The Steinacker Family
                                                          © 2003-2008  R. L. Steinacker 

Origins in America         

By the time Albert Christian Steinacker was born on 5 July 1849, there had been at least five generations of  Steinackers in Gorsleben.  (Gorsleben is located in the Konig Ekartsberg area of Saxony, Germany.)  Albert Christian  married  Bertha Johanna Dorothea Nordhaus 1 Apr 1877.  The couple experienced much heartache early in their marriage, losing their first two sons, one at age 4 in 1882 and one in 1883, less than ten days after he was born . Two more sons were born to the couple in Gorsleben:  Robert, born in 1884, and Benno, born in 1887.  

In 1892, Albert (age 42) and Bertha  (age 41) immigrated with their young sons to the United States. Traveling with them was Bertha's widowed mother, Amalia Nordhausen (age 62). They booked passage on the ship Augusta Victoria, first departing from Hamburg and then from Southampton, England and then entering the United States on 9 May 1892. The ship's manifest shows passengers from Italy, Prussia, & Austria, as well as Germany. The ship carried 1,100 passengers (400 first class, 120 second class, and 580 third class). For wonderful details on the immigrant experience, including the food they ate on the ship, the passage itself, and the inspection process once they arrived, please click on the Ellis Island Immigration Museum sitemap link below.  To see the original ship manifest and ship image page, click on "Ellis Island Records" below and be patient -- the site loads slowly.    

Settling in Campbellsport, Wisconsin, an area that already had many German immigrants, Albert and Bertha raised their young family. Hugo, their third son, was born in Campbellsport year after the family's arrival in the United States.

My brother-in-law has researched this family.  If you are interested in additional information, please email me and I'll put you in touch with him.

Ellis Island Records -- the American Family Immigration History Center
Ellis Island Immigration Museum -- the immigrant experience
Steinacker Family Photos
Ferber and Nordhaus Family Photos