This blog will be a continuation of explaining my quest for finding those extra tidbits of insight into the Pequegnat family.  In my last blog I mentioned that I had a copy of the ship's manifest.  This document solved a mystery for me.  On the front side of Emma's trunk is the name "Adolph Pequegnat," with "New York" written under the name.  I had always assumed that Emma had come to America with her Uncle Francois and Aunt Pauline Pequegnat.  Why did the trunk have Adolph's name on it?

The ship's manifest shows the Pequegnat family as: Adolph, age 32, Male, Farmer, Switzerland, USA.  Listed with him are: Pauline, Melanie, Emma, and Anne (which should be Ami).   The Pequegnat genealogy shows that Adolph is Pauline's brother, Melanie is her sister, Emma is her niece, and Ami is her son.  A little more research and I found that Pauline's husband, Francois, had actually emigrated to America about one and one-half years before his wife.  So, Adolph accompanied his sisters to America and then returned back home to Switzerland.

The ship's manifest shows that they left from the port of Hamburg, Germany on April 29, 1869, and they arrived in New York on May 11, 1869.  The name of the ship was the Westphalia, built with a combination of steam engine and sails.

To be continued.