Harry Freeman lived at Rose Bush Court, Parkhill Rd- died 1984

[HarrysGirl2]

Can anyone help me to solve a mystery please.

Harry Freeman died in May 1984 age 76.  He lived at number 13, Rose Bush Court, Parkhill Road, Hampstead, London from 1969 until he died in 1984. 

I need to learn more about Harry.  It is 26 years since he died, but perhaps he was a friend of your parents, or grandparents, or perhaps a neighbour.  Perhaps he drank in your local pub...

He was buried at Bushey Cemetery by the United Synagogue after they search in vein to find some family. Harry was a bachelor.  He was Jewish, but I don't think he was very religious. 

Harry left Liverpool where he was born in 1907 as Harry Freedman.  He enjoyed ballroom dancing & I'm told he often went to afternoon Tea Dances with a neighbour - Mrs Eva Schrier who also lived at Rose Bush Court until Eva died in the mid 1990's.

I would love to hear from any person who remembers Harry, or would be able to tell me the venue where Tea Dances would likely be held in the 1970's - 1980's in the Parkhill Road area. 

I would also like to know where Harry lived before he moved into Rose Bush Court when the complex opened in 1969.  I am trying to trace the 17 year gap in his life from when he left Liverpool, which was sometime in the mid 1950's.

Thank you

HarrysGirl2

[[Ray]]

Hi

I don't know if they still happen but .........

Royal Opera House
Covent Garden
Waldorf
Finsbury Town Hall
Spitalfields Market (used to)

How about one of the (local-ish) synagogues?
They may know or put one on?
Do you anything about whether he kept his faith?
One of the synagogues may actually remember him?

Regards
Ray

Amendment -
http://www.timeout.com/london/clubs/event/205767/afternoon-tea-dance

[HarrysGirl2]

Thanks Ray, I'll check out these suggested venues.

I've checked the local synagogues & he is not known to them.  I don't think Harry did keep his faith.  Rose Bush Court is managed by SP Housing Ass, but owned by The Humanist Ass.  I don't know if that is significant or not. SP Housing  only keep their records for 3 years & there is no record of him being a member of the British Human Ass, but that might just mean no records have been found.

Thank you again

HG2

[[Ray]]

Hi

Is it worth seeing who reported his death?
Have you got his DeathCert? What does it say?

If he is in Bushey then I would have thought he was known to a synagogue.
Is it worth asking UnSyn who informed them?

Ray

[carol8353]

A tea dance could have been held anywhere.My mum used to attend them at the local leisure centre,working mens club and sometimes in a school hall.

Have you got the electoral roll info for the few years before he died to find if anyone else was living at the same address?

Carol

[HarrysGirl2]

He lived alone Carol. 

His flat at Rose Bush Court was a single occupancy flat & he was there from 1969 when the complex opened. 

I'm trying to trace his previous address, but there were so many Harry Freeman's living in London. So it's a needle in a hay stack without any further info.

HR2

[HarrysGirl2]

Hi

Is it worth seeing who reported his death?
Have you got his DeathCert? What does it say?

If he is in Bushey then I would have thought he was known to a synagogue.
Is it worth asking UnSyn who informed them?

Ray

Yes, I have his DC. The informant was a member of the hospital staff.  He was buried 10 days after he died after failing to find any family.  He was buried at Bushey in a stone-less grave by the UN.  Mrs Eva Schrier & the warden of Rose Bush Court, attended his funeral.  He disappeared from Liverpool in the mid 1950's & his family never knew where he went.  His siblings had died before him, but he did have nephews & nieces in Liverpool & Australia, but they never knew where he had gone & had not seen him since they were small children.

HG2

I'm 250 miles from London & don't have access to London's electoral rolls.  I would need to go to the local library, to where he lived & look at the electoral rolls for Harry Freeman pre 1969 & then post 1969, to see who had moved from their previous address.  I could be there for weeks.  But if I could find his previous address he might have lived with somebody who perhaps had died, or neighbours might be able to give me info about him.

HG2