George Henry Wirsing

Born: Cal 1821, , , Germany
Marriage (1): Helen Frances Middleton on 3 Dec 1850 in Goverment School, Durban, Natal, South Africa
Marriage (2): Alice Agnes Ayres on 4 Oct 1884 in St. Cyprian's Church, Durban, Natal, South Africa
Died: 27 Sep 1891 aged about 70
Buried: Durban, Natal, South Africa

Family Links

Spouses/Children:

1. Helen Frances Middleton

(+ Shows person has known children.)

bullet Birth Notes:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11110-95374-78?cc=2063749

and

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1530846

And

http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1587/31160_A002116-00055/54027?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dgeorge%2bhenry%26gsfn_x%3dNN_NIC%26gsln%3dwirsing%26gsln_x%3dNS_NP%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d11%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d54027%26recoff%3d6%2b7%2b8%26db%3dHO2AlienArrivals%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

bullet Death Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1530846

And

Copy of his wife, Alice Wirsing's, Death Notice dated 6 Nov 1918 in RAB's possession. His death is recorded on 27 Sep 1891.

bullet Burial Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1530846

bullet Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12402-150839-14?cc=2063749

• Occupation. Merchant.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11110-95374-78?cc=2063749

Merchant.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12402-150839-14?cc=2063749

Merchant in West Street.
http://molegenealogy.blogspot.com/2014/01/burgess-roll-durban-185657.htmll

He had at least two partnerships.
Wirsing and Acutt
And
Middleton and Wirsing. His partner was William Henry Middleton who is probably a brother of his first wife.
William Henry Middleton (1825'961911), a Durban merchant, was on the building committee for St Paul's. At about this time he went farming at Snaresbrook in the present Northdene area, growing coffee, arrowroot, tobacco, groundnuts, and later sugar. Like many others, he was a casualty of the economic difficulties in the mid-1860s, and had to sell Snaresbrook. A couple of years as the station-master at Umgeni, Durban followed, then in 1871 he moved to the Orange Free State. Here he recouped his finances enough to retire in 1880
http://www.natalia.org.za/Files/32/Natalia%2032%20pp%202-9%20C.pdf

And

Merchant.
https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVS4-17MG

• General Comment. Nominated as a town councillor with John Miilar.
"Hence it was only at the end of June 1854, that Ward meetings were held in town (D'Urban) to consider the position and to nominate fit and proper persons as representatives. Ultimately the following were nominated for election as Councillors: Ward 1: GC Cato, A McArthur, J Blackwood

Ward 2 : J Millar, GH Wirsing, J Brickhill W Smerdon Ward 3: R Harwin, AW Evans Ward 4 : WH Savory, R Raw, C Johnston, F Harvey , Edward Snell and William Hartley.
http://www.fad.co.za/2014/01/29/william-hartley-an-early-pioneer/

• Children. He almost certainly had a son form his first marriage.
Walter Middleton Wirsing who died about 1914.
NAAIRS record.
He married Ellen Martin on 22 May 1907
WIRSING-MARTIN-On May 22, at Kimberley, Walter Middleton Wirsing, of Mafeking, to Ellen (Nellie), eldest daughter of the late Rev. Henry Martin, M.A., formerly Vicar of St. Nicholas with St. Leonard's, Bristol.
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA-IMMIGRANTS-BRITISH/2014-05/1399396192

He had no children with Alice Ayres. Copy of his wife, Alice Wirsing's, Death Notice dated 6 Nov 1918 in RAB's possession.

• Travel. He came to Natal in 1849

And

Alien Arrival London in 1843.
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1587/31160_A002116-00055/54027?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dgeorge%2bhenry%26gsfn_x%3dNN_NIC%26gsln%3dwirsing%26gsln_x%3dNS_NP%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d11%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d54027%26recoff%3d6%2b7%2b8%26db%3dHO2AlienArrivals%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d1&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

And

Alien Arrival in 1843 from Frankfort am Main.
http://interactive.ancestry.co.uk/1587/31161_A003028-00215/206245?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.co.uk%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3frank%3d1%26new%3d1%26MSAV%3d1%26msT%3d1%26gss%3dangs-g%26gsfn%3dgeorge%2bhenry%26gsfn_x%3dNN_NIC%26gsln%3dwirsing%26gsln_x%3dNS_NP%26cpxt%3d1%26catBucket%3drstp%26uidh%3diof%26cp%3d11%26pcat%3dROOT_CATEGORY%26h%3d206245%26recoff%3d6%2b7%2b8%26db%3dHO2AlienArrivals%26indiv%3d1%26ml_rpos%3d2&ssrc=&backlabel=ReturnRecord

• Obituary. Mr. George Henry Wirsing, an old and much-respected Natal Colonist, died at Durban the other day. He went to South Africa from Germany in 1849, and established the firm of Middleton &c Wirsing, at Durban, in that year. He confined his attention chiefly ! to commercial affairs, but his death is generally regarded as a great loss to the Colony.
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/35681685/

• General Comment. Copy of his wife, Alice Wirsing's, Death Notice dated 6 Nov 1918 in RAB's possession.

• General Comment. GISA SAF Kombo CD page 490.

George married Helen Frances Middleton on 3 Dec 1850 in Goverment School, Durban, Natal, South Africa. (Helen Frances Middleton was born before 3 Dec 1829.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11110-95374-78?cc=2063749
Witnesses:-
Mary Pattison
Jno R Goodricke
Wm. H. Acutt

And

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/SOUTH-AFRICA/2009-08/1249190382

George next married Alice Agnes Ayres, daughter of John Ayres and Martha Duchesne, on 4 Oct 1884 in St. Cyprian's Church, Durban, Natal, South Africa. (Alice Agnes Ayres was born on 27 Sep 1839 in , Hertfordshire, England, christened on 20 Feb 1840 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, died on 3 Dec 1918 in Durban, Natal, South Africa and was buried in Durban, Natal, South Africa.)

bullet Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-12402-150839-14?cc=2063749
Witnesses:-
C.Des Garde
Ellen Lloyd

• General Comment. GISA SAF Kombo CD page 490.

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