Yes, indeed I did have a German great-grandfather, the grandfather of Robert, and he was interned on the Isle of Man, after the singing of the "Lusitania", on which Robert's father had served, but before WW1. John Henry Cors (possible started out as Johann Heinrich Kors) came from Hanover in the 1870s. He was married twice, and each wife had six children. Both wives were dead by the time he was interned (he was 61 by then). So his son in law was Robert Ingham who died in 1917; when John Henry became ill on the Isle of Man he was sent back to the mainland, but not to Liverpool - he went to a German convalescent home in Hertfordshire, Libury Hall, where he died. One of his own sons, Ernest, died aged 19 in 1918, after losing both legs in WW1. So, two war deaths in his family but no compassion for John Henry - and all those children left with no parents. I never met any of them and only found out about them when I started doing family history on lists like this one. So, to more fathers to remember tomorrow! Thank you, Ekloman1, for giving me the opportunity to mention them both. Marged Do I recall that you had a German grandfather incarcerated on the Isle of Mann? I had a German grandfather with a Liverpool wife and three English kids He brought the family from Falmouth to Liverpool, then jumped on a Cunarder to Canada - April 1914. The wife and children followed 2 years later. They never went back. My Lancashire (Liverpool) father was Robert Edward Mackay Campbell Ingham, born September 1912. When he was five, his father died when his ship, the "Laurentic" was torpedoed off the coast of Northern Ireland in January 1917. Robert, or Bert as he was known, went to train on the Training Ship "Indefatigable" when he was twelve, and then went to sea as an ordinary seaman, and later an Able Seaman. He had come ashore by the time I was born in 1936, but because of his background at sea, was called up for service the minute WW2 broke out, and he served right through the six years of the war, taking part in the Dunkirk business, the Battle of the Atlantic, the Malta Convoys, the Russian Convoys, and finally Tobruk. He came physically unscathed through the war, although the psychological scars of war took their toll and sadly he died in 1953, aged only 41, when I was 17. I still miss him and would love to ask him all the questions that I never had the chance to ask during our short relationship after the war. I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak about him on this list, as I am the only remaining member of my family now and very few people remember him. Marged ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3964/7672 - Release Date: 06/13/14

Sorry, his son Ernest was 29 when he died, not 19 - and I meant to say "two more fathers"! John Henry Cors (possible started out as Johann Heinrich Kors) came from Hanover in the 1870s. He was married twice, and each wife had six children. Both wives were dead by the time he was interned (he was 61 by then). So his son in law was Robert Ingham who died in 1917; when John Henry became ill on the Isle of Man he was sent back to the mainland, but not to Liverpool - he went to a German convalescent home in Hertfordshire, Libury Hall, where he died. One of his own sons, Ernest, died aged 19 in 1918, after losing both legs in WW1. So, two war deaths in his family but no compassion for John Henry - and all those children left with no parents. I never met any of them and only found out about them when I started doing family history on lists like this one. So, to more fathers to remember tomorrow! Thank you, Ekloman1, for giving me the opportunity to mention them both. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4592 / Virus Database: 3964/7676 - Release Date: 06/14/14