Christian Scharenbroch
(1845-1926)
Christian Scharrenbroch and his wife, Mary Magdalena Herr
This story applies to all of us who descended from Heinrich Scharenbroch. Christian came to America with his parents and siblings at the same time.
Christian Scharenbroch, son of Immigrant Heinrich Scharenbroch, is from whom I descend. As a young boy, only seven years old, he came with his family, from the small community of Eil, Prussia, on the most exciting adventure of his life. The trip, from Eil to Antwerp, Belgium, would have been the first time that he had travelled away from his home and all that was familiar. With wide eyes, he would have gazed upon the ocean-going ship, August. Never before would he have seen anything, as large as the August, on the Rhine River that ran near his home. The August was a new ship, and the smells of wood, ropes, and sails would have delighted and stimulated his young nose. Most likely, as the ship pulled away from the dock, the sails would have been raised to their full glory, catching the wind, snapping and billowing, thus further amazing the young boy. At this point of the journey, he may have been imagining himself as the Captain of such a ship adventuring forth to exotic, mysterious, foreign places.
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