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    1. Re: [AUS-GERMAN] KORS/CORS surname
    2. Yvonne Izatt

    3. Marged I suggest you contact the Anglo German Family History Society http://www.art-science.com/agfhs/ and Publicity Officer and Internment Archivist for the Society Ms Janet Harris 4 Edmansons Close, Bruce Grove Tottenham, London N17 6XD Not sure where you live but most Genealogiical Societies have their journal "Mitteilungsblatt" Cheers Yvonne Izatt ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marged" <marged36@btopenworld.com> To: <AUS-GERMAN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 9:14 PM Subject: [AUS-GERMAN] KORS/CORS surname > My Great Grandfather, John Henry Cors, arrived in Liverpool in the 1870s from Germany. > It is possible that he was originally Johann Heinrich Kors, and that his name was Anglicised. > > In 1914, although he was the father of 12 British born children, he was interned on the Isle of Man at the outbreak of WW1. His health broke down, and he was returned to Hertfordshire in England, where he died, a long way from his home and family, in Libury Hall - a German Convalescent Home. > > What I would like to know is - how was he taken? Did they come to the house for him, or to the Sugar factory where he worked, or was there some other way? > > Marged > > > ==== AUS-GERMAN Mailing List ==== > For your Aus-German resources go to > http://www.ainsleehooper.com/germlinks.htm > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

    12/19/2004 01:16:16
    1. Re: [AUS-GERMAN] KORS/CORS surname
    2. Marged

    3. Thank you Yvonne - I am already a member and receive the Mitteilungsblatt. Perhaps I don't make sufficient use of this and should write to them with this. Thank you for your response Marged I suggest you contact the Anglo German Family History Society http://www.art-science.com/agfhs/ and Publicity Officer and Internment Archivist for the Society Ms Janet Harris 4 Edmansons Close, Bruce Grove Tottenham, London N17 6XD Not sure where you live but most Genealogiical Societies have their journal "Mitteilungsblatt" Cheers Yvonne Izatt

    12/18/2004 02:08:25