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Historical records and modern reporting show Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Bavaria to the United States in 1885 at age 16 to join his sister; under Bavarian law his departure before compl...
— ’s migration and later dealings prompted legal and administrative actions in his lifetime: he left as an underage emigrant in a way that violated Bavarian conscription rules, later petitioned Bavari...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump is documented in U.S. arrival records as a 16‑year‑old who sailed from Bremen on the S.S. Eider on October 7, 1885 and was processed at New York’s Castle Garden on October ...
A cluster of primary and records for exists in archival sets commonly used by genealogists: passenger arrival lists and early passport applications, a minor naturalization petition filed in , and asso...
Primary, contemporaneous records tied to Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s 1885 emigration and the later Bavarian citizenship actions include passenger arrival lists showing a “Friedr. Trumpf” on the stea...
A royal Bavarian decree from February 1905 ordered “the American citizen and pensioner Friedrich Trump” to leave the Kingdom of Bavaria — specifying he must depart by 1 May or face deportation — on th...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump’s paper trail includes U.S. arrival records at Castle Garden, patchy references to U.S. naturalization efforts, and a set of Bavarian archival documents—a banishment/deport...
Friedrich (Frederick) Trump emigrated from Kallstadt in the Palatinate (then Kingdom of Bavaria) to the United States in 1885 at age 16, boarding a steamship in October and arriving in New York later ...
Local German municipal archives in Kallstadt and Bavarian police files from 1905 do not appear in the surveyed reporting as having explicit records that . Contemporary English-language summaries and b...