Adam Scherer, SV/PROG

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Adam Scherer, SV/PROG

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Mettenheim, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
Death: May 12, 1880 (59-60)
Eastern Cape, South Africa
Place of Burial: King William's Town
Immediate Family:

Son of NN Scherer and NN Scherer
Husband of Marie Scherer and Anna Marie Scherer, SM/PROG
Father of Adam Scherer, b1; Anna Marie Louisa Kockjeu (later Koch); Conrad Scherer, b3; Ludwig Scherer, b4 and Johannes Scherer, b5
Brother of Alfred Rudolph Scherer

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About Adam Scherer, SV/PROG

The "German Settler" Durrheim Family in South Africa by Erleen T West (nee Durrheim) researched 2009/2011

Caroline married Hugo Ludwig Scherer. He was the son of german immigrants Ludwig Scherer and Wilhelmine Otto. Ludwig was a baby when his parents Adam Scherer (1832-1880) & Marie Ann Morgenstern immigrated to South Africa from Germany aboard the La Rochelle, together with his brother Alfred Rudolph. They settled in Breidbach.

In South Africa they had six more children - Hulda Wilhelmine who married Thomas Petzer, Meta Helene Friedericke married August Wilhelm Durrheim (son of Carl August Durrheim & Johanna Ninnemann), Adam Friedrich Paul, Anna Maria Margarita married Ernest Arthur Pattison, Amanda Rose Rebecca married Edwind H Radue & Arthur Walter Samuel die 1924 (unmarried).

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Adam Scherer, SV/PROG's Timeline

1820
1820
Mettenheim, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany
1848
December 7, 1848
Germany
1851
1851
Germany
1853
1853
1857
1857
Alsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
1859
1859
1880
May 12, 1880
Age 60
Eastern Cape, South Africa
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Main Cemetery, King William's Town