Charles and Elizabeth OLDENBURG

Charles "Carl" OLDENBURG was born 15 Apr 1828 in Germany. While, I don't have his immigration year, I know that he was naturalized between 1853 and 1857.

Elizabeth "Eliza" was born 31 Dec 1830. Her maiden name was possibly DRAEGER.

I suspect that Carl and Eliza were married about 1851 in Germany and they  had 7 children that I know of. Christine born about 1853 in Canada West (according to Census records), Charles William "Carl" born in June 1858 in Minnesota, Maria born 25 Sep 1860 in Minnesota, William born Apr 1862 in Minnesota, Elizabeth "Eliza" and Anna born about 1864 in Minnesota, and Johanna born 17 Aug 1871 in Belle Plaine, Scott cty, MN. Johanna's birth record in the Minnesota, Births and Christenings, 1840-1980 database on FamilySearch.org has her name as Hannah, although she's called John on her first census record. I suspect that all of the children born in Minnesota were born in Scott county in the Belle Plaine area.

Carl died 2 Nov 1911 in Minnesota and Eliza died 23 Sep 1904 also in Minnesota. The couple were buried at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Scott county, Minnesota.

I have the family on the following censuses:

• 1857 MN Territorial Census in Jordan, Scott county
• 1860 US Census in Belle Plaine, Scott county, Minnesota
• 1870 US Census in Belle Plaine
• 1875 MN Census in Blakely township, Scott county, Minnesota
• 1880 US Census in Blakely township
• 1885 MN Census in Blakely township
• 1900 US Census in Blakely township

I also have the patent for land Carl bought in Blakely township in 1864 as a PDF that I'm willing to share.

Pagel Immigration

I just today found the passenger list for my ggg grandma and grandpa Pagel (and my gg grandpa Pagel). They left Germany for England (I don't know the details on this part of their voyage) and, from Liverpool, sailed to New York on the SS Minnesota. They arrived at the port of New York on 15 April 1873. They then went to Wisconsin and settled in Marathon county near Wausau. Their son, my gg grandpa Carl "Henry" PAGEL, eventually went to Minnesota and settled in the area of McLeod, Renville, and Sibley counties. The family is on the second page of the ship's manifest.

Page 1

Page 2, The family is on the bottom half of the page

It shows the parents (Johann "Carl" and Dorothea "Fredericke" PAGEL) as 42 and 38 respectfully with Carl's occupation listed as "farmer." The children are listed in the manifest as John 19 (Johann), Augte 16 (August)1, Fernd? 14 (Carl "Fred")2, Carl 103, Augte 7 (Augusta), and Carl 3 (Carl "Henry").

Here is the link to the first page of the manifest at archives.org. From there, you can page through the rest of the manifest if you choose to.

1 For some reason August is listed as female. Maybe with all the kids the person writing the list got confused. It's also possible that August came over on his own and had a twin sister named Augusta I don't now about that came over with the rest of the family. That would also explain why the occupation is listed as "spinster."

2 I think they were trying to go for Friedrich here.

3 This may be a child I wasn't aware of, or could be Johann "Herman", whom I have as 8 at the time, but either this or the census records I got his age from could be a little off. I only have 1 middle name for him, while all his siblings have 2.