The German G. A. Fischer and "his" Turaco … (1 Viewer)

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Thanks again, Paul!

Now it all make better sense (... also to a slow-witted one, like me).

 

[l_raty]

He married in Cornelia Petronella Gersen in Bandjermasin in 1876 which was in the Amoenthey Regency.

Here is a source documenting this marriage (which took place on 22 Mar 1876) :

Digitalisierte Sammlungen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin​

I can't tell if this was the same person or a namesake but, less than two years later, on 22 Dec 1877, a Cornelia Petronella Gersen also married another guy in Batavia :

https://dfg-viewer.de/show?tx_dlf[double]=0&tx_dlf[id]=https://www.zvdd.de/dms/metsresolver/?PPN=PPN777217058&tx_dlf[page]=207&cHash=8756bd8d0230a00b747dbda61fce313a​

...from whom she had 5 children :

Family tree of Cornelia Petronella GERSEN (1)​

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(If the same person, this would imply a quite quick divorce from George Fischer... This Cornelia Petronella Gersen was born in Milligen in 1851. She returned to the Netherlands with four children in late 1882 or 1883, and gave birth to the fifth one shortly afterwards in Arnhem.)

(Nota -- Currently, in Familysearch (log-in required), George Fischer's Cornelia Petronella Gersen is given as born in Milligen in 1851, and as having given birth to a daughter in Jatinegara on 3 Jun 1887. Surely this cannot be correct -- on 23 May 1887, the Cornelia Petronella Gersen born in Milligen in 1851 was residing in Nijmegen with her five children : Studiezaal Nijmegen - Bevolkingsregisters van de gemeente Nijmegen, 1850-1890.)

 

[l_raty]

(Nota -- Currently, in Familysearch (log-in required), George Fischer's Cornelia Petronella Gersen is given as born in Milligen in 1851, and as having given birth to a daughter in Jatinegara on 3 Jun 1887. Surely this cannot be correct -- on 23 May 1887, the Cornelia Petronella Gersen born in Milligen in 1851 was residing in Nijmegen with her five children : Studiezaal Nijmegen - Bevolkingsregisters van de gemeente Nijmegen, 1850-1890.)

She was still with him in Nederlandsch Indië in 1887 : Gevonden in Delpher - Bataviaasch nieuwsblad (as "C. P. FISCHER - Gersen").

 

[PScofield]

So George Fischer's second wife Cornelia Petronella Gersen (b.1848, Alkmaar) was the niece of Gerrit Jan Gersen (1826 - 1877) Title: oud-kontroleur van Tjamba, later Resident van de Zuid- en Oosterafdeeling van Borneo). He was also active as a plant collector. Several plants are named after him, including Phalaenopsis x gersenii, a natural hybrid orchid native to Borneo and Sumatra. After Cornelia Petronella's father Adrianus's death she came out to Indonesia to keep house for her rather sick bachelor uncle and perhaps find a husband. Following George Fischer's first wife's death leaving several children Cornelia married him and was active as step-mother. (There are notices in the newspapers announcing her daughter's wedding etc..). After nearly 10 years marriage George and Cornelia had a child Georgine however she died in infancy. By the mid 1890s Cornelia had reverted to her maiden name presumably divorced and George married his third wife in 1894.

 

[Björn Bergenholtz]

Thus, no longer only circumstantial ...

This clearly puts the dedicatee behind Fischer's/Red-eared Fruit-Dove (Leucotreron/Ramphiculus) Ptilinopus fischeri BRÜGGEMANN 1876: "... Herrn Dr. George Fischer [1845–1908], Stabs-artz in Amoenthey, ..." (even more) into a context of Natural History, and collecting efforts.

Thanks guys!