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I'm looking for my great-granduncle Mathias Schmidt, born at 25.09.1842 in Niedersaubach, formerly a village in the Prussian Rhine-Province to west of Palatinate near the French border, today a district of the town Lebach (www.lebach.de) in the smallest federal state of Germany, named Saarland (www.saarland.de).
Mathias Schmidt emigrated at 1881 to the States. In the emigration book from Mergen, Josef: "Die Auswanderung aus den ehemals preußischen Teilen des Saarlandes im 19. Jahrhundert, Saarbrücken 1973" is indicated, that he left his "Heimat" to call on an aunt who was yet emigrated to the States to find a better fortune.
The "Deutsche Auswanderer-Datenbank" of the University of Bremen has found him on a waybill: he emigrated via Antwerpen (Belgium) on the ship "Belgenland" to Philadelphia, where he arrived at 24.02.1881.
Our family legend conveys that he contacted his German relatives in Niedersaubach shortly before the breakout of WWI. But by the disorders of WWI the contact was lost forever.
He shouldn't have got any kids. In the letter he sent was a photograph of him that shows him as a prosperous man decored with American medals (this photo exists yet). The photo was taken from a photographer named U.E. Wolcott, Richard's Block, Escanaba, Michigan.
His parents who died in Germany were:
Jacob Schmitt (* 03.02.1803, + unknown) and Margaretha Schäfer (* 08.04.1798, + 18.05.1851). You see, that the spelling of Schmidt changed in the registration of churchly and civil office in the course of time.
The paternal grand-parents of Mathias were called Peter Schmit (1758 - 1813) and Maria Schmit (1761 - 1831), the maternal ones Johann Schäfer (1773 - ?) and Margaretha Schmitt (1767 - ?).
My question: Can you help me to find his trace in his new "Heimat", where he believed to find a better fortune than in our Old Germany?
Thank you very much!
Lothar Schmidt
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