Danish maritime records

[Rhonda Staskow]

Hi all-
I discovered some new information on my relatives in Denmark which appears to be some maritime records. (They became ship captains later in their lives.)

Johann Wilhelm Reimer is listed here on page 18:
http://ao.salldata.dk/vis1.php?side=18&bsid=18684&kb=%C3%85benr%C3%A5+amt%2C+U%2C+1844%2C+S%C3%B8rulle
Could I get an explanation of what this record is and any pertinent information? I can decipher the reference to his father - Johann David Heinrich Reimer and he was 16 years old and that he is blonde with blue eyes.
Similarly, there is a reference to his brother Hans Christian Reimer, when he was 15? What sort of record was this on page 4.
http://ao.salldata.dk/vis1.php?side=4&bsid=18636&kb=%C3%85benr%C3%A5+amt%2C+U%2C+1844%2C+Til+og+afgangsrulle
In particular I am looking to see what is in the right hand column.

Thank you and regards, Rhonda

[Inger Buchard]

In my best rusty English
1843, aged 20, Johann was noted in the conscription lists of sailors - Sørullen - (not of soldiers as in the 'lægdrulle') and 1840 he was not available because of Udenrigsfart: he was sailing in foreign trade
The ships of Aabenraa went to China and the Caribbean Sea

1845 his brother Hans Christian aged 15 volunteered for the consciption list of sailors: frivilling indrulleret

Inger Buchard

[Rhonda Staskow]

Thank you Inger as always you are very helpful. Do you or anyone know of anymore digitized records on Aabenraa sailors and sea captains?
At one time in the 1860's, many of the ship captains in port in Hong Kong, Shanghai and around Singapore and Japan were from Aabenraa and Sonderborg and surrounds. My Great Great Great Grandfather JHD Reimer was a ship builder in Aabenraa. His two sons were sea captains and another was a ship builder that moved to Montevideo, Uruguay. The wife of my Great Great grandfather (one of the ship captains JW Reimer) had two sisters also married to ship captains in the area, and her brother was a ship captain. The father other ship captain's wife (of Hans Christian Reimer) was also a ship captain.
I am particularly interested in ships that they may have sailed on while sailors, before they were ship captains.

[Lisa Petersen]

Hi Rhonda

Try this:

https://arkivalielister.dis-danmark.dk/ao_alt_vis_navne.php?stil=2&navn=skibslist&sort=s

You might also find cases involving your ship captain ancestors in justits- or politiprotokoller, but they are usually not indexed.  If you have a lot of ancestors in Aabenraa or in any one place, it's worth looking page-by-page.  They are excellent records.

Happy hunting.

Lisa Petersen
near Washington, D.C.

[Inger Buchard]

Mikkel Leth Jespersen wrote a book 2014 about the ships and shippers of Aabenraa
'Kaptajner og kolonier
Sejlskibstidens oversøiske Aabenraa-søfart'
https://jv.dk/artikel/aabenraa-kaptajner-sejlede-forrest-i-1800-tallet#slide1

I don't know the book, but as a leader of the lokal Museum he would be the expert

Inger Buchard

[Rhonda Staskow]

Thanks Lisa for the information. 
Thanks Inger for the reference.
I will check those both.

[Børge Nielsen]

Search the danish newspapers here: http://www2.statsbiblioteket.dk/mediestream/avis

When you search for "kapitain Reimer" and "capitain Reimer" you will get some hits.

[Rhonda Staskow]

Thank you Borge. That is useful. Rhonda

[Rhonda Staskow]

Lisa -
The crew lists in the archive have been very helpful and I have found my ancestor and another family member on the ships' crews. Do you know if there is a list prior to 1846. Records show that my ancestor was at sea prior to 1846 and I presume he had signed with another ship.

Regards Rhonda

[Lisa Petersen]

Hi Rhonda

I tried searching DAISY for skibslister:

https://www.sa.dk/daisy/arkivskaber_eller_arkivserie_liste?c=skibslister&d=1&e=2020

and saw there are some Skibslister og Søfolk for Aabenraa Købstad from 1713 to 1869:

https://www.sa.dk/daisy/arkivserie_detaljer?a=&b=&c=skibslister&d=1&e=2020&f=&g=&h=&ngid=&ngnid=&heid=10346300&henid=10346300&epid=&faid=&meid=&m2rid=&side=&sort=&dir=&gsc=&int=&ep=&es=&ed=

The whole series has been scanned and put online.  Try this:

https://www.sa.dk/ao-soegesider/da/billedviser?epid=19886331#267087,50375870

Happy hunting!

Lisa P.

[Rhonda Staskow]

Thanks Lisa - This will be useful.
Kind regards, Rhonda