When did the second Schochenmaiers come to the New World?

As we did it for Jacob Schochenmaier, we can discover the date of immigration of Michael Schochenmaier with his family as well.

On the FamilySearch you can find "United States Russians to America Index, 1834-1897" where among others the date of arrival of Michael Schochenmaier is to be discovered. The only one problem is that his surname was written with "y" instead of "i": SCHOCHENMAYER.

So, the 4th May 1887 is the day when the second family of Schochenmaiers (and possibly the last one) had come to the U.S. 

He came with his wife Christine (née Winkler, 1858-1926): 

and with two first elder kids:

Catherine (Katherine, 1884-1966), who will later marry Johann Klien (1875-1936)

and any "Wilhelm Schochenmayer". At first, I was struck by that Wilhelm because the first son of Michael had been Fred(rich) born in 1888, the first born in the New World as well... It looks very suspiciously... but then I read carefully all lines and cheked out our family tree on the Ancestry.com and I realized that this Wilchelm is surely the short and/or wrong version of Wilhelmina Schochenmaier, the last born in the Russian Empire (1885/7-1963), who will later marry to Christian Odenbach (1886-1962). It's also justified by the gender of that baby: 

I wonder why the younger brother Jacob Schochenmaier (1861/2-1923) came first and only then, almost one year later, the elder brother Michael joined him? 

• It looks like if the first one was a "mine detector": after having settled in the USA, he sent the message and confirmed that it was secure to come... 
• Or, maybe, the younger generation is always more adventuruous)))
• Or, at that time, they needed "smiths", so Jacob came first and then Micahel the "Farmer" as a near of kin...      

In the next post, I will tell you about the ships on which they came to America!