Major Carl Albert THIMM, F.R.G.S.

author, bookseller, librarian, publisher

b. Jul-Sep 1855, St. George, Hanover Square, London, England

m. 1st: Sep 1881, St. Giles, London
Annie Helen HAYWOOD
b. Apr-Jun 1858, Derby, Derbyshire
d. Apr-Jun 1931, Lambeth, Age: 73

divorced in 1895

m. 2nd: Apr-Jun 1907, Croydon
Lizzie Louisa LAKE or Hilda Winifred MERRILL

d. Jan-Mar 1932, Lambeth, London, England, age: 76

children:

Helen Marguerite, b. Apr-Jun 1882, St. Giles
(other sources: Rangoon, India), m. Oct-Dec 1903, Marylebone
Alice Daisy, b. March 1883, London

parents:

Franz Louis Julius THIMM
author, bookseller, publisher
b. abt. 1820/1, Prussia (Berlin?), Germany
went to England in 1839
d. July 6, 1889, Stanhoe Lodge, Fortis Green, Middlesex

m. Jul-Sep 1851, Chelsea

Horatia MATHIAS
b. abt. 1828, Malta
d. Apr-June 1898, East Preston, Sussex
5(?) children

membership:

Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
Honorary Librarian to the Inventors' Institute, London
Member of the Library Association of the United Kingdom

dates and events:

1871 bookseller, Hanover Sq., London
1884 librarian to the International Health Exhibition of 1884, London
1891 author, publisher; living with father-in-law Frederick Haywood in Bloomsbury
1901 late Captain 2nd London Rifles, staying with sister-in-law Elizabeth Thimm in London
1909 librarian to the Sleeping Sickness Bureau, "Bibliography of Trypanosomiasis" published
1920-1930 British Telephone Directories, Streatham, London
1931 obituary for Sir David Bruce by Major C. A. Thimm, late South African Field-Force,
in The Times, Tuesday, Dec 1, 1931, p. 19, col. C