Hi Karen If no-one volunteers to do this for you - and I'm afraid I'm very busy right now myself - why not ask the helpful people at the local studies library? I know they have access to directories, and to an unpublished book about Southampton inns, etc. local.studies@southampton.gov.uk Good luck, Dave Jacobs ==================== At 07:57 08/04/2004, Lynn Karen wrote: >During the early part of the 20th Century, Frank and Caroline KUNTZE >managed the South Western Hotel in Canute Road, Southampton. I have them >recorded there in 1901 and 1902 - but don't know exactly when they arrived >there and when they left. Maybe someone can provide some additional bits >of information. > >The 1901 Census records the family at the South Western Hotel, Terminus >Terrace and Canute Road: >KUNTZE, Frank; Head; 52; born Germany N B Subj; Hotel Manager; Employer, >Working at Home >KUNTZE, Caroline; Wife; 45; born Birmingham; Manageress; Employer, Working >at Home >KUNTZE, Pauline; Daughter; 19; born Birmingham; Storekeeper; Working at Home >KUNTZE, Hermann; Son; 17; born Birmingham; Clerk; Working at Home > >Kelly's 1902 directory also records Frank KUNTZE as manager at the South >Western Hotel. > >Pauline Louise KUNTZE married Percy Vincent BOWYER on 22 February 1906, >and we have a photograph of a most magnificent wedding cake, which was >apparently made in the kitchens of the South Western Hotel - but was >Pauline's father still manager or did he just still have contacts there? > >Frank had died by 1911, when Kelly's records Mrs KUNTZE living at Ashlett, >Church Lane, Highfield. > >Frank and Caroline married in Aston, Birmingham - and their children were >both born there - but I don't know when they first came to >Southampton. Does the surname KUNTZE occur in the 1891 Census index for >Southampton (or indeed for anywhere else)? > >Intriguingly, the 1895 Kelly's records a Carl KUNTZE at the Turk's Head >Public House, 1 West Street, Southampton. Is Carl a >misprint/mistranscription of Caroline - or is this another Kuntze >entirely? It's not a particularly common name, although the 1881 Census >index does include other Kuntze families in the UK (but frustratingly I >can't find Frank and the 7+ months' pregnant Caroline - Pauline was born >on 22 May 1881). It's also not unknown for Kellys to get things wrong: >the 1911 edition records Percy Ernest BOWYER, auctioneer. The future >Mayor of Southampton (and husband of Pauline Louise KUNTZE mentioned >above) was actually Percy Vincent BOWYER. Does anyone know any other way >of checking the proprietor of the Turk's Head (directories for other years >adjacent to 1895, other records)? > >Many thanks in anticipation of any help, or pointers for me to follow up. > >Karen > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237