General Chat

Would like to go back to the early 1900s and ask the German grandfather and grt grandparents where in Germany they came from and why they called diifferent siblings of grandfather ,"Max " on the 1891 and 1901 census when the ages don't add up from census to census

I wouldn't mind a cryonic 20 years if I could be brought round just to see how everyone managed to survive the Brexit muddle.

Shirley
My Daughter in laws Family also came from Germany
and they to changed their names and ages

To avoid People knowing they where Germans during the war :-D

Yes Joy mine are around till 1911 then zilch

Grt grandmother died 1907 . Grandfather died June 1911, one of his brothers karl/Charles who anglised his name like my grandad did ,died 1910
By 1911 only his widow and a daughter show
My grandma shows with my dad and his siblings but grandfather was at sea and was in Australia.
He was lost overboard on a sailing ship on route to Bremen .i have the ships log with the details

I know nothing of my paternal grandfather as my father and his siblings hated him and refused to talk about him. Perhaps I could have coaxed something out of my Nan, but she died when I was 12. But then, she had more cause than the rest to hate him. I would also like to talk to my maternal grandfather about his experiences in WW1. Like most of his fellow soldiers, he was reluctant to talk about it. Perhaps if I had thought tp go round in uniform after I joined the army, he might have opened up. To late now.