Translation request.

Michele Simmons Lewis

I can read German but I have a hard time with the old script. I don't need the entire thing translated. I only need to know if Johanna's PLACE of birth is given. Was Johanna a widow when her husband died or was he still alive? Also, I am unsure of her mother's first name. It looks like Betty but that sounds odd for this time and place.

sylviaelchinger1

Here's the translation of the snippet you provided, it should answer your questions -

…the master of engineering Michael Popp, residing in Hamburg, Rückertstrasse 52, declared that Johanna Amanda Zumbach nee Behrmann, without occupation, 80 years and 2 months old, Lutheran religion, residing in Hamburg, an der Alster 21, born in Hamburg on 28 December 1839, previously married to the merchant Karl Albert Julius Zumbach, daughter of the deceased married couple from here, the private citizen Hans Andreas Behrmann and Betty Louise nee Krohn, died in Hamburg in the above-mentioned residence on 21 March 1920 at 8:45 p.m., which the informant…