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« on: Thursday 07 November 19 04:32 GMT (UK) »
I have done a fair bit of work on this.
I have a record of John's birth certificate and his age on his marriage certificate is incorrect. He was born in 1848. The link that is quoted above is definately correct because those are his parents on the birth record. He was not born Johann either. It seemed that his parents gave him an anglocised name.
His dad was Johann Ernst Riemer and mother wrote her maiden name on the birth certificate as "Susanna Bieber". John had 5 sisters and three brothers that I could find birth records of. From oldest to youngest Charlotte Dorothea, Johann Heinrich, Johann Ernst, Maria Amalie, Carl Gottlieb, Johanne Friederike, Auguste Wilhelmine, Mathilde Therese and then John William was the youngest.
The father, Johann Ernst Riemer was born in 1799 in Pomeria and died in Memel in 1886. I couldnt find a birth location for the mother.