Hi Hanno, I cannot give you any information on his literary career but I can give you a few dates. He was born Oct-Dec 1880 in Manchester. From FreeBMD http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Births Dec 1880 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KENDALL Oswald Chorlton 8c 720 You can use this information to get his birth certificate if required. Chorlton Registration district is part of Manchester. In 1881 he is living with his parents and brother John in Ashley, Cheshire, England. You can access this census on the FamilySearch site. I cannot find him in 1891 but he went from Liverpool to New York on the Servia in 1892 arriving 26th Sep. with parents and brother and also Agnes Murray 65 widow. I wonder why she gave her maiden name? In 1900 he is on the U.S. census in San Francisco, California with parents and brother and a Japanese servant. His parents and Oswald returned to London, England on the Mesaba arriving 17 Dec 1902. The only marriage to an Orton is Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marriages Dec 1919 (>99%) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ives Thomas J Palmer Paddington 1a 230 Kendall Oswald Orton Paddington 1a 230 Orton Kate Kendall Paddington 1a 230 Palmer Margaret M _ Ives Paddington 1a 230 (That means the record shows he married Kate or Margaret.) There is a matching death Jan-Mar 1957 Marylebone, London. Hope this helps, Christine -----Original Message----- From: Dr. Hanno V.J. Kolbe Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 5:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENG-MAN] Oswald KENDALL oo Kate Orton Dear List-Members, Short intro: I am German, doing my own family research with a Group of 80 in South-Eastern Europe (Niederschlesien/Lower Silesia) and have the following question (for a friend of mine who researches a person by the name of): Oswald KENDALL (born in Manchester) probably 1870-1890. His father was John KENDALL, his mother Agnes MURRAY (marriage date unknown) 1910 Oswald KENDALL married Kate Orton (place unknown). Oswald KENDALL may have spent 14 years as a youngster in the US. (I have not yet searched the Ellis Island Records) In May 1915 he joined the British Army. 1917 he was POW in Germany. In the 1930ies he lived in London. He wrote adventure books for boys (books bublished in the US): Captain Hawks: Master Mariner. A story of the sea, told by George Henry Grummet, mate of the schooner Effie Dean, London, Stanley Paul & Co., 1912. Captain Protheroe's fortune;a story of the sea as told to the author by George Henry Grummet, mate of the Schooner Effie Dean, Chicago, A.C. McClurg, 1913. The romance of the Martin Connor, Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916, before The Youth Companion The Stormy Petrel. A novel, Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925. The Missing Island. A novel. Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Simmonds of the Schooner “Lucy Anne”. A novel. London, New York, T. Nelson, 1926. The voyage of the Martin Connor, Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931 (entspricht The romance ... von 1916) May I ask you whether anybody has information, how I could obtain more biographic data about Oswald KENDALL ? Enzyclopedias (British writers) did not yield anything and the web (surface) has been searched. Sincerely Hanno V. J. Kolbe