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Offline greyingrey

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Re: Dreher family - Derby
« Reply #9 on: Friday 03 July 15 11:53 BST (UK) »
I will get back to the two posters here individually, but I shall be rather short of time over the next few days, so I'm just posting here so that they know I'm still on the case, as I haven't really investigated the Drehers sideways....have just looked at Christian. My mother has confirmed that the Salford relatives were Drehers. One of Christian's sons became a pork butcher, but then he married a pork butcher's daughter & Christian's best friend in Nottingham was a German pork butcher. Mmmmmm......

I've always wondered why Christian & his wife left their adult children & Christian's brothers behind in Liverpool & moved to Nottm (apart from the football). Nottm had, in fact, a thriving & growing German community working in the lace factories, so maybe he thought there would be new opportunities for his family....maybe as told to him by his relative, John, in Derby. If we could only find them in the German records, we'd be able to find out if they were related.

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Re: Dreher family - Derby
« Reply #10 on: Monday 18 April 22 23:08 BST (UK) »
I am Kevin Dreher's daughter as mentioned above by Steve Dolman. He was born in Derby and suffered extreme poverty. The family would never tell us why they left Bavaria.

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Re: Dreher family - Derby
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 03 April 25 20:44 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Jim Greig on Thursday 08 July 10 16:02 BST (UK)
Does anyone have any connections or interest in the Dreher family of Derby c1830's to 1880's?

John Dreher is originally described as a pork butcher from Foreign Parts. He married Elizabeth Wathall in 1835. His son Thomas Dreher worked as a cab driver/groom and married Emma Ball in 1873. By 1880 he was in Salford/Manchester where his daughter Eliza married Samuel Walker in 1902.

Samuel and Eliza are my maternal great grandparents.

I would like to learn more about the Dreher family as I lose my branch in the early 1900's.

Hey! I’ve just come across this as I’ve been digging into my family tree.

Thomas Dreher & Emma Ball are my second great-grandparents on my mother’s side. She grew up in Longsite but majority of that side were Manchester & from what I can see further across too!

Thomas & Emma had another son called Thomas (who married Emma Dixon), who had another son called Thomas (who married Ida Bateman) who is my grandfather.
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