The Family of Johann Jacob Eisenstein

Johann Jacob Eisenstein in the Lost 69 Project family tree at Ancestry.com

* Made the voyage to America in 1855

Marriage Record of Jacob Eisenstein and Dorothea Rohr - October 30, 1827
Johann Jacob Eisenstein * (FBC-65)
            son of Friedrich Eisenstein and Sophie Magdalena Herrmann
   b. 4 February 1798 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d.

     Married 30 October 1827 - Lichtenau, Germany

Dorothea Rohr
 * (FBC-66)
          daughter of Johann Michael Rohr Sr. (waggonmaker) and Salomea Zimmer
   b. 24 March 1804 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 

Children:


Jacob (Rohr) Eisenstein * (FBC-67)
   b. 7 November 1823 - Lichtenau, Germany
        Served in Civil War - 1st Ohio Light Artillery
   d. 

Georg (Rohr) Eisenstein 
   b. 28 March 1825 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 1849 - Killed in Action in the Revolution in Baden, Germany

Friedrich Eisenstein 
   b. 26 December 1827 - Lichtenau, Germany
        Served in Civil War - 1st Ohio Light Artillery
   d. 5 Nov 1862 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Died in service during Civil War

Dorothea Eisenstein * (FBC-68)
   b. 26 January 1829 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d.

Salomea Eisenstein 
   b. 14 September 1830 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d.

Barbara Eisenstein 
   b. 17 July 1832 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 7 February 1833 - Lichtenau, Germany

Sophia Barbara Eisenstein 
   b. 8 January 1834 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d.

Magdalena Eisenstein * (FBC-69)
   b. 29 March 1835 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 

Carl Eisenstein * (FBC-70) 
   b. 6 October 1836 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 

Ludwig Eisenstein 
* (FBC-71)
   b. 12 December 1837 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d.

Wilhelm Eisenstein 
   b. 18 April 1839 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 28 July 1839 - Lichtenau, Germany

Carolina Eisenstein 
   b. 25 September 1840 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 16 October 1840 - Lichtenau, Germany

Carolina Eisenstein
 * (FBC-72)
   b. 6 January 1842 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 

Wilhelm Eisenstein * (FBC-73)
   b. 13 February 1843 - Lichtenau, Germany
        Served in Civil War - 15th Ohio Infantry and 1st Ohio Light Artillery
   d. 

Maximilian Eisenstein 
   b. 28 May 1845 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 23 August 1845 - Lichtenau, Germany

Frederika (Rachel) Eisenstein * (FBC-74)
   b. 28 May 1848 - Lichtenau, Germany
   m. 28 October 1867 - Ludwig Fessler (FBC-92)
   d. 9 September 1915 - Saginaw, Michigan, USA

Georg Leopold Eisenstein 

   b. 24 August 1850 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 11 December 1850 - Lichtenau, Germany

Carolina Eisenstein * (FBC-75)
   b. About 1854 - Lichtenau, Germany
   d. 
(Carolina is possibly a granddaughter, belonging to Dorothea)





The Voyage to America
Passenger list of the Francis B. Cutting, 
Antwerp to New York, Arrived March 1, 1855.

On the voyage to America, the Eisenstein family traveled on the ship the Francis B. Cutting from Antwerp to New York. They left port in Antwerp on January 10, 1855 and arrived in New York on March 1, 1855.

Passenger records state that they brought "4 Chests of Wearing Apparel" and occupied 4 beds on the journey.  

Passengers #65-75 as they appear on the ships records:

(FBC-65)   Jacob Eisenstein - 57 years - Male - Farmer

(FBC-66)   Dorothea Eisenstein - 51 years - Female
(FBC-67)      Jacob Eisenstein - 31 years - Male
(FBC-68)      Dorothea  Eisenstein - 25 years - Female
(FBC-69)      Magdalena Eisenstein - 19 years - Female
(FBC-70)      Carl Eisenstein - 18 years - Male
(FBC-71)      Ludwig Eisenstein - 17 years - Male
(FBC-72)      Carolina Eisenstein - 11 years - Female
(FBC-73)      Wilhelm Eisenstein - 10 years - Male
(FBC-74)      Friedrich Eisenstein - 7 years - Male
(FBC-75)      Carolina Eisenstein - 6 months - Female







Descendants of Jacob Eisenstein

Charles Kocher - Michigan, USA
       2nd Great Grandson of Rachel Eisenstein (FBC-74)