Dreyer family

When Johann Caspar Dreier (formerly Dreyer, b.1758) married Dorothea Adelheid Uhthoff (b.1774) in 1797 the Dreiers were a relatively wealthy merchant family from Bremen in northern Germany. The couple had four sons and a daughter who died at the age of eleven.

The eldest son Gustav Theodor Dreier (b.1803), married to Thaddea Henriette Schacht (b.1806), was also a merchant in Bremen but got into financial troubles during the the 1850s. The second son, Julius Alexander Dreier (b.1805), worked as a pastor in Mittelsbueren and Grambke (today part of the state Bremen), and married first Metta Lucie Wilhelmine Noltenius (b.1800) who died five years after the marriage and then Margaretha (Meta) Catharina Lampe (b.1813). The third son, August Ferdinand Dreier (b.1808), who became a merchant in Bremen also married twice: Sophie Friederike Elisabeth (Betty) Focke (b.1808) in 1837 and 32 years later Margaretha (Meta) Thibetha Meinertzhagen (b.1814). The youngest son, Heinrich Eduard Dreier (b.1811), became a pastor but had some problems in securing an appropriate rectorate. After working in Lehe, at the House of Emigrants (Auswandererhaus) in Bremerhaven and Blumenthal he finally succeded in getting a post in Neuenkirchen near Farge (today part of the state Bremen), where he lived until his death with his wife Margaretha (Meta) Thibetha Hotzen (b.1817).

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