Janice Carrera's paternal great grandfather Johann Georg Michael was the first Rothermel to enter and settle in Great Britain from Germany in or around 1876. His two brothers Johann Georg and Frederick Martin joined him to run butcher's shops in Wellingborough Northants.
From the 1840s most people from the area caught a boat up the Rhine and sailed out of Hamburg and Bremen. While many ships, especially those from Bremen, made their way direct to the U.S.A., indirect routes, sailing from Hamburg to east-coast British ports and then by rail to Liverpool remained important throughout the nineteenth century. Clearly, crossing the Atlantic via England meant a short stop in the country. Did any of the transmigrants decide to settle? This seems difficult to deny. In Liverpool, for instance, some emigrants who found work in the city decided to remain rather than to sail on to North America or Australia.
This happened in our family when John George Michael and John George stayed because their younger brother Frederick was sick - he died in 1878 of Peritonitis..
This is quite an historic find !
A book has been published "German Pork Butchers in Britain" and is available from
the Anglo German Family History Society
An excellent article on German Pork Butchers in England
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1911 UK CENSUS
Naomi Rothermel widow 56
Barbara Lena single 26 Confidential Clerk Disengaged
Reenie single 23 button Holer
Olga single 21 Button Holer
Julius Rothermel Watson grandson 2 born Bradford Yorks
Living 14 Vivian Road Wellingborough
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