Emigration to America
The failed German revolution in
1848 stimulated emigration. Over the next years millions left Germany and
settled in the United States. Some arrived seeking religious or political freedom, others
for economic opportunities greater than those in Europe and others simply for
the chance to start afresh in the New World.
The oldest well-known Tabeling is
Martin Tabeling, also called Marten Tabelinck. His name appears already in 1549.
A number of Tabeling were gentleman-farmers, like of Hausstette. Sons of Martin
Tabeling, Hermann, Johann and Rudolf have descendants in America. Most of them emigrated from Hausstette, Lüsche in Oldenburg. At that time, Oldenburg was the Grand Duchy of
Oldenburg, ruled by a Grand Duke. It is now a part of the state of Niedersachsen, or Lower Saxony. It is in the coastal lowlands of Northern
Germany, south and west of the River Weser and the great port of Bremen.
About six miles west of Lüsche is the
little railroad town Essen. It was there that our family members would have
gone, probably by cart or wagon, to catch a train to the city of Oldenburg then
Bremen for their voyages to America.
You
can well imagine the mixture of hope and trepidation they must have felt as the
slow, plodding wagon carried them farther and farther away. The older ones would
have known they would never again see the place of their birth or the graves of
their ancestors.
Faith
in more favorable opportunities in the United States exercised a great influence
on the decision to leave. |
One found bloodline of the Hermann Tabeling family is: |
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Two found bloodlines of the Johann Tabeling family are: |
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A descendant of Rudolf Tabeling and Lucia
Margaretha Klünemann,
Johann Heinrich (John Henry) Tabeling,
emigrated
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1850 to Breckinridge Co, Kentucky. He had ten
American-born children. |
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An other descendant of Rudolf Tabeling and Lucia Margaretha Klünemann, Gerhardt Heinrich Tabeling, emigrated December 1856 to Baltimore, Baltimore Co/Maryland. In 1860 he married Margareth Elizabeth Decker. He was a merchant tailor, same as his father. | ||
In 1886
John Carl, Bernard Friedrich and Henry Scheve
emigrated to Lyon Co, Kansas. |
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