Well Done!
Have just found an obit for him that says he was born in Dunedin on 12th November 1864 - so if they went on that ship, maybe they did not register him. He would have been a couple of days old before the ship sailed. This made it easy to work out a bit more about Joseph:
The Times, Tuesday, Feb 16, 1954; pg. 8
PM
Added later: RG11/918 Tonbridge, where he is said to have been educated in that obit.
He is in the 1881 Census down as son of widowed mother Harriet aged 57 (Inccorect transcription of his initials to S C) Her occ. is given as Annuitant. She is born Clapham Surrey.
Harriet has also two daughters:
Mary Harriet, aged 23, Born Munich Bavaria, British subject. Schoolteacher.
Eva Emma Warner aged 33 Scholmistress born Clifton Somerset.
There is also a lodger, Julia Hutchings, Prof.of Music.
Added later still: RG/9/414
Joseph Harriet and family in 1861:
Joseph Werner 43 Naturalised British Subject born Germany Merchant (?) to the Russian Steam Navigation and Traiding Company.Harriett Werner 38 as before
Children:
Josaphine 18 Born France (1851 gives Paris)
Eva Werner 14 born Clifton Glos.
Ferdinand G 11 Born Germany (1851 gives Hamburg)
Mary 5 Born Germany
Alice 1 Born France.
Also in house: Address 7 the Grove, Lee Kent.
Marie Fesca 56 Companion born Germany
Jane Taylor 63 mother-in-law born Middlesex
Theresa Beckway 23 Servant born germany
Bertha Bergst 22 ditto
The Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company of Odessa was one of the biggest joint stock steamship companies in Imperial Russia. It was established in 1856 and ceased to exist in 1918 due to nationalization after the revolution in Russia.
Tonbidge school register:
Werner, Edward Theodore Chalmers. 1874-82. Third and youngest
son of Joseph Werner. 6. 1864. Passed a competitive exami-
nation at London University for a Student Interpretership in
China, Japan, and Siam, 1884. Appointed to H.M. Consular
Service in China. Stationed at Pekin.
Werner, John Eeinhardt. 1874-9. Second son of Joseph Werner.
h. 1862. Formerly an engineer in the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's service. Went out in the Spring of 1886 as an
engineer to the Independent State of the Congo, Africa.
Third son accounted for By S-l in post 10 above!
in 1851 Harriet and children were living in Kensington at No 15 Bedford Place. 2 Servants both English. Harriet has a possible death reg for 1904.
Joseph is noted as absent, working in the wine trade in Germany
Photos of ECTW wife and adopted daughter:
http://www.midnightinpeking.com/downloads/cast-of-characters/probably from the book you mentioned.
Pretty interesting family, all in all!
