Re: SANGERS in London and later in Australia.

The coincidence here is too much for my novelistic imagination!

My great-grandfather, Edward/Elias Sanger was born in Konitz, West Prussia in 1824 and died in New York in 1903. He ended up as a textile merchant of some sort. That we know. The rest is family lore. The story is that he went to sea, and also lived in England where he worked for the government. He then went to Australia where he discovered a spring now named Sanger Spring. It is on a map somewhere as a sheep station. He then went to California for the gold rush.

There is a book by Henry Ellis, "From Kennebec to California" where an Edward Sanger is mentioned as a partner of Ellis in a gold mine.

Now, all this may be true or maybe my forebears borrowed someone else's life story to glamorize the family tree. Perhaps your ancestor's?

At any rate there is more than one Edward Sanger in NYC directories at the end of the 19th century.

Edward had one son, William/Wilhelm, who married Margaret Higgins who thus became the famous Margaret Sanger, my grandmother.

If you see any connections in our stories, i'd love to hear about them.

Thank you.