G’day Wendy Many thanks for your email. I’m still researching the adventures of my step-father’s first wife, Antonia Lyon-Smith, (1925-2010) in Occupied France during WWII. There is a mention in her MI5 file from an interrogation of Waldemar Lenz, a member of the Gestapo’s Sonderkommando Rote Kapelle, that “an uncle was the Governor of the Bahamas”, so I was looking at her ancestry in order to identify him. She didn’t have such an uncle, and I’ve worked out that the “uncle” belonged to the famous author P.G. Wodehouse, who as part of his conditions as a paroled civilian internee was reporting once a week to the police, the “police station” being the Gestapo at the Rue des Saussaies in Paris. (Wodehouse’s wife was arrested one night for being out after curfew, but instead of being taken to the lock-up, was escorted back to her hotel because the German patrol commander was a Wodehouse fan!) There were several English speakers in the Sonderkommando and so I worked out that there must have been at least one general conversation between Antonia, Wodehouse, Lenz and other English speakers, during which the “uncle” (actually a third cousin) was mentioned by Wodehouse and which was misattributed two years later by Lenz to Antonia. However, in researching Antonia’s ancestry, I’ve come across several trees on-line (no rants please Dave H!) which show that Antonia’s ancestry in North America is extremely interesting and apart from Isaac Hellmuth, includes: General Thomas Evans (1776-1863) who served with Isaac Brock and married into the Ogden loyalist family, one member of whom was Peter Skene Ogden. < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Evans_(British_Army_officer) > < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Skene_Ogden > Henry John Boulton < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_John_Boulton > The on-line trees suggest that Antonia’s is descended from Wall Street Dutch, the Spanish Netherlands and early (1640s) colonists of Massachuesttts. What I’m doing now, is fleshing out the documentation to prove the validity of these family trees and prove the connections as there is no one tree on-line that connects the Hellmuth, Evans, Boulton, Ogden families etc, so that I can make reference to it in my proposed book. The unindexed LDS “non-catholic” collection of OPRs for Quebec is helping out here, which is what I was doing last night when I found the Fermanagh stray, as in the 1850s Isaac Hellmuth was the Incumbent of the CofE&I parish of Sherbrooke in Quebec. Regards David Armstrong Maylands Western Australia From: wendy stevenson via Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:21 AM To: Dave H ; fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD To David Armstrong David, you mentioned Isaac Hellmuth, who became Bishop of Huron in your post. His family is of London Ontario. What exactly are you looking for? Wendy On Monday, March 9, 2015, Dave H via <fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com> wrote: > On 09/03/2015 12:24, DSA2003 via wrote: > > (Given the discussion about changing religion earlier today, I thought > I’d add that the Incumbent of this parish for whose family I’m searching, > was Isaac Hellmuth, a Polish Jew who converted to the Church of England and > Ireland, and ended his career as Bishop of Huron). > > > > > > David Armstrong > > > > Maylands > > Western Australia --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com