Frederick Demond

[John Fazio]

(08-18-2015 02:40 PM)Jim Garrett Wrote:  Great detective work John.

Jim:

Thank you.

John

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Everyone:

About that discrepancy: The document the nice ldy from The Netherlands sent me "from the book of Morel" listed, at entry No. 2209, one "Lippmann, Zenon". Because this is somewhat inconsistent with the name given in her email message, namely "Heno Gerhardus Josephus", I asked her for clarification. Here is heer response:

Dear sir:
I can assure you that it's the same person.
The Name Heno is not very well known, in Holland and also in Belgium.
I send you a fotocopy of the Belgian form, so you can see it by yourself.
And a dutch speaking person gives his name to a French speaking person, and there are a lot of mistakes in the way of writing a name!
My regards,
Marijke Zonneveld-Kouters

The form she attached is headed:

Division Militaire PLACE de

Depot de Bataillon des Zouaves

Feuille d'enrolment

de pour deux ans.

It then goes on to give the name of the subject, in script, as what appears to be Heno Gerard Joseph Lipman, the names of his father and mother and his birthdate of October 8, 1845, together with a statement that he was from Deventer, Holland. There is a lot of other verbiage, but it is irrelevant boiler plate.

I am satisfied that she has shown that Henry Lipman served in the
Papal Zouaves at the same time Surratt did, i.e. that their periods of service overlapped. I will leave it to you to draw whatever conclusions you care to, as to the veracity of the escape accounts, from that fact.

John