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Frederick William Zurhorst

1834–1907

Merchant and poultry breeder in Ireland. Premises at 17 St Andrew’s Street, Dublin; residence at Belleville, Donnybrook, 1865. Leading breeder of white Cochin poultry. Died in Lee, Kent.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1841 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/324/7/10/15), 1881 (RG11/78/66/2), 1901 (RG13/547/116/6)

Correspondence vol. 13, letter from W. B. Tegetmeier, 10 April 1865

England & Wales, national probate calendar (index of wills and administrations), 1858–1995 (Ancestry.com, accessed 28 September 2022)

Essex, England, Church of England births and baptisms, 1813–1918 (Ancestry.co.uk, accessed 7 August 2019)

Thom’s Irish almanac 1865

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Thom’s Irish almanac: Thom’s Irish almanac and official directory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Dublin: Alexander Thom. 1846–80.

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