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Hello and Thank you for the reply.  The person that I am looking for may very well have passed away.  He was born c1920.  I have checked my ancestry site and family search as well as any newspaper that I can access.  I do have him in a directory and a newspaper article confirming he lived on Lancaster street in 1961.  Confirming death has not be certain.  The was another gentleman living in Albany during same time as well with the same name and near same age.   Thus hoping for a directory....

Hi Anita,

I am in Canada so it would be a plane ride and then a drive to get to Emmanuel St James Church
So for now I'll perhaps try a postal letter to the church to see if that might draw a little attention.
Thanks very much for your help Anita !

Heather

Hello again Derek!

Thank you so much for looking for Ellen for me! I do appreciate it quite a bit. I am currently in the process of trying to find someone to help me locate Ellen and Wilhelm's marriage certificate in Manchester. I do know the church at which they were married and the date, but have had no luck with the parish record for 1898 being online so far. Nevertheless, given how quickly after their marriage Ellen died, I am very curious as to what happened!

I have looked through the censuses that you have mentioned and I do agree that the Ellen who appears as a servant in Devon seems most likely. I must confess that much of my interest in her situation is in fact due to her husband Wilhelm. To provide a brief background: presently I am an archaeology student in Canada, and am working on research into the personal histories of German civilians who were placed in Internment Camps under the War Measures Act during WWI. Wilhelm was unfortunately interned due to his German origins in May 1915, and died in May 1918 in a camp in British Columbia. I have located him in the 1911 census in Sheffield, living with his second (as far as I know...) wife, Stella Lizzie Cooper, and her daughter, Adela. They were married only a few days after the 1901 census in Stockport.

Again, thank you for your time and I appreciate the information. If you do happen to come across anything else about Ellen in the future that you can pass along, I would be very grateful!

Best regards,

Erin

Anita,

I'm trying to find details on a marriage that took place at Emmanuel and St James Church, Didsbury that took place Q1 1898.  Bride is Ellen Cantrell and Groom is William Wolter.

If you are able to find this marriage I would very much appreciate hearing any details that you might have.  William Wolter was actually Wilhelm Heindrich Eduard Wolter.  Sadly he died in 1918 in a Alien Internment Camp located at Vernon, British Columbia Canada.  On the registration he may be registered as a hairdresser.

Thanks very much,

Heather