This connects with a thread here - the last few pages are relevant, referring to Alice Maud Mary Crook and her marriage to Reinhold Bertram.
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=833172.msg6978593#msg6978593Reinhold Bertram is a bit of a mystery, but Rootschatter jonw65 found him in some directories and I wonder if someone can point me to any other sources?
From his marriage cert in Oct 1911, he was a builder and contractor, and his father of the same name was a builder and decorator.
The English equivalent of Reinhold is Reginald, and I have found a Reginald Bertram, builder, in 1910 in a Post Office directory, builder, at 80 Cleveland St - this side of the street was in St Pancras; the other side of the street in St Marylebone. This person might be the father or son?
Reinhold Bertram was shown as a German national in the 1911 census, born abt 1877, living in Lanark Villas, Paddington with his wife Bertha, a German national, born abt 1884, and two children, Oscar born abt 1909 in Marylebone, and Brunhilde born abt 1907 in St Pancras. Married about 1905. 3 children, 2 living.
From the GRO birth indexes, Bertha's maiden name was recorded as Krache for her firstborn, Wolfgang, born and died in Q3 1906 registered in Pancras. For the other two children, she is recorded as Krahe.
I have discovered that if someone has a German father, they are automatically considered a German national, wherever they were born. So I don't know where Reinhold B and Bertha were born or married, as they aren't in the freeBMD or GRO indexes.
In October 1911, Reinhold Bertram, bachelor, 34, married Alice Maud Mary Crook, 29, in Paddington, but I can't find a death for Bertha so perhaps they went abroad, or she remarried, or they were never married in the first place. That 1921 census will be fascinating!
They had one child, George, born 1912 but doesn't appear in any further records that I can find. Mrs Bertram nee Crook appears on the electoral roll from 1918 to 1922 for 11 Hetley Rd, Hammersmith and Shepherd's Bush, Middx, so would have been resident there from late in 1917 to qualify. She presumably qualified because she divorced or her husband died (but he isn't in the death indexes) and she regained her British nationality. When she died, in 1931, the probate doc stated that she was a widow.
Reinhold B is not listed in any electoral registers (presumably because German) but is listed in street directories for 1917, and the 1919-20 directory at 11 Hetley Rd, but not 1920-21.
I'm wondering if he or his father might show up in trade or street directories earlier than 1910.
Thanks for reading all this.
