Johann Frederick Theodor Appel

Left Greisz, then known as Crewitsz, Prussia as 'Arbeittsmann' and board the ship 'Wilhelmsburg' under Captain I C H Muller, on 19 October 1858 from Hamburg to East London, South Africa, with pregnant wife and 5 small children, as part of a settlement plan for the small colony Kaffraria, Eastern Cape, South Africa, between the Governor Sir George Grey of the British Government, South Africa and a Hamburg businessman. Stopped in Cape Town, South Africa, for some of the families to embark. Arrived in East London on 13th January 1859 with 128 families still on board, ahead of the "Peter Godeffroy'.

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