Joseph and Fanny Immerman had four children: Aaron, born around 1878, Leopold Joseph (Arieh Yossel) born in 1870, Neha Bassia (Betty) and Shifra (Sofia). Aaron married Lena Blumberg and they moved to South Africa and had six children. Anne, Morris, Lily, Charles, Joseph and Harry. Anne Immerman married Joseph Friedberg, brother of David Friedberg. David married Anne Toube daughter of Shifra and Feiwel Toube. Betty married Moshe Blumberg. They remained in Latvia. Three of their nine children, David, Joseph and Leah lived in Vryburg.

 

See the section on the Blumberg family.

 

Leopold arrived in South Africa in 1892 and was naturalized in Hopetown in 1906. His sister Sophie (Shifra), who married Phillip (Feiwel) Toube -father of Charles and Maurice David- arrived on the same boat as Leopold. Once settled, he sent for a wife and his cousin Johanna joined him around 1902 and they were married in 1903. Johanna and Leopold had five children: Sidney, Mary, Fanny (who married Joseph Spitz), Anne and Morris. Three of the six children lived in Vryburg: Sidney Immerman who married Katie (surname?), initially worked for Headermans and then ran his own bicycle store and a gift store. Katie and Sidney had a daughter, Lorraine (Lorrie). Leopold and Johanna's daughter Anne married Oom Piet (Percy) Leibowitz, who was with Solomon's Stores, at the end of 1933. Percy and Anne had two children, Selwyn and Hilary. The third child to live in Vryburg for a time was Morris. Morris married Sarah Sandler from Vryheid and they had three children, Alwyn, Lynne and Hilton. Morris was a sales representative. At the age of 19 their daughter Hilda, who was in all likelihood the eldest, was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1928. She is buried in Jagersforntein. 

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Johanna and Leopold seem to have reached Vryburg in the 1930's – coming from Jaggersfontein - after their daughter Annie married Percy Leibowitz (need to confirm this). Prior to Jagersforntien they lived in Koffiefontein. Leopold passed away in Vryburg in 1943 and is buried in the local cemetery. Johanna passed away in 1975 aged 89 and is buried in the Strand.

 

​The Immerman and Blumberg families were twice connected by marriage. Moses Blumberg was married to Betty Immerman in Talsi. Three of their children lived in Vryburg: David and Joseph Blumberg and sister Lea (who first married a Toube and then remarried Isaac [Lolly] Friedman). Lepold's brother Aaron (born in 1978) married Lena Blumberg.

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The Immerman-Friedman Connection: from an interview with Morris - son of Aaron - Immerman

We left Koffiefontein in 1910 in order to improve his position and he went to Boxsburg, Oxberg - a little village up Calvinia, that way ... he had a hotel there ... a very strange thing .. from Koffiefontein, I know where we went, we went to Middleburg, we went there because we had relations over there the Lieberthals. My mother had a half-brother, step-brother, by the name of [Leib Lewin] Friedman and his daughter [Lea] had married her uncle, [Simon] Lieberthal. They went to Lorenco Marques ... and they had been farming in the Willomore district, they had been farming over there and the farm did not pay after a time so they exchanged their farm for a club in Middleburg, it was at that time a military centre, and Grootfontein which is still to today there is a college over there ... barracks ... anyway they got the club and the licence and so the shop in Koffiefontein ... my father thought he would continue with his ostriches, the family remained in Middleburg. My father used to come back and spend a week with us in Douglas and we were with the Lieberthals.