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England (Counties as in 1851-1901) => England => Lancashire => Topic started by: chirp on Sunday 08 March 15 20:02 GMT (UK)
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Today I was looking for the will of an ancestor in the NPC and noticed that there was an entry for the death of a teacher of languages in Manchester in 1864. The names of two of the executors interested me: Frederick Engels at an address in Manchester and Karl Marx in Middlesex.
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Interesting find indeed ;)
I wonder what the connection was with your ancestor ? Intriguing.
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There is no connection to the person I was researching; the names were associated with the next person on the list and I just noticed the two famous names. I am sure that somewhere there is a historian who would be interested in the reference and in particular the addresses.
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Fascinating, do you know the name of the teacher and school please ?
BB :)
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That's fantastic! Such little gems pop up here and there, totally irrelevant to whatever we're supposed to be doing - but leading us down a pleasant little byway. I've enough trouble finding the death dates / probate records that should be in my tree, it'd never do to keep straying to adjacent columns or names. Well done! what a find.
(A languages teacher may not actually have been working at a school - quite a few seem to have been peripatetic, going to more than one establishment, or even worked from home, with private pupils, surprisingly.)
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The teacher's name was Johann Friedrick Wilhelm Wolff. and he died on 9 May 1864 at Carter Street, Chorlton on Medlock. No school mentioned.
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Wikipedia article translated from the german original : http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Wolff_%28Publizist%29&prev=search
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Dedication of Volume 1 of Das Kapital: "To my unforgettable friend, Wilhelm Wolff. Intrepid, faithful, noble protagonist of the proletariat" per http://dbpedia.org/page/Wilhelm_Wolff
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Many thanks 'chirp' , I think you've struck gold here, you certainly have for me, it's gonna pull so many things together and hopefully so much more .. Dickens,Marx, Engels,Angel Meadow,the Sunday School story etc; etc;
Thank You, BB :D :-*
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Wilhelm Wolff was buried in Ardwick Cemetery. The records are in the Manchester collections on Find My Past.
:) Barbara
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Thank you all for your comments and ShaunJ for the links - this is really interesting. There was a third executor named - Louis Borchardt MD of Rusholme Road Manchester.
http://www.bmj.com/content/2/1195/1047