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The Württemberg, Germany Emigration Index

The Württemberg, Germany Emigration Index was extracted from the original emigration records and translated into English. It contains the names of approximately 60,000 persons who made application at Württemberg to leave Germany from the late eighteenth century to 1900. The information supplied on each person includes: name, date and place of birth, residence at time of application, and application date.

The Wüttemberg Emigration Index is an eight volume work that represents the thousands of German and Prussian immigrants to the United States that made application to emigrate at Württemberg, Germany. This collection, filmed at Ludwigsburg, contains the names of approximately 60,000 persons who made application to leave Germany from the late eighteenth century to 1900. The information supplied on each person includes: name, date and place of birth, residence at time of application and application date, and microfilm number.
The Württemberg emigration records are a unique collection of papers and documents on applicants who filed for permission to emigrate from Germany during the nineteenth century. These records are not alphabetized nor are the pages numbered, which makes a search through them complicated and time consuming. In many cases, as many as eight pages were written on one person, including a birth certificate or a family record, military release, and renunciation of citizenship rights. Often the handwriting in these documents is almost indecipherable for even an experienced German researcher. It is almost impossible for a layman to search through these records successfully.

Emigrants leaving without permission are, of course, not listed at the time of emigration. Yet many of these emigrants, later in life, after having arrived in the land of their destination, sent word back to the Württemberg state and town officials renouncing their citizenship rights. Such repudiation is also documented in the Württemberg emigration records.
The date of application for emigration should not be assumed to be the date of emigration. In several cases, emigration was not granted until some time later, or the emigrant had already left secretly before that date.
Our three Rothermel brothers so far have not been found on the index - more research to be carried out. They did however send word back about Frederick's and John George Michael's deaths which are recorded in the local records.

The Star Inn no 11 High Street - Butchers shop no 12 ( possibly shown next door)

John G Rothermel came to England with his two brothers c. 1875 and settled in Wellingborough Northants. It is said the brothers may have walked to Bremen from Hörlebach and caught the ship to Hull.
The three brothers ran a butchers shop together in the High Street John G married Ellen Pendred the innkeeper's daughter from next door. Warren Pendred ran the Star Inn. Naomi Rothermel (Shaw) his sister in law was a witness at their wedding.
In the 1876 Directory Warren Pendred was listed as the Publican of the Star Inn. A Mrs Pendred was listed as a Beer Retailer in Wood Street Wellingborough.
Frederick the youngest brother died in 1878 of Peritonitis. The brothers must have been in contact with their relatives in Hörlebach at this time as Frederick's death was recorded in the German records.
In 1898 Warren Pendred was no longer running the Star Inn but appears to have moved to the White Horse in Pebble Lane.

Eldest brother John George Michael died in 1899 of cirrhosis of the liver, on the 1891 Census widow Naomi was running the shop with Fritz her eldest son as manager.
In Kelly's 1890 trade directory John G jnr was a butcher in Irthlingborough
A baby boy was born to John G and Ellen, Albert George Warren Rothermel in 1893 but died early in 1894..
John G and Ellen and their two surviving children Fritz Pendred and Regina were staying with Elizabeth Rainey just around the corner in Wellingborough in 1891
In the 1906 Kelly's trade directory the Rothermels (Noami and Fritz M) were no longer listed as running a butchers shop in Wellingborough
In the 1910 Directory Thomas Warren Pendred was listed as a Beer Retailer 153 Knox Road.

1911 CENSUS

John George Rothermel 56 Butcher
Ellen 45 married 25 years
Fritz Pendred 21 Butcher
Harry Pendred Boarder Butcher

Living 82 Wilford Road Nottingham

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