Having put my own tree aside for several months, as I seem to have progressed as far as I can, I am now trying to help a friend find her ancestors. And I have got stuck very quickly!
I know that Johann Schildknecht (b. c1884 Austria) did not marry Lilian Clements, his partner of several years. They both worked in a hotel in Manchester. They lived together and are in the 1911 Census in Manchester saying they were married, but the children's birth certificates prove otherwise.
He was from Austria, and was deported in 1914 at the onset of the Great War. Alas, Lilian died in 1919, and the children found themselves fostered to relations and Barnardo's. Their father was never found. I suppose he might have died in the WWI.
I have traced the Clements family, but of the Schildknechts, I can find no clue. The name is not not even in the one name section of RootsChat!
I see there are several in the USA, and I guess he might have emigrated after the war. I don't have a subscription to any US records. And I am unsure how to look up Austrian records.
Any suggestions on how to proceed gratefully accepted.
meles
