Sometime prior to 1874, Heinrich and Wilhelmine (Milhan) Rambow made the decision to emigrate from Gross Wokern, Mecklenburg, Germany to America. They had 2 children at this time, Frederick (4 years old) and Bertha (1 year old).

They made their plans to leave in April, and Wilhelmine's mother, Marie Milhan, and her 18 year old daughter, Friedrike Maria Johanna Caroline and her 2 sons, Wilhelm Friedrick Ludwig Heinrich (16 years old) and Christoph Carl August Ludwig (11 years old) would emigrate with them too.

Another Rambow family from Muschau, Mecklenburg, Germany were traveling on the boat too. Johann and Dorothia Rambow and their 4 children aged 14 to 3 years old. It is believed these were relatives of Heinrich Rambow. (See Below)

Aunt Ruth took this information out of the Rambow Reunion Book in March 1991. Henry Rambow II, son of Henry I and Elizabeth Miller Rambow, was of a family of seven children; Henry, Hannah, William, Charles and three little sisters who died in infancy.

Henry Rambow served his country in the seven weeks war in 1866 (Austro-Prussian War). On November 8, 1868 he was united in marriage to Miss Wilhelmine Milhan. He again served in the Franco-Prussia War in 1870-1871. Mrs. Wilhelmine Milhan Rambow, daughter of John and Marie Miller Milhan, was of a family of five children; Wilhelmine, Frederick, Fredareka, William and Christopher.

On Sunday April 5, 1874 Grandmother Milhan attended church in her usual good health; after church she was bidding her many friends and neighbors good-bye and telling them of her plans to leave soon for America, with her son-in-law, Henry Rambow, and his wife, Wilhelmine, and her other three children, Fredareka, William and Christopher.

But fate proved otherwise, for on that same day she was taken ill which proved fatal, and she passed away April 10, 1874. With sad and heavy hearts they laid her to rest April 12, 1874 at Mecklenburg, Germany. This left Fredareka, William and Christopher motherless and homeless, which made Wilhelmine's bereavement much harder to bear, as she being the eldest made her responsible for those left homeless. But with the help of her kind husband, it made her task much lighter.

On the 13th day of April 1874, they together with their two children, Fredrick and Bertha, left their home town, Gross Wokern, Mecklenburg, Germany, for Hamburg, Germany, arriving there on the 14th of April.

On the following day April 15, bidding their home country good-bye, they boarded the ship Thuringia to sail for America.

They encountered several bad storms on the ocean. They were on the water eleven days. They landed at Castle Gardens Emigrant Depot, New York, April 26, 1874 and stayed in New York one day. Traveled by train from New York to Monroe, Michigan; arrived in Monroe May 4th, 1874 where they lived for a time. They moved to Dundee Township in March 1892. They moved on the present farm home in Raisinville Township where our Mother with her youngest son and daughter now reside.

Myrna (Drake) Bishop, granddaughter of Herman and Reka (Rambow) Heiden contributed the following information. It deals with the other family of Rambows that were on the same ship with our ancestors, Heinrich and Wilhelmine Rambow in 1874.

J. Christian H. Rambow & family left Germany from the port of Hamburg on April 15, 1874, on the SS Thuringia and arrived on April 30, 1874, at the port of New York. They came with children Hanna, Johann, Joachim, and Johanna. (First daughter Luise was already married and came later in July with her husband John Evers and their infant daughter.) From New York they settled in Columbus, OH by Oct. of 1874, where their last child was born. Then by 1875 they moved to Cullman, Alabama, where they settled and farmed next to the John A. Evers farm.

Dorothea Kundt Rambow died Aug-02-1899 in Cullman, AL. Christian H. Rambow died Jan-26-1904, also in Cullman Co., AL. They are buried in Cullman City Cemetery.

The German church records indicate that Johann CHRISTIAN Hans Rambow (son of Johann Christian Friedrich Rambow) born Jan-31-1832, Muchow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, landlord & farmer, married May-04-1866 to Maria Elisabeth DOROTHEA Kundt, born Dec-18-1835, Muchow.

This appears to be the other Rambow family on the boat to America with our Rambows. On the web, none of the previous 2 generations of this Rambow matches any of our Rambows. Muchow, now called Malchow, is about 25 miles south of Gross Wokem, from which our Rambows came. From what we know now, it does not appear that the two families were closely related or related at all.