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07.12.1852 Bremerhaven, 
1942 New York, N: 271 Ogden Avenue, [I6931], N: cabin boy at the age of 14, sailingmaster , N: sailing master, Genealogie von Elsa Poppe, 1937. Diese Linie der Poppe geht zurück bis zu Lukas Poppe, 1666-1737, Bauer in Wildeshausen, der Hermann Heitzhuesen/Poppe adoptierte.When Anton was fourteen years of age, he left home and became a cabin boy, sailing around the world many times when it took four months to sail around the globe. Like his brothers Christoph and Johann and his brother-in-law Henry Frerichs, he served as sailing master.
When sailing vessels became obsolete, he retired about 1902 and removed to New Jersey where he lived for fifty years.
In earlier years, “Theodor� stayed in New York with his sister Hermine. both he and his sister lived into their eighties and stayed together until their deaths.