My grandmother, Dorothy Heisman, left the U.S. on a ship (name unknown) for Europe (possibly Germany) in 1897 bearing Passport No. 983 issued on April 5, 1897. She gave birth to my father, Warren Loring Heisman, on Sept. 13, 1897, in England (I have a copy of his birth certificate). She then lived In Germany as my father was educated there. She made periodic trips to the U.S. According to second passport application, she left U.S. on Nov. 23, 1899. Over departures from U.S. occurred on Oct. 25, 1902; June 8, 1904; and June 6, 1914. I cannot find the names of any ships she traveled on.
This is additional information to the above. My grandmother was an American citizen born in Richmond, Va., according to her passport application issued in Minnesota on April 5, 1897, and in Lodi, WI, in subsequent passport applications (1900, 1902, 1904, 1915). She left the U.S. sometime in 1897 and gave birth to my father in England that year (she names the father on the birth certificate as John William Heisman of Heisman Trophy fame). Her name on the first passport was Dorothy Fairfax Heisman, it then changed to Dorothy v. Heisman (2nd and 3rd passports), Dorothy Virginia Fairfax Brown Heisman (4th passport) and Dorothy von Heisman (5th passport; she should not have used the "von"). From the end of the 19th century she lived in Germany and married a man name Ernst Moll around 1916, although she apparently knew him from around 1905. I have not found out where she married Moll, but she lived in Hamburg and then Berlin. From at least around 1935 she was in Shanghai (can't find any info of what she was doing there.) She boarded the SS President Wilson in Hong Kong in 1951 under the name Dorothy Moll (and c/o Dept. of State) and died in San Francisco the following year. Her death certificate names her father as George Brown and her mother as Elmira Lasser. My interest lies in tracing Dorothy's movements from the U.S. to Europe and what she was doing in Germany and China.
