Family |
Christian John Zimmerman, b. 1880, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
Marriage |
2 Oct 1877 |
Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa [2] |
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Chris. John Zimmerman and Elizabeth Ann Carr were married in a private residence by the Wesleyan Minister William Tyson in the presence of Carl Zimmerman and Mary Elizabeth Zimmerman who signed as witnesses.
C J Zimmeman was a wagonmaker at the time of his marriage.
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Notes |
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6th August 2002, received faxed information from Maureen Rose, (Niece of Norman Zimmerman) Zimmerman Family Tree handwritten by Myrtle Day Dickens who married Norman Stanley Zimmerman.
In her notes she writes the following :
Grandpa Chris came to South Africa with his parents from Wiesbaden, Germany, where he was born. He was only a young child when they landed and went to live at Hamburg where he grew up. They moved to Grahamstown.
He was a wagon builder by trade and worked in a wood and iron building in Concorde Street, just below the Good Sheds where the National Lamp factory is now.
They lived in a little cottage in the grounds of City Lords until 6 Trollope Street was built. They built on 3 wood and iron rooms on to the house and they had a shop in the front room. When her parents were married they moved into the house. The old couple moved into the house. The old couple moved into the annex where the old lay died in Feb. 1917 (Noel Myrtle was 6 weeks old).
Information received from Becky Horne, Port Elizabeth :
ZIMMERMAN, Johann Conrad (1823), aged 38, wife Catherine, aged 33 with 5 children, from Nassau, Kesselbach, settled in King Williams Town (One source) or Hamburg (Eastern Cape) (Another source)
They departed from Hamburg aboard the 'WANDRAHM', 564 tons, on 13 August 1858, arrived East London on 6th December 1858. Aboard were 74 families, comprising 344 people of who 264 were adults. Ten children and one adult died on the voyage. Ship's Captain H Decker, Ships Doctor, Fr. August Hanf.
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Children |
+ | 1. Herbert Zimmerman, b. 20 Dec 1878, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. Abt 1919 (Age 40 years) |
| 2. Ivy May Wilhelmina Zimmerman, b. 9 Mar 1882, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
| 3. William Leslie Zimmerman, b. 23 Mar 1884, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 21 Nov 1940, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 56 years) |
| 4. Idalia Frances Zimmerman, b. 29 Jun 1886, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
+ | 5. Norman Stanley Zimmerman, b. 28 Aug 1887, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 21 Mar 1938, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 50 years) |
| 6. Wilfred Allister Zimmerman, b. 12 Sep 1890, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 10 Nov 1951, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 61 years) |
| 7. Elizabeth Irene Zimmerman, b. 8 Nov 1893, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa |
| 8. Oswald Lester Zimmerman, b. 3 Apr 1897, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa d. 6 Oct 1902, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa (Age 5 years) |
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Family ID |
F45521 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Last Modified |
27 Oct 2016 |