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21 August 2002

AGDERN Surname Page

I'm somewhat stuck on what to do with researching the Agdern's.

I'm the daughter of Jacqueline Mae Agdern, daughter of Ernest Agdern, son of Yetta and William Agdern, son of (we believe) Abraham David Agdern.

Apparently, Yetta came over in her late teens, worked for a while then went back to Austria (?) to fetch William and some other relatives. (My mother recently came by some information that claimed that Yetta's name was really "Jetti" and William was "Wolf" before coming to the States). I just found out that the ship they sailed on the second time was called the "Main" owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd. They sailed here from Bremen in December, 1906. Here's the info I found about the "Main" from an Internet Immigrant Ships List:

MAIN
The "Main" of 1906 was the second vessel of that name owned by Norddeutscher Lloyd [North German Lloyd]. She was built in 1900 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg and was a 10,200 gross ton ship, length 501ft x beam 58.1ft, one funnel, four masts, twin screw, and a speed of 14 knots. There was accommodation for 148-1st, 116-2nd and 2,500-3rd class passengers. Launched on 10/2/1900, she sailed from Bremen on her maiden voyage to Cherbourg and New York on 28/4/1900. On 30/6/1900, she sank after being involved in a New York dock fire and on 27/7/1900 was refloated and subsequently reconditioned at Newport News, her accommodation then being 369-2nd, 217-3rd, and 2,865-4th class passengers. On 21/8/1902 she commenced her first voyage from Bremen to New York and Baltimore and subsequently sailed between Bremen and New York and/or Baltimore. In June 1914 she made her last sailing from Bremen to Baltimore and between 1914 - 1918 was laid up at Antwerp. In 1919 she was allocated to Britain under the War Reparations scheme and in 1921 went to the French government. She was scrapped in 1925. [North Atlantic Seaway by N.R.P.Bonsor, vol.2,p.562] [Posted to The ShipsList by Ted Finch - 16 November 1997}

We believe that William had only one sibling, Aaron. There are only three living relatives of Aaron: my cousin Daniel Agdern, his wife and daughter. Most of that side of the tree was apparently killed off during WWII and the Holocost.

We know that the Agdern's came from a town called Monasterzyska (44 deg N lat, 25 deg E long). It's currently located in the Ukraine.

I recently acquired a bunch of pictures of my grandfather, Ernie Agdern, and his family. Here's one of many of the Agderns plus the back of the picture which tells who's who and I've added a bit on who each of those people are.



Ernie was my grandfather. Harry and Ruby were two of his brothers. Ruth was married to Ruby (eventually - I don't know the date on this picture). I'm still trying to figure out who the others are.