I am continuing my quest for information about Louis GOLDMANN who retired to Frankfurt in Germany after having been involved in the running of the Burghersdorp branch of the MOSENTHAL business, as well as being a business associate of my relative Henry BERGMANN(1831-66) in Aliwal North.

Louis came to South Africa from somewhere in Germany. I would like to know exactly where he came from!

I have had another look at Richard GOLDMANN's
autobiographical work, "A South African remembers",
and have gleaned the following information (Richard
was born 1861 in Burghersdorp):

1. His father, whose name is not given in the book,
left "eastern Germany" in 1848 and,at the suggestion
of relatives and their connections, went out to South
Africa to engage in mercantile business in
Burghersdorp.

2. His family left Burghersdorp in 1876, and went to
settle in Breslau in for a few years before moving to
Freiburg in the Black Forest.

3. Richard had a sister Alice and brothers Edwin,
Charles Sydney and Alfred. Edwin was a famous doctor
in Freiburg, and helped to discover the blood/brain
barrier.

4. Richard married the widow of the Count de SARIGNY
in about 1907. He had met the Count and his wife many
years earlier, in 1887, in Middelburg in the Cape (he had relatives who lived in Middelburg - probably the FRIEDLANDER family from Beuthen/Breslau.)

I am still puzzled as to the name of Richard's father. (I suspect that Richard was not a child of Louis as it is known that Louis had a daughter Johanna who is not mentioned in Richard's book.)

I would be very pleased to hear from anyone who has any information about the various GOLDMANN s of Burghersdorp. Any information about the De Sarigny family would also help satisfy my curiosity!

Adam Yamey, London, UK<adamandlopa@yahoo.co.uk>