My paternal grandfather, William (Willy) Albert Chabot, sailed from Bremen, Germany with his mother, sister Hulda, and younger brother Paul aboard the ship SS America. They arrived at Baltimore, Maryland on December 2, 1882.  There they were met by their adopted father, Louis Chabot, who had arrived the previous year. Willy’s birth father, Friedrich Rohnstein, had been killed in a train accident when the boy and his sister were infants. After their mother remarried, her new husband, Louis Chabot, adopted the children and raised them as his own. Louis and Friederike operated a popular confectionery shop in Maryland, where they made their own ice cream, candy, and baked goods. I have no additional information on the Rohnstein family, and have researched the Chabot surname since Willy and Hulda considered themselves Chabots first and foremost.

Father (Adopted): Louis Chabot

        Born: May 02, 1854                                                    In: Dortmund, Westfalen, Prussia
        Married: 1881                                                             In: Berlin

        Died: March 17, 1926                                                  In: Frostburg, Allegany Co., Maryland

        His Father: Thomas Chabot

His Mother: Maria Anna Orth

        Mother: Freiderike Liemenberg                                       (Other Spouses: Friedrich Rohnstein)

        Born: June 09,1849                                                      In: Dortmund, Westfalen, Prussia

        Died: October 16,1914                                                    In: Eckhart, Allegany Co., Maryland

        CHILDREN       

  Hulda Caroline Rohnstein Chabot   Born: March 22,1877
       
  William Albert Rohnstein Chabot    Born: October 09, 1878