So, what happened after 1911? In the records I could find, the family emerges long after. On the 20th January 1923, a man named James T. Engellenner marries in Liverpool in England. His wife is May Ellen Moran from Ireland. It turns out that James probably has stayed in Ireland the whole time, perhaps in Mayo, where his mother is from. James T. is no other person than James Thomas, who was born in Brooklyn in 1897 and went from Kiel to England (or Ireland) in 1911 as a 13 year old boy. He is now 25 years old. The couple soon gets five children. Still in the year of the marriage, a girl named Sarah is born (obviously named after her grandmother), in 1925 Ernest Martin follows, in 1926 Annie M., in 1928 James T. junior and in 1930 William.

On the 19th February 1931, James T. gets on board the ship Kerhonkson, not as a passenger, but as a seaman. He went on board in Liverpool and in the ship’s articles he is listed as a workaway. So he can travel fro free, but instead must work on board the ship. At this time, he is actually a harbour worker in the docks of Liverpool.

James Thomas arrives in Boston the 6th March and leaves the ship. In the same year, his mother Sarah, the widow of Wilhelm, enters another ship. She is now 64 years old and travels in the 3rd class (with a ticket that was paid for in advance) from the 19th September 1931 from Liverpool to New York, on the ship “Adriatic” of the White Star Line.

She arrives the 28th September in New York. As her last address in Europe, she had stated 61a Marsh Street, Liverpool. She states that this is the address where her daughter-in-law May Ellen Engellenner is living. She wants to stay in the US permanently and wants to apply for naturalization. Her destination: she wants to go to her son who lives in New York, 423 West, 22nd street.

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