Mennonite Immigrants to Canada
Departing from Hamburg, Germany:
1890-1898

Compiled by Richard D. Thiessen

The following list of Mennonite immigrants to Canada departing from the port of Hamburg, Germany between 1890 and 1898 is taken from the (Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg: State Archive site). As of March 2002 the site has a database of passengers who departed from Hamburg for the years 1890 through 1898. The database can be searched by surname and first name, and can be limited by year of birth and year of departure. To compile this list a series of searches was performed on surnames common amongst Mennonites from Russia. The results were limited to those whose destination was Canada, but also includes some who first sailed to the USA before entering Canada. The site plans to include departures from 1890 to 1914 in the initial stage before expanding it to include all years between 1850 and 1934.

The table includes the following information: date of departure, ship (further information is available for a fee from the originating site), passenger number, surname, first name, country of origin, approximate birth year (information is based on the age of the passenger), destination, whether or not the trip was a direct or indirect trip (many passengers travelled indirectly to Canada by sailing to Hull, England and then taking a train across England to Liverpool, England, where they boarded another ship to Canada), the GRANDMA number, and other cross-references if the individuals can not be located in GRANDMA (references beginning with the letter "S" refer to Sommerfelder church registers and "RGB" refers to the Reinlander Gemeinde Buch).