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Isle of Man / Re: WWI and WWII internees
« on: Friday 23 March 18 18:32 GMT (UK)  »
Look forward to hearing from you in due course  :)

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Isle of Man / Re: Knockaloe photo search
« on: Friday 23 March 18 18:12 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Victor

We Have John Arthur Herold from Chorton-Cum-Hardy, Manchester on our database.

If you want to get in contact we would hope to be able to find out more for you over the next year - our database goes "live" in the Isle of Man in March 2019 as we are still working on it bringing the various sources of information into the database on the 40,000 Germans and Austrians we have detailed.

We should like to find out a little more from you to allow us to get the information collated on him. If you would like us to help and if you would like to share your family story please do contact us via info@knockaloe.im

Kind regards

Alison

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Isle of Man / Re: WWI and WWII internees
« on: Friday 23 March 18 17:43 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Alistair

We now have around 40,000 Germans and Austrians on the database for WW1, including three Germans and one Austrian by the name of Kuss. There are actually two separate johann's. We are pulling a huge amount of information together over the next year before it all goes "live" in March 2019. We should be delighted to start working with you to get information together about your family and this will then be completed after the database goes live.

If you would like to please contact us on info@knockaloe.im, we should also love to hear more about your family's experiences.

(and many thanks Maria)

Kind regards

Alison
Knockaloe.im Registered Charity in the Isle of Man

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Europe / Re: German Pork Butchers in Britain
« on: Sunday 20 March 16 19:28 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Richard

I am so pleased. if you would e mail us with what you know we can take it further identifying where he was in the camp and looking our own and other archives for you. We should also love to hear the family's "story".

Our database is being developed offline at the moment but will be coming online hopefully next year. In the meantime we will email everyone contacting us and do the search for them. There is a huge amount of information so we are just trying to bring it together.

In WW1 the only women interned were suspected spies. Wives of internees were repatriated but could seek exemption to stay in the UK. The vast majority of the applications to stay in the country were approved. However life was extremely hard for the families. Public opinion was a huge factor in internment policy during WW1 and anti-alien feeling was high. If you can email as much information as you have then  we can research the background for you and should be able to bring you some more information about the whole family's experience and also point you in the direction of others who can also help.

The database is being developed in a way to ensure it is currently sufficiently flexible to add the huge amount of information out there to it, hence not putting it online yet.

I am sorry you wont be able to visit, but perhaps at some point in the future. Our self guided walk (via a guidebook and or "app") around the site and area will be launched this year with an initial exhibition in the Visitors Centre which is still under development, and later this or early next year we shall be relocating an original hut back on site. So actually in a couple of years we should be able to provide a real sense of what life was like there. However at present we will provide private tours to anyone contacting us. In the meantime we are continually researching and are delighted to help on a one to one basis.

So do E mail, and the more information you have the more we will be able to tell you.

I am so pleased that we will be able to tell your Grandfather and his family's story at Knockaloe for future generations.

Kind regards

Alison

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Europe / Re: German Pork Butchers in Britain
« on: Sunday 20 March 16 13:33 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Richard

Frederich Schoch of 65 Bridge Street, Worksop was interned in late 1914, initially to Douglas in the Isle of Man and then moved into Knockaloe, Patrick on the Isle of Man as it expanded in 1915 to become the largest WW1 internment camp, holding tens of thousands of internees. At the end of the war he was transferred to Frith Hill, Frimley, prior to his release on 8 August 1919. Would he be your grandfather?

We should be delighted to help you find out more about his internment experience and also put you in touch with other organisations who may also be able to add to his story. Do contact us via our website www.knockaloe.im or via our facebook page www.facebook.com/knockaloeinternmentcampiom both to find out more and so we can then find out a little more from you to help us take this further.

We are a 100% not for profit Registered Charity seeking to retell the stories of the thousands of WW1 internees, most of whom spent a considerable part of the war living in our village of Patrick, as well as developing a Visitor's Centre at Knockaloe, Patrick. We should love to hear from you. Our contact details are on the website.

Many thanks

Alison Jones


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We now have our facebook page up and running. Follow us on www.facebook.com/knockaloeinternmentcampiom

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We are a registered charity, based on the Isle of Man, set up to provide a visitors centre and archive at the site of the largest WW1 internment camp at Knockaloe and we would be really happy to research anyone interned during World War 1 in the Isle of Man or indeed generally in the British Isles for you.

We are interested in the whole story of their arrival in Britain, their internment experience and what happened afterwards and will research as much as we can of each internee's experience. Any information you can provide to help us in our search is invaluable.

Details of our project and our E mail address to contact us can be found on our website www.knockaloe.im.

We should love to add the internee's story to our archive which will also allow us to continue to update you into the future as we progress our work collating information from various sources, as well as cross referencing with the information we are receiving from other descendants and are researching about other internees. The information we learn about one internee often has relevance in learning more about others.

Our work is entirely charitable.

Either contact us directly via our Email detailed on www.knockaloe.im, or for a look up request please start a new topic in the CENSUS and RESOURCE LOOKUP REQUEST board for the Isle of Man.

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Isle of Man Resources & Offers / LOOK UP OFFER WW1 Internment records
« on: Tuesday 23 June 15 18:25 BST (UK)  »
We are a registered charity, based on the Isle of Man, set up to provide a visitors centre and archive at the site of the largest WW1 internment camp and we would be really happy to research anyone interned during World War 1 in the Isle of Man or indeed generally in the British Isles.

We are interested in the whole story of their arrival in Britain, their internment experience and what happened afterwards and will research as much as we can of each internee's experience. Any information you can provide to help us in our search is invaluable.

Details of our project and our E mail address to contact us can be found on our website www.knockaloe.im.

We should love to add the internee's story to our archive which will also allow us to continue to update you into the future as we progress our work collating information from various sources, as well as cross referencing with the information we are receiving from other descendants and are researching about other internees. The information we learn about one internee often has relevance in learning more about others.

Our work is entirely charitable.

Either contact us directly via our Email detailed on www.knockaloe.im, or for a look up request please start a new topic in the CENSUS and RESOURCE LOOKUP REQUEST board for the Isle of Man.

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Isle of Man Lookup Requests / Re: interment records ww1 and ww2
« on: Tuesday 23 June 15 17:59 BST (UK)  »
We are a registered charity, based on the Isle of Man, set up to provide a visitors centre and archive at the site of the largest WW1 internment camp and we would be really happy to help.

We have carried out some initial research and found the internment record for Joseph Fingerneissl, born in Eferding on 27 February 1889.

Moving to Britain to work as a waiter, Joseph met his English born wife to be, Maria (Susan), who had been employed as a housemaid at the same boarding house in Eastbourne. Sadly for the couple, after only three years of marriage, 27 year old Joseph was forced to leave his marital home in Sevenoaks to be interned as an enemy "alien", with both the start and end of his internment involving time spent at Alexandra Palace internment camp. However, unlike many of the stories we are researching, this one does appear to have a happy ending, with the couple ultimately being reunited in Sevenoaks.

Please contact us via the E mail address on our website www.knockaloe.im and we can provide you with more information about what we have found to date regarding his internment and ask you for further information you may have to allow us to research your husband's great-grandfather's story further.

We should love to add his story to our archive which will also allow us to continue to update you into the future as we progress our work collating information from various sources, as well as cross referencing with the information we are receiving from other descendants and are researching about other internees. Indeed Joseph was re-interned at Alexandra Palace only two days after another Austrian I was also researching this week who had transferred there from Knockaloe - I very much hope that information one of you has may help us all to learn more about the other.

Many thanks

Kind regards
Alison Jones
www.knockaloe.im

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