Dear betty and ruth
Thank you so much for your posts, and my sincere apologies it has taken me so very long to respond. I am hoping very much you will not follow my example, as I am eager to know where I fit into all this. I can tell you what I know.
Baron morris was indeed married to eva weiss, or white, my grandmother, who returned to manchester from south africa after baron bm’s death, where she herself died in 1972 and I have some very vague memories of her. Bm and eva had two children: david, my father, and ivor. Ivor had three children, gillian, giles and julia. I have one sister, linzi and one brother, elliot.
My father died of a heart attack in 1995, and it was literally days before that he happened to mention “uncle bertie”, so I had heard the name and it is quite a poignant one in my memory. I am afraid though I know even less about him than you, just that he was shot down in the war.
I don’t know of any rosalie, and I don’t know of any twins in the family.
I don’t know all that much about my grandpa, baron morris, who died a couple of years before I was born, and as is the tradition in the family I was given his name (my own first son is david). I do though have many pictures which i would be very happy to share if you want to send your email addresses to
baronfrankal@gmx.de. I think baron was a watch salesman at some point, and spent some time in geneva, as I have seen him in front of the fountain there, although it may just have been a holiday. He was ill in later life and his doctors recommended he leave the manchester climate, which is why they emigrated to south africa, with my father, although he left once he got to 18 because of the regime. I have bm’s passport (which I’d also be happy to scan over), expiry 1961, and it says he was born in london on 16 february 1897, was 5 foot 8 and a half inches (taller than me), had dark brown hair and eyes, and lists, I think “representative” as his profession (it’s har to read). He has a liverpool foreign office stamp from 1956, and a capetown one from 1961 and then I can see the passport was renewed in capetwon to 1996 for 2 rand. It is “registered for permanent residence” on 2 january 1957, with, I think, some sort of renewal in 1962 and a further stamp from durban in 1966.
I am trying to understand, and I am hoping betty you will know (as you were searching in the first place) how baron morris fits into the family you have between you painted so well. I am guessing that perhaps he is leon heiman frankal’s brother, which would give some new meaning to my own middle name.
Wishing you both the very best, baron leon frankal
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