REF birth registration. This was about a fortnight after CRWC's birth.
I am thinking that Chapman Street (now Tower Hamlets) was probably
"Alice's" parents address. The name on the slip of paper we have is deffo Rosa.
Friedrich and Fanny were still foreigners in the UK and may have done it this way
to ensure CWRC's UK status or some other legal reason. Who knows, in the census it states
he was born in Finchley. They seemed to move a lot??
This part is TOTALLY left field speculation.I have always wondered why Friedrich immigrated to London.
This is a tiny snippet to base a theory on but Johanna's parents came from
Sonderburg, which is now in Germany after a plebiscite in 1856.
Formerly it was Denmark.
I have been reading that a lot of former Danish young men were reluctant
to be called up to fight for Germany and either deserted, went AWOL or emigrated (usually USA).
This would explain why (the Kurten's my great grand-people) came to London. (kinda)
Johanna's dad was a waiter in a central London Hotel. (census)
There seems a slight "class" disparity between CWRC and JFBK
?
and I am wondering if their families knew each other back in Schleswig Holstein.
Once again very speculative. There is a Haedicke hot spot near Halle, and I think they were
canal builders and mechanical engineers. I have found another Haedicke hotspot
in a very unlikely place. Kittisford in Somerset. They were not residents but outsourced to build a stretch of Taunton/Exeter canal through a private estate. Several children were born
and "recorded" in the estate church. All the names tie up with subsequent Halle Haedicke registrations in Germany. But NO Friedrich T 1852c.
Stay with me here.
The Kiel Canal runs across Schleswig Holstein and was a huge prolonged undertaking over a long period while it was both Denmark and Germany and it is not too much of stretch to think some of the Halle Canallers were employed on that project. H Haedicke was a bigwheel in Steam Engines and in one of the census Fanny brother is in England studying Railway Engineering. . . very tentative
***** Another snippet from my pa which I have followed up and got precisely nowhere, was that
Friedrich was a man of private means, because there was a connection to a lead pencil company, possibly by marriage to Fanny (Francis?) Merseburg.
******** Anecdotally, I have found with other part of my family tree, that quite often these family stories have a basis of truth, but have been assigned to a wrong person or time.
Any way thanks.
We have contacted Alma's (Big Aunty) daughter and her son Christopher who both now live in Norfolk.
They don't know what happened to Rudolph, although I met him once when little. 1950. He was fun.
