Degenhardt family history

I am researching my Degenhardt forebears.

Christoph Degenhardt came over from Germany on 6th June1859on the ship Caster  age 20 and gave his occupation as 'baker'.

Christoph  married Gertrude, from Germany,  in 1866, and in 1871 they were living in Crowndale Road, St Pancras, Camden Town, London. I think this might now be Gloucester Place (the A41), but I am not sure. They had one servant.  Their two girls (Luice - possibly Louisa - and Emilia Carolina Fredericka) were born in 1866 and 1867, followed by John in 1870 Frederick Charles in 1872 and Christopher in 1877.

St Mary's Rotherhithe, where Christoph and Gertrude married.

By 1881 they had moved to Golborne Gardens, Kensington and had three servants. Christoph was 42, and Gertrudewas about 36. there was a gap between Luisa, aged 14, and the boys, Frederick aged 9 and Christopher aged 4. Walter was born in 1884 when Christopher was 7.

Christoph received his certificate of Naturalisation on 5th December 1887, and in the 1891 census, they are shown as living in Godolphin Road, Hammersmith, Fulham. 1891 is also the year Emilia Carolina married her young German sweetheart, Carl Justus Becker from Tregesa in Germany. the couple went on to have two children, who they named after Emilia's parents, Christopher and Gertrude. By this time,  her brother Frederick was working as as assistant grocer to a cheesemonger , Mr Adams, in Kingsland. He would have earned approx. £30 per annum. Christoph was retired by this time.

Godolphin Road in the 1930s

By 1901 they had moved to Broseley Grove, Lewisham or Sydenham (the boundaries changed continually).  Emilia Carolina and Justus were at this time living in Bellenden Road, Camberwell.

The couple continued to live in Broseley Grove.Christoph died in 1920,and Gertrude died in 1927.

Frederick went on to marry Emily Targett, who had been born in Islington, although her family originally came from Woodminton, near Bower Chalke in Wiltshire. Her father's occupation was listed as 'letter carrier'.

A letter-carrier in 1855

Frederick and Emily had four children, Agnes Elisabeth, born in 1899, Frederick George, born in 1906, and in 1911 they lived in St James Road, Holloway in London. Christoph Wilhelm was born in 1912 and Phyllis Angela was born in 1913.

Fred and Emily Degenhardt with Agnes and George.