Need help finding immigration and marriage records

Question

Can someone help me find some immigration and marriage details? The person in question is John George Gerlach. According to the 1900 census, he was married in 1884 to Wilhelimina Augusta “Minnie” Jahn and immigrated from Germany in 1864. He was born in Feb 1858 in Saxony, Germany and died March 31, 1928 in Cambridge, Dorchester, Maryland. Ancestry says his parents are Franz Gerlach and Auguste Schmidt, but I cannot find any evidence to support that so far.

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Do you mean this profile?

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Gerlach-686

Edited to add: I added some sources.

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I also attempted to find a marriage record for him, as well as sources for his wife's family of origin. While I found her birth record in Deerfield, I could not find her in any census records prior to 1900. This is likely due to bad indexing for a surname like JAHN.

Their first child was born in Connecticut which suggests a possibility for their marriage. But I was unable to find one. Perhaps someone with an NEHGS membership could check their databases.

I found one possibility for a passenger list on Ancestry.com. Age is slightly off. If you have access:

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7488/images/NYM237_307-0161?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=tSw8&_phstart=successSource&pId=6899713

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Side note, you might want to check out our suggestions on How to break down your German immigrant brick wall

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That age could also be read as 1 and a half years.

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Yes, it’s that profile. I did not check if there was one.

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I did find Minnie in the 1880 census, she was living with her mother, who remarried. Minnie and her sister were listed under the last name John(Prob bad indexing like you said)

https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/16915409:6742?tid=188782982&pid=322450665467&queryId=9c9d8ffe89f3567a7a9492cc072456c7&_phsrc=qjy4&_phstart=successSource

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Laith, so glad you found that; I tried various spellings as well, but did not find anything.

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I didn't find much on John, but a did find a lot for his wife Mina. I updated her bio but her parents and siblings need to be added.

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Nice work, Sean!!

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Sean, where did you find "Bosman" as Minnie's mother's maiden name?

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I found Johan and Frederika's marriage record as well. They married on 14 Sep 1854 at Greenfield, MA (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N4MP-1DV).