ABRAHAM ROSENTHAL (ABRAM ROGALL) - IMMIGRATION - MAY 1, 1896 - AGE 35

DOCUMENTS:
rosenthal-abraham-immigration-1896-05-01-english.jpg (passenger list in English -- see 6 lines up from the bottom of the second page)
rosenthal-abraham-immigration-1896-05-01-german.jpg (passenger list in German -- see second line from bottom of page)

NOTES:

• These passenger lists (see transcriptions below) show that Abraham Rogall (Rosenthal) [Harold's paternal grandfather] -- prior to immigrating in 1902 with his wife, children, and grandson -- had come over years earlier on his own.
• Are these documents for the right Abraham Rogall? I believe so, as the year of birth is about what we'd expect, and -- more important -- the place he's from is what we'd expect: "Prsasnitz"! (This word appears in the German document, in the column "Bisheriger Wohnort" which means "Previous residence"). We know from other documents that the Rogall family was from Przasnysz, Poland.
• These two documents are excerpts from an English passenger list and a German passenger list for the same voyage. The ship, named "Scandia," left Hamburg, Germany on April 19, 1896 and arrived in New York City on May 1. (This information is taken from first page of the English passenger list and the first page of the German passenger list.)
• The name appears to be Abraham Rogall (not "Alexaham" as in the transcription).
• His occupation is given as shoemaker
• His intended destination is New York.
• Under "Native Country," it says "Russian." (The field on the form is called "Native Country" -- not "Ethnicity/Nationality" as the transcription implies.) Much of Poland was part of the Russian Empire at the time.
• Under "Location of Compartment or space occupied forward, amidships or aft." it says "3 amidships."
• Under "Transient, In Transit or intending protracted sojourn" it says "P.S." for everyone on the page.
• Here's a copy of the (modern) transcription for the English passenger list, copied from ancestry.ca

  New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 about Alexaham Rogall
  Name: 	Alexaham Rogall
  Arrival Date: 	1 May 1896
  Birth Date: 	abt 1861
  Age: 	35
  Gender: 	Male
  Ethnicity/ Nationality: 	Russian
  Port of Departure: 	Hamburg
  Port of Arrival: 	New York, New York
  Ship Name: 	Scandia
  

• Here's a copy of the (modern) transcription for the German passenger list, copied from ancestry.ca

  Hamburger Passagierlisten, 1850-1934 Hamburg Passenger Lists, 1850-1934
  Name: 	Abram Rogall
  Departure Date: 	19 Apr 1896
  Birth Date: 	abt 1861
  Age: 	35
  Gender: 	männlich (Male)
  Residence: 	Prsasnitz, Russland (Russia)
  Occupation: 	Schuster
  	 
  Ship Name: 	Scandia
  Captain: 	Schmidt
  Shipping line: 	Hamburg-Amerika Linie 
  (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft)
  Shipping Clerk: 	Hamburg-Amerika Linie 
  (Hamburg-Amerikanische Packetfahrt-Actien-Gesellschaft)
  Ship Type: 	Dampfschiff
  Accommodation: 	Zwischendeck
  Ship Flag: 	Deutschland
  Port of Departure: 	Hamburg
  Port of Arrival: 	New York
  	 
  Volume: 	373-7 I, VIII A 1 Band 092 B