Despite suffering several miscarriages, Catherine had five children with Johannes: Johanna (1852-?), Augusta Amalie (1858-1923), Gottfried (18611891), Christoph (1863-1865) and Gottlieb Christoph; the latter two died in infancy. ${ }^{10}$ In addition to their own offspring, Catherine and Johannes also reared a number of other children over the course of their service at various mission stations, thus reproducing the extended family structure of both Ngeve's West Africa and Zimmermann's rural Swabian homeland (Haenger 1995, p. 13).  
Catherine had an active professional life. Put in charge of the Basel Mission school with her first husband George on their arrival in the Gold Coast, she  
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[^0]:    10 Based on information on Catherine's children received from Ulrike Sill of the University of Basel on 3 October 2006.