We have very little information on my great-grandfather John ZERB.
My mother never met him and does not remember hearing much about him.
She thought he had immigrated to England, Sheffield to be exact from
Prussia.
The 1881 Census for Sheffield shows him living at 41 Rockingham
Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England age 35 (b. 1846) in
Hesse-Darmstadt, in what is now Germany.
He is married to Christiana age 30, born Hesse-Darmstadt (1851).
My grandmother's death certificate gives her maiden name as WILD and
from the 1881 census it appears that she was married before to someone
by the name of Poskitt in approx. 1874-75 as there is a Mary Ann
POSKITT (ZERB) stepdaughter born in Dodworth, Yorkshire in 1876.
I know this isn't much information to go on. There were no sons born
to this couple and therefore there is not a ZERB connection to the
present day.
If you have any suggestions or information I would be glad to hear
from you.
Jean Marlatt
Caledon, Ontario