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Nuremberg — Passenger Manifest (Roster)

Source: U.S. Customs passenger list/manifest, District & Port of New Orleans. Ship Nuremberg, master J. Stevens[?], from Havre (Le Havre), sworn 21 April 1855. Manifest internal page 126 (vol. LAM259_41). Scans: LAM259_41-0844.jpg … -0851.jpg (8 pages); duplicate labeled copies colonists1.jpg (= 0850, #254–296) and colonists2.jpg (= 0851, #297–300 + cabin).

Tally on the manifest: "290 Passengers Adult and Children / 9 Infants" + "10 Cabin Passengers" = "307 passengers" (figure written at lower right of 0851).

Method / reliability note

Handwritten cursive read from page images (base-resolution best-effort pass, per the project transcription workflow). Surnames and faint readings are flagged [?]. The bulk (#1–253) are German/Swiss steerage families (origins Switz., Baden, Würtemberg); the French colony-leadership group is the 10 cabin passengers, which were read at high zoom and are reliable. This whole-ship manifest is much larger than the colony contingent — only a subset are La Reunion colonists. Cross-check names against COLONISTS.md / Santerre / Cordillot before treating any as confirmed colonists.

Columns: # · Surname · Given name · Age · Sex · Native country · Country of intended habitation · Occupation. A blank surname = same family as the line above (ditto). "″" in a column = ditto. Native country / intended habitation were filled sparsely; intended habitation is almost always "New Orleans".

Steerage passengers

Page 0844 (#1–35)

Page 0845 (#36–79)

Page 0846 (#80–123)

Page 0847 (#124–167)

Page 0848 (#168–210)

Page 0849 (#211–253)

Page 0850 (#254–296) — labeled copy colonists1.jpg

Note: from here on the passengers are predominantly French with colony-type trades (hatter, furrier, carpenter, locksmith, gardener, weaver) — the likely La Reunion contingent. Occupations read from the faint occupation column, base-res.

Page 0851 (#297–300) — labeled copy colonists2.jpg

After #300: written tally — "290 Passengers Adult and Children / 9 Infants."

Cabin passengers (#1–10) — the French colony-leadership group

Read at high zoom; reliable. Native country français, intended habitation New Orleans for all ten.

Written at lower right: "10 Cabin Passengers" and the grand total "307 passengers."

Observations / cross-reference leads

• The ship is not the colony. 307 total passengers; only a subset are La Reunion colonists. The German/Swiss steerage families (#1–~250, origins Switz., Baden, Würtemberg, Bavière, Hesse) are ordinary emigrants whose colony status must be checked individually — do not assume them colonists.
• The colony contingent IS the block #251–286 + the 10 cabin passengers = 46 embarked (resolved Jul 2026 against Savardan's own group enumeration, naufrage ch. III, and the Cordillot roster; scan re-read at high zoom). 46 − the 5 Jura who stayed at New Orleans ≈ Savardan's "~40 continued," + Christophe joining at Galveston. The German/Swiss block resumes at #287 (origin "Suisse"). Scattered French families earlier in steerage (Müller #51, Geoffroy #97, Hamm #151, Coutag #159, Plessis #165, Theobald #167–168) remain unconfirmed as colonists — cross-check individually.
• Systematic hand gotcha found: the clerk's long-s pair "ſſ" was misread as "p"/"pr" in the first pass — Roſſereau = Bossereau (#253–254, initial R/B ambiguous, Savardan+Cordillot fix it), Duſſeau = Dusseau (#265), Heriſſon = Herisson (#262). Check any residual "-p-" mid-surname reading against an ſſ alternative.
• Savardan's origin groups mapped to the manifest: Hautes-Alpes = Nicolas (cabin #2) + Pascal (#275) + Brochier (#276); Ardennes = Guyot-Rémy ×3 (#272–274); Château-Renault = Brunet (#278) + Boulay ×3 (cabin #4–6); Orléans = Dailly (#277); Rouen = Gaidel (cabin #3); Paris = Bussy (cabin #1) + Montreuil (cabin #8) + Capy[?] (#286) + a cooper (#279 Robat Martin, Tonnelier[?] — candidate); La Chapelle-Gaugain = Bossereau ×2 (#253–254) + a plowman + a stone-cutter (unidentified among the remaining men); Le Mans 7 ≈ Peloux ×4 (#257–260) + Candil ×3 (#267–269) (loose — Savardan's trade labels don't map 1:1; occupation column re-read pending). The 11 Carcassonne (incl. two women + two young ladies) are NOT individually resolvable yet — candidates among Blot (#251), Renier (#252), Come (#255), Barret (#261), Herisson (#262), Montagne (#270), Cohu (#280), Perrin (#281), Cushil/Cillard (#282), Mique (#283), Bride (#284), Guyenet (#285), and possibly the Poitevin–Dusseau cluster (#263–266). The 5 Jura who stayed at New Orleans are also among the unmatched entries — which five is open.
• Family cluster find: #263–266 = Poitevin Guillaume 50 + Anna 23 (= Mme Poitevin Anne née Dusseau, Cordillot) + Dusseau Pierre 55 + Louise 26 — the Louise Dusseau of Pratt's Sam Jones courtship note. Manifest × Cordillot × Pratt triple-lock.
• Name to flag: #142 Remond[?], Fridolin[?] (age 19) — verify reading and whether any link to Émile Remond's family; almost certainly coincidental (German/Swiss block), but worth a check.
• #286 Capey[?]/Gapey[?], Baptiste (24) — surname resembles Charles Capy; likely coincidence, flag for cross-check.
• Date check: manifest sworn 21 April 1855 at New Orleans, from Le Havre — reconcile against the "1853 Nuremberg" date flagged in the Savardan notes and against Beecher's "43 with Savardan" vs. Wolski's "75."

Manifest scans

p. 0844 · p. 0845 · p. 0846 · p. 0847 · p. 0848 · p. 0849 · p. 0850 · p. 0851