Very kind of you. The information raises some questions. What was a British subject, in particular a female, doing in Germany during WWI? Was she a nurse who may have been captured? Was she the wife of someone who had diplomatic relations (or other) with the Germans? Fascinating. Brings up all sorts of ideas. Was she caught up in the war prior to 1914 and could not get back to England? Graham Melbourne Oz At 10:03 PM 6/02/2011, you wrote: >Hi all > >I'm new to this list (but not to Rootsweb) - and I joined to share some >information that I stumbled across yesterday.

On 06/02/2011 11:27, Graham Price wrote: > Very kind of you. The information raises some questions. What was a > British subject, in particular a female, doing in Germany during WWI? > Was she a nurse who may have been captured? Was she the wife of > someone who had diplomatic relations (or other) with the Germans? > Fascinating. Brings up all sorts of ideas. Was she caught up in the > war prior to 1914 and could not get back to England? Well... she was 87 years old, so probably wouldn't have been in a position to travel back to England when war broke out even if she had wanted to. If she is the Mary Jenkins I found in the 1851 census then she was in service. There is something written in her death entry which I couldn't quite make out but which looks like it could be "Kinderfrau" - i.e., someone who looks after children. So the most likely scenario is that she was in service in Germany and stayed there after retirement. What's interesting is that she died in Schwerin (the provincial capital) but was buried in Ludwigslust, some 20 miles away. Maybe enemy aliens, even frail elderly ones, were interned in Schwerin and her employers brought her "home" for burial? But all this is probably well outside the scope of this Shropshire list!! Angelika