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I absolutely can't make the thing work.  All I get is this small symbol in the middle of the screen with a blue round thing on it.  I have tried reinstalling it, but it only tells me that it is already installed.  I think I asked about this a few weeks ago, but can't find the thread.  They keep taking my money, but I'm not getting anything.  It did work for a few weeks, but that was two months ago.
Any easy ideas?  I'm not a computer whiz, and wouldn't think I should have to be!
Very annoyed here!  Grrr!
thanks for any help you can give.

I have a mystery man named John West.  I find no evidence that he has a middle name.

I do not know where or when he was born.  And I do not know when he died.  He is a stone mason on his son's marriage cert, and an  "artificial stone worker" on his own marriage cert.  His age is not given on the marriage cert.  His father is William, a cabinetmaker.  The wife and child live in Pancras throughout. 

Married Eliza Stewart FEb.20/1864, Pancras.
Son Harry Wm born Feb.5/1865;  probably the only child.

I do not find clear evidence of him on any census so far. 

By 1871, John is absent from wife and child; wife is "married";  wife is "head of household".  Her sister also lives with them, and continues to do so throughout.
By 1881, similar situation, wife "married" and "head of household", but John absent.
1889 - son marries;  on the marriage cert, his father is listed, but not called "deceased".
By 1891, John still absent, wife is "widow" and head of household.
1901 - I have misplaced my census, but he isn't there either, and it seems reasonable to assume that he must surely have died already by that stage.  Wife and sister still living together.

There is no death on freebmd which seems like a dead ringer for him.
I have trawled several years at 1837online, but it's getting expensive and I haven't found any really good choices yet, and there are tons of people by this name.
Someone still living remembers seeing a photo of him once, in his son's living room, wherein he appeared to be perhaps about 40 years of age;  photo no longer exists, and that was a long time ago, and memory could be faulty.

Can anyone figure out where I should focus my search?  Do you think he deserted her?  When do you suppose he died?  Valda mentioned on another thread that "married" could mean "widow", so I am now thinking maybe he died before 1871 because they only had the one child, which would be unusual even if he did leave later. 
I really would like to know more about him, as he's not that far back in history really.

Thanks for any help.

I am researching WW1 internments, but I occasionally run into items relevant to WW2, so I will list them here as I run into them, in no particular order.  As there has been quite a bit written about WW2, I will put an emphasis on including items which are either more significant or more obscure.

Ramati, Alexander.   Barbed Wire on the Isle of Man, the wartime British internment of Jews.  ISBN 0151106711

Jones, Ted.  Both Sides of the Wire.  in 2 volumes.  ISBN:  0920483216.  pub. Canada, 1988.  Second printing with corrections:  ISBN:  0920483216 (v.1) and 0920483259 (v. 2).   This book includes many many stories of individuals who were interned in Canada as either enemy aliens living in Canada or in UK, including Jewish refugees who had come to England from the continent at the beginning of the war or immediately before, and were summarily deported to Canada as enemy aliens (volume 1).  This has also been made into a film by the same name by Neal Livingston, Black River Productions, Mabou, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1993.  In the film there is a lot of footage of the Jewish refugees themselves speaking.  There is a long list of the people named in the index at the end of volume 2, so it is easy to find people.   Photos included.  Lots of detail.
   
Baddiel, David.  The Secret Purposes.  2004.  This is a historical novel.  David's grandfather was interned in WW2 as a German Jew on the Isle of Man.  He is interested in recovering this hidden piece of history and has incorporated insights from his family's story into this novel.  I heard him interviewed on CBC radio about it today - Dec.11/05.

Dove, Richard, ed.  'Totally un-English'?  Britain's Internment of 'Enemy Aliens' in Two World Wars.  Amsterdam/New York:  Rodopi, 2005.  214 pp.
Series: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German & Austrian Exile Studies 7.  Scholarly.  Available in libraries, and horribly expensive to buy.  (Note to Keith:  It includes one WW2 Italian article by Sponza.)  http://www.rodopi.nl/ntalpha.asp?BookId=EXILE+7&type=new&letter=W

Cresswell, Yvonne M., ed.  Living with the Wire: Civilian Internment in the Isle of Man during the two World Wars.  Pub: Manx National Heritage (1994).   ISBN 0-901106-35-6

Kochan, Miriam  Prisoners of England.  1980

Chappell, Connery.  Island of Barbed Wire: The Remarkable Story of World War Two Internment on the Isle of Man     Robert Hale:  2005.  ISBN: 0709077548.

LaFitte, F.  The internment of aliens.  ‘A very remarkable book… In its pages of close research, political analysis and agonized reporting lay a story which made the British wince with shame’ - Observer  The author was a professor of Social Policy at University of Birmingham.

Article discussing LaFitte's work and background, in English:
http://www.cercles.com/n11/deakin.pdf

Koop, Allen.  Stark Decency.  pub.1980s, University of New England Press.  Concerns an internment camp in New Hampshire.

"Diary of an Internment", White Pelican Summer 1974.  About experience by German internees in Canada.  I think this may be a journal.  Referenced in Ted Jones' book, volume 1.

Der Rabbi Mit Der Axt / Dreissig Geschichten.  published and edited by Herta Hartmanshenn and Frederick Kriegel, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 1973.  Short story or stories based on internment experience.  Referenced in Ted Jones book, , v.1, p.174

John Joseph KELLY, The Prisoner of War Experience in Canada, 1939-1947. 

Perin, Roberto, co-editor.  Enemies Within:  Italian and Other Internees in Canada and Abroad.   

Article from Toronto Star, 1 April 2007, page A5, "Ship of memories, good and bad" re: Italian-Canadian internments in Canada, http://www.thestar.com/article/198190  (The link may die, but you can always trace the article.)

Moota - Camp 103:  The Story of a Cumbrian Prisoner of War Camp.  by Gloria Edwards of the Kirkgate Museum Group, Cockermouth:  Little Bird Publications, 2005.  46pages.  ISBN 0 9551845 0 9.  The author is interested in preserving any additional stories of persons who were in this camp in the local Records Office.  She can be reached at High Moor House, Hill St., Cockermouth, Cumbria CA13 OAU. 

Müller-Härlin, Anna. 'Fred Uhlman’s internment drawings'. In Behr, Shulamith; Malet, Marian (ed.), Arts in exile in Britain, 1933-1945 : politics and cultural identity (Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 6) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005), 135-63.

Brinson, Charmian. '"Keine verlorene Zeit" : Musik im britischen Fraueninternierungslager Rushen'' ["No time lost": music in Rushen Womens' Internment Camp] In Rohde-Juechtern, Anne-Christine (ed.), Echolos? Klangwelten verfolgter Musikerinnen in der NS-Zeit. (Bielefeld: Aisthesis-Verlag, 2003).

Additional bibliography (and some overlap) can be found here:  http://www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/library/bibliographies/internment.xml

Note:  some interned in Britain were also sent to Australia, Canada,  and possibly other parts of the Commonwealth, so there are other places you can look.

I have been looking for a death listing for Henry Ernst August LEOPOLD (aka “Fritz”), who, as I was told by a family member, died in 1929.  I can't find him at 1837online.  I would expect he would have died in Walthamstow (is that West Ham?), but I really don't know, as people can die anywhere.  He must be out there somewhere.  Any clues most welcome.  He would have been in the range of 68 years, and had been a hairdresser.

thank you