Hi David, Sorry I can offer no help with your query but thought you might like to know that "seelig" is German for 'blessed'. Maybe you have a German among your ancestors? I too have german ancestry (Reneker) but have been unable to find the link so far. My gr.gr.grfr William Reneker Astley poss. had a german mother (?or Grandmother?) but I can find no trace of his parents' marriage or of his baptism (born approx 1810-15 in Lancashire). All the best. Rita. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Heywood" <david@heatherkop.freeserve.co.uk> To: <ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 11:23 AM Subject: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] James Heywood in Rhodes I wonder if anyone can help with tracing my difficult gt grandfather and his roots. >From the census data, James HEYWOOD was born abt 1832 in Middleton (c1861 >London), Rhodes (Middlesex, sic, in c1871 London) and Rhodes when he was >Lodging in Middleton in c1881 with his second London born wife and their 3 >children still in London. He is variously described as a Machine printer >on calico, colour printer and commercial traveller etc. His first wife in >the 1861 census was 10 years older than him, born Goodwood Sussex and also >described as 'Do' ie a machine printer on calico. I have assumed he trained >in Rhodes/ Middleton before moving to London but have not found him in the >1841 & 1851 cd's but many sheets are unreadable, or in the transcribed >damaged pages. Nor have I found either marriage or a death for his first >wife before his second marriage by the time of the 1871 census. He named >my grandfather Henry Halliwell (various spellings) Heywood and his sister >Florence Seelig Heywood, two interesting second names. Any help or advice would be very gratefully received David Fishguard Pembs ==== ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, you should send the command "unsubscribe" to ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) To switch from one mode to the other, you should unsubscribe from one and then subscribe to the other. If you want messages to stop, you should simply unsubscribe. -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 09/09/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.20/95 - Release Date: 09/09/2005

Hi Rita Many thanks for your info on the German meaning of Seelig which is new to me. I rather expect a German connection somewhere in the Heywood line if I ever get past James. I acquired some early German stamps from my father and a very interesting memorial card which I do not remember seeing while I could still ask about it and how it was. The inscription reads 'Sur Erinnerung an den Well-krieg 1914-1917'. It appears to be commemorating a gunner who served in the First World War from 1914 to 1917. Four flags are shown, clockwise from the bottom left we have: - Black (blue?) white and red horizontal stripes; white green and red horizontal stripes; a white star and crescent on a red flag ; and a black (blue?) and yellow flag with inset a green white and red Horizontal striped flag. In the middle is a tin plate photo that has suffered badly from the production process. The visible image is just under an inch in diameter and shows a soldier's head in uniform. The card measures 3¼x4½" and the illustration was also embossed during production. David >----- Original Message ----- > Sorry I can offer no help with your query but thought you might like to > know > that "seelig" is German for 'blessed'. Maybe you have a German among your > ancestors? > > I too have german ancestry (Reneker) but have been unable to find the link > so far. My gr.gr.grfr William Reneker Astley poss. had a german mother > (?or > Grandmother?) but I can find no trace of his parents' marriage or of his > baptism (born approx 1810-15 in Lancashire). > > All the best. > Rita. > ----- Original Message ----- > I wonder if anyone can help with tracing my difficult gt grandfather and > his > roots. > >>From the census data, James HEYWOOD was born abt 1832 in Middleton (c1861 >>London), Rhodes (Middlesex, sic, in c1871 London) and Rhodes when he was >>Lodging in Middleton in c1881 with his second London born wife and their 3 >>children still in London. He is variously described as a Machine printer >>on calico, colour printer and commercial traveller etc. His first wife in >>the 1861 census was 10 years older than him, born Goodwood Sussex and also >>described as 'Do' ie a machine printer on calico. I have assumed he >>trained >>in Rhodes/ Middleton before moving to London but have not found him in the >>1841 & 1851 cd's but many sheets are unreadable, or in the transcribed >>damaged pages. Nor have I found either marriage or a death for his first >>wife before his second marriage by the time of the 1871 census. He named >>my grandfather Henry Halliwell (various spellings) Heywood and his sister >>Florence Seelig Heywood, two interesting second names. > > Any help or advice would be very gratefully received > > David > Fishguard Pembs

Hi Rita Many thanks. You are quite correct, looking at the card again I can the 't' but would not have guessed the 'Z'. Regards David ----- Original Message ----- ....it should read Zur Erinnerung an den WelTkrieg....... In remembrance of the World War.....