WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe

[loo]

Michelle, I have just been pulling together all my bits and pieces of information, which are still at an early stage.
You probably know this already, but I just found your Johann mentioned (as John, age 56) on this list of camp deaths:
http://www.lawsons.ca/burials/intern.html 
Perhaps it will help you in some other search to know that he was also known as John.

[runey]

Hi Loo,
Thanks for that. In most of the records I have for him he was John Evers. I have been doing some research into his german roots and have developed the habit of calling him Johann.
I checked the link you put up, and I notice that Peter Soltys is not listed. I wonder if he died in Stobs, before he was sent to Knockaloe?  I must do some more checking.
Michelle

[runey]

Just found a photo of Peter Soltys grave at Stobs on this website, http://members.aol.com/stobsmilitary/Pages/Page7/page7.htm
I was just looking again to find some general information and I spotted his name on the headstone. The details of the other prisoners mentioned makes for very sad reading.
Michelle

[loo]

This is fascinating, Michelle.  I did not know about this site.

[Florida June]

If anyone should run into my father's name (he was 60 when I was born)..HERMAN D. BISHOP (Bischof), he was a tailor in London and told me he was imprisoned on Isle of Man. A family rumor is that he fathered a child while in London..something else to pursue...

[loo]

If anyone should run into my father's name (he was 60 when I was born)..HERMAN D. BISHOP (Bischof), he was a tailor in London and told me he was imprisoned on Isle of Man. A family rumor is that he fathered a child while in London..something else to pursue...

Would this have been during WW1 or WW2? (Isle of Man was an internment centre during both wars.)

[Florida June]

WWI...he was born Herman D. Bischof 1884 in Austria.

[Frances_mnb]

May I point out that the graveyard is Kirk Patrick (not St Patrick's) - www.manxnotebook.com already referred to will give more history; Most of the bodies interred internees (from WW1) were transferred to the UK and the original headstones smashed - there are still some Turkish and Jewish graves intact in the yard.  www.lawsons.ca has a list of all burials both for WW1 & WW2 (here the internees were held in requistioned boarding houses).

[loo]

WWI...he was born Herman D. Bischof 1884 in Austria.

I will keep an eye out for him as I continue my research.  I am only able to do it from time to time, but you never know what you might run into.