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Christopher Nisbet (1795 - 1857)

Christopher Nisbet
Born in Ancroft, Northumberland, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 6 Sep 1839 in East Prussia, Prussia, German Empiremap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 62 in Danzig, West Prussia, Prussia, German Empiremap
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Biography

Christopher Nisbet was born in 1795 in Ancroft, Northumberland, England, son of John Nisbet ( –1808). Christopher was baptized 28 Jun 1795 in Ancroft, Northumberland, England. [1] Christopher, son of John Nesbit & Isabella Urpeth, was baptised on 28 Jun 1795 in Ancroft, Northumberland, England.[2]

He married 6 Sep 1839 East Prussia[3] to Mariana Boehm 1817–1902. Christopher Nisbet's German wife, Marianne Boehm, came of a family that for several generations had owned wide estates in both East and West Prussia, also vessels that traded as far as Mediterranean ports.

He passed away 6 Feb 1857 and was buried 11 Feb 1857 Marienkirche, Deutschland (Germany) [4]

Children

Research Notes

Nephew Christopher Nisbet in Danzig for the purpose of learning his business there. The elder Nisbet was an important citizen of Danzig being a large grain merchant in the Baltic. He married a Miss Boehm and had three sons and three daughters. John and Fritz went out to the United States, Christopher to Germany. One of the daughters, " Nanny " Nisbet, became Almoner to the Empress Friedrich in Berlin, another married the Baron von Budenoch and the third, Henrietta, married Herr Aschmann

He is claimed to be a cadet of the Chieftain family of the Nisbet Scotch-English border Clan, with a claimed incorrect recorded family tree reaching back to the tenth century.

Sources

  • Scots in Poland, Russia and the Baltic States: 1550-1850, Volume 1
  • Nisbet and Marye Family Papers, 1874-1925
  1. Baptism 28 Jun 1795 Ancroft, Northumberland, England Christopher Nesbit son of John Nesbit and Isabella Urpeth FHL Film Number: 94986
  2. Baptism: "England Births & Baptisms 1538-1975"

    Christopher Nesbit baptism on 28 Jun 1795, son of John Nesbit & Isabella Urpeth, in Ancroft, Northumberland, England.
  3. Heirat (Marriage) Kaliningrad 6 Sep 1839 East Prussia, Ost Preussen, Deutschland (Germany) Christopher Nisbeth 44 to Mariane Boehm Evangelische Kirche Königsberg (Ostpreußen) Film Number:71643
  4. Beerdigung (Burial) Christopher Nisbet 62 died 6 Feb 1857 and was buried 11 Feb 1857 Marienkirche, Deutschland (Germany) husband of Marianne Evangelische Kirche. Marienkirche Danzig Gdansk FHL FILM NUMBER: 362971 Page 27
  5. Baptism 26 Mar 1841 Sankt Marien Kirche, Danzig Stadt, Westpreussen, Prussia John son of Christopher Nisbet] and Marianne von Boehm Nisbet. FHL Film Number742669, 742670, 742671




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