Russia in 1915? George Blees Boardman 1915-1998

[elliot]

Many thanks for all these leads!
HEYWOOD,
thanks for the 1920 incoming passenger lists.
Vladimir, 32 yrs
Elizabeth 32 yrs
Dagmar 2 yrs
George 5 yrs

Elizabeth is the same age as Vladimir, perhaps she is his wife,
I wonder if she is also Glaphira Ushakova [russian born]
or another woman?
The child Dagmar sounds Germanic.
George became a teacher of German and French.

[heywood]

Reply #5 from fiddlerslass gives Vladimir’s wife as Dagmar Elizabeth.
Where do you have the information that she was Glaphira Ushakova?

[heywood]

You may want to check these records, if you have not already done so.

May 1920 arrival from Russia
Glofira Boardman 60 yrs
Jennie Boardman 20 yrs

April 1920 from Russia. - may be connected?
Several Boardmans -William, 30yrs, Elizabeth, 30 yrs, Lydia 8 yrs, James 58 yrs,
 Alexander, 55yrs, Emma 55yrs, Jenny, 33 yrs
The men are engineers

1921 - boarders
Glafira Boardman, 60 yrs, married and Gennie, 31 yrs, and Gennie, 20 yrs

1936 and 1937
Glafira Boardman and Genia Esch are on electoral registers in Kensington

1939 probate record
Administration of estate of Glafira Boardman, widow died 1939, to  Genia Esch.

[Mabel Bagshawe]

The child Dagmar sounds Germanic.

Dagmar is a Danish/Scandinavian name - particularly prominent from Princess Dagmar of Denmark who after her marriage became Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia alongside her husband Tsar Alexander. Presumably why a Russian connected family chose the name.

She was also sister to our Queen Alexandra

[Glenboro]

Well, I never knew that George's middle name was Blees. Mind you we just called him "Sir" when he was the German master at Braintree County High School from circa 1939 to the 1970s. I vaguely recall that we did know that he could speak Russian but we didn't know his background. He used to cycle in to school on his elderly bike which, looking back, he had probably bought new when he first came to Braintree.

One newspaper report describes him as acting as a "Perruquier" at an amateur dramatics performance. I had to look that up but it may be an indicator of an ancestors occupation.

His next door neighbour was the Physics teacher while a few doors down was the Biology mistress. 
 

[heywood]

Glenboro, welcome to Rootschat.
How lovely that you remember George. What a great link.