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Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: sand on Sunday 26 July 09 19:09 BST (UK)
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I hope I am posting this in the correct place!
A friend of mine has been trying for some considerable time to find out more about her grandfather to no avail. I am wondering if some of the wise and learned folks of Rootschat can help. Here goes....
Her grandfather a Joseph WOOD lived and worked in LEEDS in the early 1900s.
Just after the start of WW1 3 men arrived at the family home to take the family away for internment. My friend's mother thought it was to the Isle of Wight (she was only a child at the time) but I can only find reference to people being sent to the Isle of Man. Joseph was never taken away though because he had recently died and the rest of the family were allowed to stay.
My friend does not know what nationality her grandfather was. She only knows that he spoke with an accent and thinks that he may have been German and probably Jewish. She got a birth certificate showing that he was born in Hull but she does not believe that this is correct. She also thinks that he changed his name to WOOD as many aliens did at that time.
Can anyone suggest who to get into contact with or offer any suggestions. I am intrigued to know more about her ancestry. I'm always telling her that she looks foreign - very black hair and a certain shaped nose.....!
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Sand
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All you can do is research the family - have you found them on the 1911 and 1901 censuses?
Who was he married to and when?
There was a Joseph Wood who d. Dec quarter (Oct/Nov/Dec) 1914, in Leeds, could this be him? He was aged 45 at the time.
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If they were German consider looking under the surname Holz...with is German for Wood. Also, when it relates to burial (if the information is known) all Jews must be buried before sundown on the day of death (unless there's some extreme extenuating circumstance).