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From: Linda Fisher, e-mail her

Below is the line of my family so far.

Willi NEUMANN no dates
Moses Neumann b. 17.09.1879 married 03/10/1924 Elisabeth Martha Johanna SCHMIDT b.16.09.1899. Moses was a Kapellmeister and Elisabeth was a shop assistant.
They had two sons Leo Neumann b.05.07.1925 and Hans b.05.08.1929.

Max Neumann no dates married but no names as yet.

Wolf Neumann b.1870 was on Moses and Elisabeth marriage certificate, Wolf was also a Kapellmeister.

Moses came from Drohobycz, Galizien Austria.

From: Stephen Altoft, e-mail him This looks like an interesting project.

I am writing to ask for advice. I am applying for financial assistance for a collaborative concert project between British and German based musicians. This will be presented by the British Music Information Centre in its Cutting Edge series of concerts held at The Warehouse, in London in December. This two concert project will focus very much on British composers who live in England and also abroad.

The project is a collaboration between Darragh Morgan's violin and piano duo, myself (trumpet) and the German group, Suono Mobile. This would take the form of an early evening performance of the Listenings cycle by Bryn Harrison (a composer on the BMIC's New Voices scheme), and then a later concert by the Freiburg group, Suono Mobile. Apart from a unique concert experience, this piece will bring together musicians from Germany and England, and allow an exchange on both the musical and cultural levels in which the composers will also be present.

The complete ensemble for the Listenings concert will consist of: Violin, Piano, Percussion, Flute and Trumpet. These pieces have not yet been performed as a complete work, and a performance during the Cutting Edge series could be the world premiere of the Listenings Cycle. It is envisaged that there will also be performances in the Baden-Württemburg area of Germany, during 2003.

The second concert will be by Suono Mobile (flute, piano and percussion) and myself (trumpet), and would feature the UK premiere of a piece by young German Composer, Michael Maierhof alongside music by British composers on the BMIC's New Voices scheme (James Saunders, Mary Bellamy and Laurence Crane), pieces by Christopher Fox (whose Mother is German), Alistair Zaldua (now living in Freiburg, Germany) and James Gardner (now living in Auckland, New Zealand).

The importance of this project is to bring together talented British composers with performers of new music from abroad, and to encourage artistic collaboration (in matters of programming and performance) between European interpreters of new music. For emerging performers of new music, it is often problematic to find an ensemble in which everyone is committed to this repertoire and to experimentation. This collaboration not only addresses this problem, but also allows for more diversity in programming, the wider dissemination of British music, and has the potential for attracting a wider audience.

I am looking at ways of funding the German group's travel and accommodation costs for this project, and would welcome any help or advice you can offer.

Many thanks Stephen Altoft, trumpeter

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Huddersfield
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From: Terence Quinn e-mail him

I am researching Karl SCHIBIL c.1878-1899 Bad Reinerz, Lower Silesia, Prussia but now Transferred to Poland and called Duszniki Zdro. In 1899-1914 Hammersmith and Chiswick, London W and 1914-1917 (presumed) interned at Alxandra Palace.
Anyone with information, please contact me by e-mail.

I am trying to find the birthplace in Germany of my Great Grandfather William HEES, 1869 - 1947, who settled in Birmingham around the late 1880's and later moved to Wolverhampton. Please e-mail me if you have any information.

From: Irene Connelly e-mail her

I am researching these names:-

From: Brian Rollings e-mail him

The name I am researching here in the UK and in Germany is : EMLER.

In particular I am interested in two Albert Emler's on the 1881 and 1901 censuses both born in Germany but anybody with the surname Emler is welcome to contact me by e-mail

I'm searching for Friedrich ECKHOFF, born 12.3.1835 in Hatzte or Elsdorf. Our church record writes that he went in 1854 to London. Now I haven't any idea to find his ancestors. Also I'm searching to Anna Maria Eckhof, born 3.3.1835 and went 1859 to London. In the US I can see the ship list, and have found there some of my searching names. You can link my homepage. There are over 25000 people from the north area of Germany (most from Hamburg-Bremen)

Stefan is not a member but we are posting this because he has put his database at our disposal.

From: Karen Payne e-mail her

Membership number 3149

Surname of interest Hugo Adolph Beck

Occupation Seaman, Mosaic Layer, Gardener.
Date of Birth 23 March 1879
Place of Birth Dresden Germany
Date of Marriage 02 October 1904
Place of Marriage St Paul's Clerkenwell London
Date of Death 05 May 1943
Place of Burial Greenbank Cemetery Bristol
Date of Arrival in uk 1902
Name of ship Not known
Date of internment Not known
Next of Kin Margaret Rose Ball (daughter)
Fathers name Gustav Adolph Beck
Mothers name Marie Magdalena Shultz
My relationship Granddaughter
Other information:-
By the time Hugo Married Mary Elizabeth Hurst in 1904, Hugo's father Gustav was Deceased.