North - IBEA Co. Appt. Dec 1890; Not on 'Nominal List of British Subjects in IBEA Territories' (ZA) 30-4-1891

North - formerly H.M. Stanley's servant 1887-89

jeffreygreen.co.uk/the-london-family-of-william-hoffmann-1867-1941:  As Hoffman was born in Germany it could be expected that the surname was Hoffmann, and that his forename was probably Wilhelm. A search among a variable set of names revealed the following.
The 1881 census and that of Carburton Street, 1891 list his father as William Hoffmann (born Germany, a surgical and deformity instrument maker) and his wife Kate perhaps Kati (also born in Germany). Their age gap was 9 years. In 1881 young William was aged 13 and his mother was 27: so he was born when she 14. That maths also results from the 1891 data. The 1881 census gives no place of birth for young William but in 1891 it has “Germany (British subject)” for him, his parents, and sister Bertha.
Bertha was 8 in 1881 (and 17 in 1891); the London-born baby in 1881 was Minnie aged 7 months (and 8 in 1891). The 1891 census has young William as “African Traveller & Interpreter” aged 22, and two London-born brothers and a sister: Ludwig [sic] aged 8, Herman aged 5, and Louise aged 2 months. Ten years later the Hoffmann household is headed by Kate Hoffmann, widow aged 47 born in Germany “(German subj)”. Louis [sic] is now 18 and a commercial clerk, Herman is 15 and also a commercial clerk, and there is George, aged 5.
Their father had been killed in a fight in and near the Tiger public house near their central London home at 21 Wells Mews in late October 1895. Drunk, he was rude to Emma Howard. He was thrown out of the pub, she three times knocked him to the ground, and he was taken to hospital where he died some days later on 30 October. A witness said he did not understand what Hoffmann said as “he is a bit of a German” and that the pair were having “a bit of a jangle” (dispute). Hoffman told one of the policemen who took him to hospital that he had fallen down. But Mrs Howard went on trial at the Old Bailey (I found the details on line and then in The Times) where, despite the coroner’s view that she was guilty of manslaughter, she was found not guilty. The “African Traveller” was in the Congo: his mother Kate had baby George to deal with (perhaps she was still pregnant?).
The brothers: Louis or Ludwig born around 1883 seems to have gone to Canada, Herman born around 1886 seems to have died in 1925, and George is not traced. The sisters: Bertha (born in Germany, 1874) seems to have married in early 1892 and Minnie may have married Percy Thomas Beard in late 1899. Louise (born around 1890-1891) is also absent from her mother’s home on census night 1901. Perhaps she had died?
In 1902 he was living at 47 Grafton Street, then 46 Howland Street, he got married in Acton and then lived with his wife’s family at 42 Essex Street from 1904 with spells in 1906-7 at 47 George Street then 24 Tolmers Square 1910-12. He kept pressing Dorothy Stanley for money.
1911 England census living, as interpreter, in St Pancras with wife Jennie (sic) b. Little Bampton, Clanfied, Oxon. 1873