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Midlothian / Re: Edingburgh: Burial place of Russian Family
« on: Thursday 04 January 18 16:36 GMT (UK)  »
Marie Louise Prehn d1952 would be my uncle's Aunt Lou-Lou who resided in the Leamington Hotel, had nicotine-stained fingers and was so Russified that she nearly fainted when she saw a tram with "Joppa" on the destination board. In 1941 she was acting as a volunteer baby-sitter for my husband. Later she took him model aeroplanes when visiting him and his mother in Exmouth.

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Midlothian / Re: Edingburgh: Burial place of Russian Family
« on: Thursday 04 January 18 16:18 GMT (UK)  »
i have only just noticed your post online.  My late aunt was Irina Eduardovna Prehn, nee Gartier, or Gartje the older daughter of Prof Dr Med Eduard Eduardovich Gartier (or Gartje) she married Eric Thornton Prehn (in Russian termed Eric Dimitrovich) a Moscow born artist of British extraction.  In both cases the surnames are unusual, in that Uncle Eric's ancestors were Danish, whereas my grandfather's were German, the initial "H" of "Hartje" being transliterated to "G".
They bought 6 Spence St in 1948.  We found my aunt dead there on Christmas Day 1999. 
I can photograph the gravestone and send it to you.  They are indeed buried in Grange Cemetry.  My grandfather is buried in Newington Cemetry.
The Wilfred Prehn mentioned was one of Uncle Eric's younger brothers; he was the oldest of four sons.  I know very little of his father, but his mother was a member of the Thornton family who ran textile mills in pre-Revolutionary Russian.  There is material deposited in the Leeds Russian Archive.

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