Joan & list, thank you! Found James Downhill, appears to have been born 12-4-87, P.A. 34236 now, off to do more research! Sue Downhill granddaughter of James Downhill (1875-1920) b 18 who m. Annie Owen (1876-1962) On Thu Nov 13 1:00 , cheshire-request@rootsweb.com sent: Today's Topics: 1. Weaverham Land Tax & Redemptions (Barrie Sharples) 2. Disley Conscription Appeal Tribunal Papers (Marjorie Ward) 3. Re: Weaverham Land Tax & Redemptions (Adrian Bruce) 4. Fwd: Re: Weaverham Land Tax & Redemptions (Adrian Bruce) 5. WW1 Prisoners of War (JOAN ZORN) Message: 5 Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:29:27 +0000 From: JOAN ZORN <[1]j.zorn@btinternet.com> Subject: [CHS] WW1 Prisoners of War To: CHESHIRE Mailing List <[2]CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <[3]1415834967.9841.YahooMailNeo@web87801.mail.ir2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I know from past mails that some listers have German ancestors.? In case you don't know the International Red Cross have recently made the index cards of Prisoners of the First World War available (military and civilian). I've found my husband's grandfather and great-uncle here... they were both interned at Knockaloe on IOM. [4]http://grandeguerre.icrc.org/\?\? ......be prepared to brush off your rusty French or German (that is, if your language skills are as unused as mine) The site includes all POWs and internees, so of interest to more than just descendants of? interned Germans! Joan ---- Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ References 1. javascript:top.opencompose('j.zorn@btinternet.com','','','') 2. javascript:top.opencompose('CHESHIRE@rootsweb.com','','','') 3. javascript:top.opencompose('1415834967.9841.YahooMailNeo@web87801.mail.ir2.yahoo.com','','','') 4. file://localhost/tmp/parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fgrandeguerre.icrc.org%2F%3F%3F