Richard Alfred Lane & Alfred Richard Hayward, my 1st cousins thrice removed

191/365 Sunday 07/10/2011

This is a picture of two distant cousins—first cousins 3 times removed. Their parents were my great grand aunt Annette Lane, who married a Military Chaplain named John Hayward and my great grand uncle Alfred John Lane, who married “a daughter of Lane from Jersey”. This is only family connection I can find to Jersey, the “other” Channel Island. Most of my family connections are to Guernsey. 

Interestingly, both the Balliwicks of Guernsey and Jersey are not considered to be part of the UK or the European Union. They are British Crown dependencies. I wonder what that would mean if I decided I wanted to live there…

Anyway back to the picture. The boy on the left is Dick (Richard) Lane and on the right is Alfred Hayward.  I've spent a good chunk of time surfing the internets for information on either of them.  Dick was the youngest of five. All I could find was a brief death notice for his older brother (the oldest of the five) Alfred Ambrose Lane, who died in Pilton, UK on June 16, 1889 at the house of his aunt, Mrs Hayward (the mother of Alfred in the picture).  My Lane pedigree tells me that Richard married Anne Elizabeth Harlof, but I cannot find anything about her.

Regarding Alfred Hayward: born in Leix, Ireland - became a Major in the Army and married Maude Mary Kemmis, about whom there is quite a bit on the internets. Her father, e.g. was John Olphert Kemmis and he and her mother (Mary Louisa Needham) lived in Canada and India.  She also had a second husband.

Probably the most interesting genealogical document I found during this particular internet escapade is this obituary of Alfred’s older brother, John Alfred Le Mesurier Hayward, who apparently at some point moved to Quorn, a village in Leicestershire, England. 

128/365 Sunday 05/08/2011

I could have sworn I already blogged about this--actually I'm pretty sure I did...Blogger must have screwed up somehow and lost it--anyway it's just a picture of Bill and his mom walking in the metroparks near her apartment after our scrumptious brunch/lunch at Cracker Barrel where we waited  for our table in rocking chairs outside the store.

116/365 Tuesday 04/26/2011

It's dead relative day here once again on Auspicious Alltag!! This charming image is of my paternal grandmother: Gertrude Prietz, who I'm pretty sure is the one sitting on the bench with her twin sister, (sitting on the arm of the bench) (whose name I don't have--if I find it I'll add it). I'm not sure why, but I truly love this picture--their faces, the pretty white dresses, their hair, the soft focus that makes it all kind of glow. It's a very sweet photo. 

111/365 Thursday 04/21/2011

Since I've been posting scanned pictures of various dead relatives on my mother's side of the family, I thought I'd post one from my father's side. And this one is dated "Easter 1931" -- 80 years ago! The cute little boy in the middle is my father Horst (Carl Friedrich) Grimm, who was born on October 7, 1928 in Stettin in the Prussian province of Pomerania. After the Second World War the city became polish and is now called Szcecin. But my father's family moved to Berlin at some point when he was still quite young. He always felt more like a Berliner than a Stettiner. The two men are his father on the left: Carl-Heinz and uncle, Ernst, on the right. I know very little about them. I remember hearing a story about how the two of them were orphaned at an early age and that they were adopted by different families. What is interesting to me is how Ernst, the uncle looks a lot more like my father than his actual father does....hmmmm. Carl-Heinz looks more like my father's younger brother, Peter,who was born nine years later. Carl-Heinz died fairly soon after the war I think. Uncle Ernst lived longer but my father never got back in touch with him, once he emigrated to Australia. (Which he did soon after the War).