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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #9 on: Friday 07 April 06 08:12 BST (UK) »
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.
ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
WW1 internees

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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #10 on: Friday 07 April 06 09:54 BST (UK) »
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
Looking for Fry in London, Surrey, Devon& Dublin. Humphries in Wandsworth.  Marsh in Wandsworth & Kingston. Blacker in Wandsworth & Battersea.
Growney in Meath & Dublin. Also Harris and Walker in London
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #11 on: Friday 07 April 06 10:58 BST (UK) »
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
Looking for Fry in London, Surrey, Devon& Dublin. Humphries in Wandsworth.  Marsh in Wandsworth & Kingston. Blacker in Wandsworth & Battersea.
Growney in Meath & Dublin. Also Harris and Walker in London
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #12 on: Saturday 08 April 06 01:30 BST (UK) »
This is fascinating, Michelle.  I did not know about this site.
ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
WW1 internees


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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 22 February 07 03:48 GMT (UK) »
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...

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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 22 February 07 07:05 GMT (UK) »
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.)
ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
WW1 internees

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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #15 on: Thursday 22 February 07 14:16 GMT (UK) »
WWI...he was born Herman D. Bischof 1884 in Austria.

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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #16 on: Friday 23 February 07 00:25 GMT (UK) »
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).
any thing with a Manx Connection

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Re: WW1 Internment Camp at Knockaloe
« Reply #17 on: Friday 23 February 07 05:21 GMT (UK) »
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.
ARMSTRONG - Castleton Scot; NB; Westminstr Twp
BARFIELD - Nailsea
BRAKE - Nailsea
BURIATTE
CANDY - M'sex, Deptford
CLIFFORD - Maidstone
DURE(E) - France, Devon, Canada
HALLS - Chigwell
KREIN, Peter/Adam - Germany
LEOPOLD - Hanover, London
LATTIMER, MAXWELL - Ldn lightermen
MEYER - Lauenstein
MURRAY - Scot borders
STEWART - Chelsea; Reach
SWANICK - Mayo & Roscommon; Ontario
WEST - Rochester & Maidstone
WILLIS - Wilts, Berks, Hants, London
WOODHOUSE - Bristol tobacconist, London
WW1 internees