Godefridus Ermen, Colonel

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Gottfried Ermen was baptized on November 13, 1765 in Bergeijk (also Bergeyk) and died on July 24, 1814 in Hachenburg. He acquired on October 6, 1803 in Hertogenbosch, the capital of North Brabant, the civil rights and was since 1810 citizen and innkeeper (Schankwirt) in Hachenburg. On April 13, 1796 he married in Hachenburg Johannetta Philippina (Elisabetha Adriana) Bertram.

Died April 28, 1842, buried on May 1, 1842 Ermen Johanna Antonette born May 31, 1773, resident of Hachenburg, daughter of Albert Bertram, merchant, and Elisabeth Fischer both deceased to Hachenburg, widowed since July 24, 1814. She leaves 5 Sons, 2 daughters. - name varies between the different first names -

According to Johanna Antonette Bertram was the daughter of Johann Albert Bertram, time writer in 1769/70 and Mayor 1791 (Wilhelm Söhngen). Her brother Peter Jakob Franz Bertram, born on September 20, 1779 in Hachenburg, wine merchant and politician in the Duchy of Nassau, residing in Wiesbaden, was the father of Franz Bertram and Philipp Anton Maria Bertram, the latter since 1892 honorary citizen Hachenburgs.

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Three brothers came from Germany to Manchester between 1825 and 1835. Manchester was a leading city in the cotton trade in those times, and the brothers came to create a business in Manchester for themselves. They did so successfully. The brothers were Peter Ermen, Anthony Ermen, and Godfrey Ermen. (These were the names they used in England, their respective German names being Petrus Albertus, Godefridus Antonius, and Petrus Jacobus Godefridus.).

The three brothers had, at one time or another, mills and/or offices in Manchester and surrounding towns -- Pendlebury, Pendleton, and Eccles. (The latter three locations all now part of Salford.) They also came into partnership with Friedrich Engels Snr., the father of the Karl Marx collaborator of the same name, in some of these ventures. Friedrich Engels Jnr. came to work in Manchester for the joint business between 1842 and 1844, and then again from 1850 to 1869. On the death of his father, he himself in fact became a partner in the business (1864-1869).

The Ermen family, Godfrey in particular, had a tremendous influence on the industrial growth of Manchester, thousands of people being employed in their mills. These materials have been assembled here together so that scholars working on the story of industrial Manchester can have access to them

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