Michael Friedrich Hein

Hamburg to Cape Town - The voyages of the Cesar Godeffroy 1858 and 1860

• Heyn, Michael, Arbeitsmann (3 1), Lübtow (Pr.), mit Frau Wilhelmine (27) und Wilhelm (6), August (3), Hanne (1).

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The British were looking for German Europeans to settle in South Africa and Michael Fredrick Heyn took this opportunity and travelled to Hamburg Germany and sailed on the ship Cesar Godeffroy on 12th April 1858 arriving in East London on the 8th July 1858. On then passenger list were: Heyn, Michael, Labourer (31), Lübtow (Prussia), wife Wilhelmine (27) and children Wilhelm (6), August (3), Hanne (1). Left Hamburg on 15 April 1858;

Arrived at East London on 7 July 1858;

18 children died en route.

Ship's doctor: Dr Rudolph Hafner from Esens, Hannover.

http://www.safrika.org/Names/schiff_01.html  http://www.eastlondon-labyrinth.com/germans/index.jsp   On arrival he decided to change the family surname to Hein and he settled together with his family among the Kaffraria Germans in the settlement of Braunschweig close to King Wiliams town, East London in the Cape Province.

THe original information was obtained from Edwin Hein of East London and from the records kept by family members and the ship passenger list. HANNA was killed while collecting sand from a pit when the side of the pit collapsed on her. By that union there was one child, Wilhelm. MICHAEL then married Hanna's sister WILHEMINE. Before leaving Prussia two more children were born, August Friedrich and Hanna. The family arrived in East London, Cape Colony on the 7th July 1858 aboard the immigrant ship, CESAR GODEFFROY. On the passenger list the name is spelt HEYN. THis casual spelling appears in several of the names as variations of spelling was perfectly acceptable in the German language. Details of the passenger lists and interesting accounts of the hardships endured by the immigrants can be obtained from the book 'For Men Must Work' by E.L.G. Schnell. This is a deposition that Schnell wrote for his doctorate at the university of Cape Town and all the information is supported by extensive research and documentary evidence.

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