Germany to Ohio
It would appear that my Barlows started with a Theodor Barlage who appears in Teppe's "Baltimore arrival records 1820-34" as:
Theodor Burlage, 30 years, farmer, Germany to USA, arrival 30 September, 1832.
I have not yet verified the actual source records but everything seems to match and this is most likely the fellow I've been working on.
He was born in Essen in Oldenburg on May 22, 1805 to Johann Theodore Barlage and Catharina Maria Moorkamp. He married according to the Cinncinati Catholic Telegraph as Theodore Borlaci to Elizabeth Parker on February 05, 1834 by Bishop Purcell. She soon died; he then married a Dorothea Nippgen in Dayton in 1838. I will be entering all this data with children etc, as soon as I can.
Point here is to say that Theodore became a Barlow on all other references to him except for some entries in the two German churches he was involved with in Dayton.
Theodore built a number of churches including the one in Minster, Ohio as he had learned this trade at home from his father. Don't know why they called him a farmer as that is something he really never did. His firm of Legler & Barlow in Dayton became quite big in supplying goods to the US Government. This stopped cold during WWII and the company seems to have gone out of business in 1949 after unsuccessfuly trying to become a retail business.
We can see from Burlange and Borlaci that Barlage presented some spelling problems to the English speaking world. Barlow was a quick and easy way to fix this. It is a good translation of Barlage and flows much much better from the tongue.
I have a short quote here from the "Dayton Journal," as
republished by the Catholic Telegraph in Cincinnati upon the death
of Theodore Barlow in 1877:
"Steady and industrious, he gradually assisted himself along, acquiring the respect and confidence of those with whom he associated by his habits of diligence and energy. At this period he used to relate with much pleasure that he had learned to read and understand the English language with the thoroughness that was often remarked (remarkable?), mainly by carefully reading and studying the Dayton Journal."
His children all married into the highest circles of Dayton society and yet corresponded in fluent German with their relatives at home in Essen, Oldenburg for another generation or two.
