, Hamburg-Southampton-New York.
14 April 1875, last voyage, Hamburg - Havre - New York; laid up. 1877,
compound engines. 30 January 1878, resumed Hamburg-Havre-New York
service. 20 March 1878, last voyage, Hamburg-Havre-New York (2 roundtrip
voyages). 1878, acquired by the Russian Volunteer Fleet and renamed
ROSSIJA. 1894, DNESTR (Russian navy). 1910, BLOKSHIF No 5 (hulk). O ctober
1916, scuttled at Trebizond, in the Black Sea [ Noel Reginald Pixell
Bonsor, North Atlantic Seaway; An Illustrated History of the Passenger
Servi ces Linking the Old World with the New (2nd ed.; Jersey, Channel
Islands: Bro okside Publications), vol. 1 (1975), p. 389]. Pictured in
Michael J. Anuta, S hips of Our Ancestors (Menominee, MI: Ships of Our
Ancestors, 1983), p. 127, courtesyof the Peabody Essex Museum, East
India Square, Salem, MA 01970. For additional information on the
HOLSATIA, see Arnold Kludas and Herbert Bischo ff, Die Schiffe der
Hamburg-Amerika-Linie, Bd. 1. 1847-1906 (Herford: Koehler , 1979). [Posted
to the Emigration-ships Mailing List by Michael Palmer - 13 December
1997]
Klaus Helmut
Gevert
