Hello everyone - My father was George Hertel Peters, whose mother Maud Peters nee Hertel, daughter of Emily Martha Hertel nee Brewer who was married to Alexander Carl Theodor Leopold Hertel 1835-1878 a Prussian mariner who came to England because of Bismark's policies. He sailed a Clipper, possibly for the East India Company, to Australia and the Far East before his vessel, The Minnie, was in collision and foundered on 23 May 1871. All were landed at Falmouth. The Plimsoll Line author G Hertel Peters.
Emily Martha Brewer nee Clark was married to Richard Benjamin Brewer 1809-1854 who came from Cornwall, where there are still many descendants. Do I know you Cornish Bill? JP
When Captain Hertel died shortly after my grandmother, Maud Hertel was born, the children did eventually go to the Asylum for Fatherless children at Reedham in Surrey. Emily Martha Hertel then married again Henry Davison Young and had another son (Harry?).
There are very many artifacts still in existence.
