Hello, I am new to this but I am trying to trace my German ancestors who were Pork Butchers and had a business in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Henry Harry Haffner is shown on the 1891 census working for Frederick Frank in Peterbrough, aged 17 born in Wurttenbury, Germany and I believe that he is my Great Grandfather. He married Martha Munton in Boston, Lincolnshire in 1900 and there was a Haffners Pork Butchers in Little Church St, Wisbech. Henry and Martha divorced in 1910,when I think the business was sold to G.W. Frank who are still going strong on the Market Place in Wisbech. Henry shows up at an address in Barnsley in the 1911 census, Martha starts her own business at a neighbouring property still in Little Church St Wisbech, moving to 2 the Market place sometime after (1919?) until my Father called it a day in 1972 and the business was closed down.
In the 1911 census my Grandfather's sister, Hilda Harriet Haffner age 7 is shown with Leonard Cantenwine at Bridgefoot Boston and listed as his niece.
I have read through some of the posts here and one of them states that the Cantenwine brothers Mother was a Susanna Elisabetha Hohenrein, my grandfathers name was Henry Harry Hohenrein Haffner but he died in 1943 and my Father does not remember him at all, my Grandmother quickly remarried, My Father was sent to boarding school and the Haffner side of the family kept very quiet from him. Any help would be appreciated, thanks, Richard Haffner, New Zealand.
