The Caspar and Anna Tiedeken Family: Henry Ben, Ed, Fred, Conrad; Elizabeth Anna (Brueggemann) Tiedeken, Annie.
|--------Mencke Borchers TIEDEKEN (1731, Germany - 1812, Germany)
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|---------Borchert Menke ``Burchardus'' TIEDEKEN (1768, Germany - 1828, Germany)
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| |--------Angela Berens HÖLPER (1740, Germany - 1783, Germany)
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|------Bernardus Josephus ``Bernard'' TIEDEKEN (1807, Germany - 1876, Germany)
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| | |--------Joan NIEHAUS (Germany - 1795, Germany)
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| |---------Anna Margaretha NEHUS (1774, Germany - 1851, Germany)
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| |--------Maria Elisabeth BOLLINGERFEHR (1732, Germany - 1802, Germany)
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Caspar Swibertus TIEDEKEN (1843, Germany - 1890, Iowa)
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| |--------Henricus Bernardus HUISMAN (1741, Germany - )
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| |---------Caspar Hendrik HUISMAN (1781, Germany - 1853, Germany)
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| | |--------Adeleidis Maria WILLER (1739, Germany - )
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|------Maria Veronica HUISMANN (1806, Germany - 1869, Germany)
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| |--------Syvert Syverts BRUUNS (Germany - )
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|---------Thecla (Teelke) BRUNS (1771, Germany - 1820, Germany)
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|--------Trientje PETERS (1739, Germany - 1804, Germany)
The Fulda arrived in the New York harbor on Sunday, March 14, 1886. It had left Bremen March 3rd, with a stop in Southampton, England on March 6. After the harsh wintertime North Sea crossing, the passengers of the S.S. Fulda had some excitement awaiting them in the NY Harbor. The S.S. Oregon had been rammed before dawn by an unknown schooner near Fire Island and was sinking. The 896 passengers and crew of the Oregon had temporarily gotten onto rescue boats and they were loaded onto the already full Fulda when the Fulda arrived about noon. The Oregon sank by 1:40 in the afternoon. After onloading the Oregon passengers, the Fulda steamed on to Sandy Hook and dropped anchor at the bar at 6:25 p.m. At 1 o'clock in the morning of the 15th, the Fulda moved on up to the arrival Quarantine area, where she arrived at about 3:00 a.m. with her original load of passengers.
Caspar was greeted by cool March weather his first day in America -- fair and in the 40's. Over the weekend, the New York prizefighter Jack Dempsey had beaten George ``the Marine'' La Blanche in a clandestine (boxing was illegal then) match in the nearby suburb of Larchmont. Another celebrity of these days was the actress Sarah Bernhardt, who was getting bad reviews for her work in Shakespearean plays at the time. A copy of the New York Times cost only 2 cents.
On October 13 of the same year, Caspar's wife Anna and their children arrived in Baltimore aboard the S.S. Main. The Main, like the Fulda, was operated by the North German Lloyd line out of Bremen. Anna and the children had only two pieces of baggage for the whole family. They had apparently waited on Caspar to get his bearings in the new country and came over in the more favorable fall seas.
After arriving in the US, Caspar and family farmed in Butler County, Iowa, near the towns of Parkersburg and Aplington. Butler Couty, and Grundy County (to the south) contained one of the largest colonies of East Friesian emigrants in the US. This community is undoubtedly what led Caspar to settle in the area.
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is a map of northern Iowa
and southern Minnesota with county outlines. This map
shows the towns of Parkersburg, Iowa and Madelia, Minnesota, communities
near where the Caspar Tiedeken family settled.
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