Notes:

From: Brad Larkin
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=danandnicky&id=I702
BIOGRAPHY: Emigrated to the U.S. with his family on the ship 'Desiree and Tully' from Hamburg Germany to New Orleans, LA.

BIOGRAPHY: Blöcker, Hinrich Chr, age 42, Farmer
Blöcker, Sophia, age 44
Blöcker, Christian, age 22
Blöcker, Heinrich Frdr, age 18
Blöcker, Hans Christian, age 15
Blöcker, Asmus, age 12
Blöcker, Jorgen Hinr, age 7
Blöcker, Johann, age 4
Blöcker, Hans Christian, age 1
Blöcker, C. H., age 37, Shoemaker

BIOGRAPHY: The "Traer Star-Clipper" (Fri., Feb. 7, 1958, Trier, Tama Co., IA) newspaper has the following from an interview with Herman F. Blocker. "My father, Asmus Blocker, a native of Germany, who left that country for a new life in the United States, crossed the ocean in a sailing vessel, the voyage requiring 30 days. The wind was against the crew much of the way. The seas were infested with pirate ships at that time. One took after the ship on which my father was a passenger. It had one more sail than the pirate ship and it got away, but not until it had been chased far out of its course - somewhere between Florida and Cuba. Some of the passengers and crew contacted cholera on the trip. Several died, and their bodies buried at sea." However, there were no deaths annotated for the Blöckers.

Hinrich married Dorothea Margaretha Sievert. Dorothea (daughter of Bendix Hinrich Sievert and Anna Margaretha Nickel) was born on 5 Sep 1808 in Holstein, Iowa; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Christian married Magdalena Catharina Rambow. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Bendix married Anna Margaretha Nickel. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]