Christoph Alt, Bannerod, Germany MMFFF
 

Name: CHRISTOPH ALT
Date and place of birth: 5 January, 1783 (probably Hessen Darmstadt, Germany)
Names of parents: Johann Heinrich Alt and Anna Marie Dahmer
Date and place of baptism: Protestant Church, probably somewhere in Hessen Darmstadt, Germany)
Details of each of his or her marriages: 1st marriage person unknown, not at Nieder Moos, Germany. 2nd Marriage 20/11/1817 Nieder Moos, Germany to Anna Margareta Ruhl
Occupation: Farmer and Labourer
Addresses where they lived: Six children were born between 1818 and 1830 at Bannerod, south of Lauterbach in Hessen Darmstadt. They lived under a baronial class system and the oldest son Heinrich b 1818 and Christoph b 1828 were educated and trained as manservants/butlers. It was a very poor area, the farms very small and the winter conditions were very harsh.
Date, place and cause of death: 24 October 1844 at Bannerod
Date and place of burial. October 1844 at Bannerod
Details of will: Unknown
Memorial inscription: Unlikely
(Source of Information: “Christoph Alt of Yass” by Ronald H. Alt, Printed in 1989. Most of the information in the book relates to the family’s life in Australia. Ron Alt is now deceased and so where he obtained the information on the family in Germany, apart from Surviving Military Service Records of Christoph Alt, (born 1828), are not stated and so cannot be verified).