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Family Subtree Diagram : Dittmer

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Between them lived Mrs Ethel Wall at no. 35, who would give her visitors some potent ginger beer. 1924 - 1995 Margaret (Peggy) Edith Hamer 71 71 Lived at 1 Devonshire Rd. in 1939 and before she was married, which is where she met Harry.  My mother recalls "he had come around to do some electrical work at the house and he left fully charged".

Born on April fools day, but she was no fool. She always wanted a big kiss from her nephews. Colin Keith Dittmer Roger B Dittmer Lynda J Dittmer Jane Margaret Hampson James Brian Dittmer Thomas Harry Dittmer Sarah Jane Dittmer Graham Taylor Maureen B Lynch Benjamin (Ben) Mathew Taylor Andrew Taylor 1893 - 1966 Harry (Harold) Dittmer 73 73 28-Jan-1893 Harry was born at 104 Opic Street, North Everton in the district of West Derby.  His father was Peter Henry Dittmer (known as Henry), a sugar house labourer, and his mother was Frederica Dittmer, formerly Westpfhal.

In 1897, Harry (DOB 28 Jan 1893), son of Henry was still living at 104 Opic Street when he first admitted to School at St Peter's COE School, Sackville Street, Everton, aged 4.

In 1901, Harry Dittmer was living at 4 Brumwick Road, Sculcoates,  Kingston upon Hull, aged 6.

In 1911, the family were at 56 Mossman Street, Windhill, Shipley.  Harry was 18.

3 Jul 1919, Harry, living at 86 Frodsham Street, married Elsie Brereton of 7 Tunnel Road (the Red Lion) at Birkenhead.

Henry and Freda were living at Doctor Lane, Idle, Bradford diring the 1920's and 1930's.  Mum's family always went to Idle, Bradford for their holidays.  It was all they could afford.

Harry was an Engineer at the Bus Depot at Laird St., Birkenhead.  He smoked a pipe, and had an occasional cigar (at Christmas).

When his father died in 1950, he inherited £231, a tidy sum in those days. He retired early about this time due to ill health, presumably helped by this inheritance.

 1926 - 1989 Clifford (Cliff) Dittmer 63 63 Cliff was discharged from the Army because of his back or posture.  He worked for a printers in Birkenhead, near the gas works, opposite the Bus Depot.  When that printer closed, he went to work in Liverpool for Dickens(?) Printers.

While in Liverpool he lived-in (or lodged), returning home at the weekends.  Frank Brereton (a boss in Western Ship Builders, aka Camel Lairds) got him a job at a plater there.

Cliff was a bit of a loaner, and lived with and cared for his mother Elsie for most of his life.  He enjoyed reading and gardening.
 1920 - 1976 Harry Dittmer 56 56 Peggy and Harry lived at 47 Broadway, Bebington. 1922 - 2009 Dorothy “Joan” Dittmer 87 87 My mum (Joan) was born 20-Jan-1922.  She went to school in Tollimash Road, Birkenhead.  They lived at 44 Upper Brassy St. until 1933, when they moved to 37 Devonshire Road, Upton.

When she married Walter, they moved to Town Lane, Bebington, which is where she lived for her entire married life. 1894 - 1987 Elsie Brereton 93 93 Elsie is my Grandmother.

Spelt "Brearton" in 1901 census.

In 1901, Elsie Brereton (7) was living at 17 Marion Grove, Birkenhead with parents Richard & Lydia.

In 1911, Elsie (17) and living at 7 Tunnell Road, Birkenhead (The Red Lion).  Her father Richard was a Beer House Keeper.

3 Jul 1919, Elsie Married Harry Dittmer at St. Pauls (Tranmere), Birkenhead.

In 1921, Elsie and Harry were still in Birkenhead with Frank (her yonger Brother) and son Harry.

 1870 - 1939 Friedericke (Freda) Dorothee Westphal 69 69 Before Friedericke Dorothee Westphal (Freda) arrived in Liverpool, Henry Dittmer was lodging with Christian and Sophie Westphal in Everton, Liverpool in 1891. She came to England about 1881.

Her father is recorded as Christian Westphal, a sugar refiner on her marriage certificate of 1892. However, the lack of a DNA connection to WESTPAHL from Bremen, it is possible she was adopted or otherwise taken in by her father for an arranged marriage to Henry Dittmer. This would also help explain my lack of "German DNA".

When Freda’s father married in 1888 he was already 41, a sugar refiner and a “bachelor”, not a widower, so Freda may be “Friederike Wilhelmine Dorothee Siegener Klein”, christened 21 Dec 1875 at Bremen, the illegitimate daughter of Louise Elise Marie Siegener Klein.  There are three other Bremen birth records with parents Friederike Louise Kleine (or Friederike Keine) and Christian Friedrich Westphahl, but none for Friedericke.

Freda arrived in the UK about 1881-82 but wasn't on the 1891 census, so may have returned with Henry to introduce her to his sister in Germany that year, before they were married, but I cant find any Immigration record on Ancestry.co.uk.  Her father however was in Liverpool in 1891.

Married Henry (28-Feb-1892) in Liverpool, Lancashire while living a 2 Gt Nelson Street.  Freda used to work in service in a Big House in Liverpool when she was first married.

Fred also worked part-time as a carer for Mrs Lindley, a cripple in a wheel-chair, at Cottingly Cliff, Bingley.  She was a smart, thin lady.  Her husband was some form of business man.

She (and Henry) were recorded as German subjects on the 1901 census, and later, during WW2, there was concern in the family that they may be interned for the duration of the war.

In 1911, "Fridericka" and Henry (42 & 41) had been married 19 years and were living at 56 Mossman Street, Windhill, Shipley with son Harry (18), born Liverpool. 1867 - 1950 Johann (Henry) Peter Heinrich Dittmer 82 82 Henry is possibly adopted, and the son of Johann Heinrich's first son George Heinrich Christoph who died young in 1871, aghed 32.  This would also explain his sister Dorothee.

17 Aug 1867, Johann Peter Heinrich Dittmer (or Henry), the son of Henry a farmer was born in Diersbüttel, Rehlingen, Germany and went to school at Rehlingen (a 40 minute walk).

In 1874, when Johann Heinrich Christoph Dittmer married Magdalena Heuer, Johan’s father was also Johann Heinrich, farmer (deceased), so Chris and Henry are very likely to be brothers.

In 1886, Henry arrived in the UK from Germany, probably travelling from Hanover to Hull.  There is a Heinrich Dittmer arrived at Hull 12 Aug 1854 on the Britannia from Hamburg, but this Heinrich was a ship's cook.  Another Heinrich arrived at Hull from Hamburg in 1887, but this Heinrich appears to have continued his journey to the USA.

Christian Westpfahl and Sophia Duncacke had come to Liverpool about 1882 but only married in Liverpool March 1888.  The 1883 birth records for daughter Bertha shows he had already married Sophia, presumably in Germany before he came to England.  Friederike Westphal who Henry was to marry in 1892 was his landlord’s daughter, but she wasn’t in England in 1891 at the time of the census.

In 1891, Henry Dittmer (23 and single) and Peter Gellerson (47) from Hanover were lodging at 89 Opic Street, North Everton, Liverpool.  The head of house was Christian Westpfahl and his wife Sophia (46 & 39) and daughters Betha (8) and Merri (5).  Both men were labourers at the sugar refinery; hard, hot and sometimes dangerous work!

28 Feb 1892, Henry Dittmer (24), son of Henry a farmer, married Friedericke Westphal (22), daughter of Christian Westphal a sugar refiner at All Saints, Liverpool.  Both were living a 2 Great Nelson Street.  Their marriage witnesses were Charles and Bertha Heinz. 

Ather they married Henry and Freda lived at Opic Street, North Everton, Liverpool.

In 1893, the family were living at 104 Opic Street, North Everton when Harry was born. 

In 1894, Henry was listed in Kelly's directory as a "Sugar Boiler", living at 104 Opic Street, South Side.

In 1897, the family were living at 104 Opic Street when son Harry started school at St Peter's COE School, Sackville Street, Everton, aged 4.

About 1901 Henry returned to Germany for 2 weeks to visit his sister (her name not disclosed) in Diersbuttel, Germany (which is also where Henry went to public school).

In 1901, Henry and Friederike (33 & 31) were living at 4 Brunswick Road, Drypool, Hull, Yorkshire with their son Harry (aged 8).  Henry was a labourer at the Oil Mill (probably the historic Isis Oil Mill and Silo at Morley Street next to the River Hull).

In 1911, Henry and Frederika (aged 42 & 41 and both German subjects) and were living with their son Harry (18) at 56 Mossman Street, Windhill, Shipley, Yorkshire.  They had been married 19 years and only had the one child.  Henry was a labourer on a Sewage Farm for the municipal corporation.

Around 1914 to 1918, during WW1, Henry was interned on the Isle-of-Man.

In 1921, Henry and Fredericka were at Idle, North Bierley, West Yorkshire.

In April 1927, after the war and living in the UK for 41 years, Henry applied to be a UK citizen.

In Sep 1939, Henry (DOB 17 Aug 1865), a retired Grease Boiler, and Friederike D (DOB 15 Feb 1870) were living at No.6 Doctor Lane, Idle.  This was a small stone terraced house with a shared WC at the end of the terrace. Freda died 20 Oct (just after the register was taken).

In 1939, after Freda’s death, my mother recalls that Henry and son Harry came to live in Devonshire Road, Upton for a while.  However, there wasn’t much space for him there so he went to live in lodgings at Glebe Park Rd (near Arrowe Park) for a while

About 1942 Henry moved to 34 Bankburn-Road, Tuebrook where he lived with some Dittmer relatives, possibly two old aunts.  My own DNA confirms we are related to the Liverpool Dittmer family.

30 July 1950 Peter Henry Dittmer (otherwise Henry) of 34 Bankburn-Road, Tuebrook, Liverpool 13 died at 42 Belmont Road, Liverpool 6.  He left his estate of £231 to his son "Harry Dittmer (the elder) engineer".

 Marriage (a child) 2nd Marriage (1920) ■No more children Widowed (two children) 1st Marriage (1907, Birkenhead) ■No more children Engagement and separation 2013 ■No more children Divorce (two children) 21-May-2017 ■No more children Marriage (two children) 9 June 2018 ■No more children Engagement and cohabitation (two children) 24 Aug 2024 Marriage 1940 (Birkenhead) Marriage (two children) 1942 (Ormskirk) ■No more children Marriage (a child) 1971 (Accrington) +Possibly more children Marriage (five children) 18 Aug 1892 (Hoylake) ■No more children Marriage 1933 ■No more children Lives with: In 1939, Charles Hawkes was a Journalist, living at 33 Devonshire Road, Upton with his (assumed) son Eric (and May) Hawkes. Lives with: in 1942, George Edward Rogerson was living at 33 Devonshire when he died, the home of Eric and May Hawkes 1885 - 1963 Arthur Thomas Hamer 78 78 Arthurs parents were Francis Hamer and Ann Rawlings (married Ludlow 14 Apr 1875).

In 1911, Arthur and Catherine Hamer (26 & 31) were at 13 Clarendon Street. Birkenhead with sons Peter Leonard (2) and Arthur Frances (6mo).

In 1939 at 1 Devonshire Road, Upton, born 1 March 1885, Inspector for NSPCC. 1896 - 1949 Bessie Rogerson 53 53 Peggy's mother Bessy was blind in later life.

Bessie was was 14 in 1911, living at 36 Walker Street, Hoylake

Bessie was born in Hoylake (MMN Jackson), daughter of George Edward Rogerson and Maggie Jackson from Hoylake who married in 1892. She had three sisters Maggie (b.1893), Amy (b.1898) and May (b.1904), plus two that died as infants.

In 1901, parents George Regerson (a House painter from Manchester) and Maggie (34 & 31) were at 36 Walker Street, Hoylake with Bessie (4), Amy (2) and Elsie (3 mo)

In 1939, Arthur and Bessie Hamer were a 1 Devonshire Road, Upton with their daughter Margaret B (corrected to E) Hamer.

CKD has a high 96cM DNA match with Ian Roberts, grandson of  Ethel Rogerson, possibly Bessie's cousin.  Ethel married Earnest Guntrip at Chorlton in 1910.  Ethel and Ernest (both 21, born Manchester) were boarding in Southborough, Kent in 1911.

Bessie's father George Edward Rogerson was living at Fairfield, 33 Devonshire Road, Upton  when he died 13 Nov 1942. 1879 - 1919 Catherine Walsh 40 40 1908 - 1997 Peter Leonard Hamer 88 88 Peter was in the British Army

In Q2/1940, Peter L Hamer married Elsie A Melling at Birkenhead 1910 - 1997 Arthur Francis Hamer 87 87 Arthur was in the British Navy.  He gained the RN Long Service awars (1940-1944) on the Ship Pyramus.

In 1942, Arthur married Lillian Heskith at Ormskirk, Lancashire Richard (Richie) Hugo Leo McEnery Laura Sarah Smith Martha Dittmer Ricky Chaplin Reba Margaret Dittmer Mari F Rndeberg ~1910 Elsie A Melling 1910 Lilian Ellen Heskith Jennifer Ann Hamer Wendy Lilian Hamer Philip John Rawcliffe Hamish John Rawcliffe 1865 - 1942 George Edward Rogerson 76 76 In 1911, George and Maggie (45 & 41) were living at 36 Walker Street, Hoylake with Bessie, Amy and May (14, 12 & 6) two children had died.

In 1938, George is listed in Kelly's Directory living at 3 Heygarth Drive, Greasby, Wirral.

In 1939, George E Rogerson (b. 24 Dec 1865) a retired painter and Maggie (b. 26 Feb 1870) are at 3 Heygarth Drive, Hoylake with Amy Johnson (their married daughter)

13 Nov 1942, George died, abode registered as 33 Devonshire Road, the home of his son Eric Hawkes.  Administration of Margaret Rogerson Widow (who is this?) 1870 Maggie Jackson 1893 - 1893 Maggie Rogerson 1898 Amy Rogerson Amy was 12 in 1911, living at 36 Walker Street, Hoylake 1901 - 1901 Elsie Rogerson Elsie was one of the two daughters that had died by 1911 1905 - 1989 May Rogerson 84 84 May was 6 in 1911, living at 36 Walker Street, Hoylake 1910 - 1993 Eric George Joseph Hawkes 82 82
In 1911, Eric George Joseph Hawkes was with his parents at 36 Cressington Avenue, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, aged 3 months.

4 Jul 1993, Eric George Joseph Hawkes of flat 20, Aughton Court, Church Road, Upton died (probate £142,926). 1867 Charles Fairland Hawkes Eric was the son of Charles Fairland Hawkes and Amy.

In 1911, Eric George Joseph Hawkes was with his parents at 36 Cressington Avenue, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead, aged 3 months.

In 1939, Charles Hawkes, Widow, was a Journalist, living at 33 Devonshire Road, Upton with his son Eric and May Hawkes. Margo Emmy Dittmer- Chaplin Casper James Randeberg (Dittmer) Imogen Maeve Dittmer- Chaplin Max Henry Randeberg (Dittmer) Created using GenoPro® Click for details.