George, More digging on Ancestry turned up two US passport applications from Hans Winterfeldt dated 1919 and 1921 which give a lot of biographical information - some of it contradictory - plus physical descriptions and photographs. Hans stated that he emigrated to the USA from England in December of either 1899 or 1900 and was naturalised a US citizen in 1909. He had a daughter, Violet, born in Rome, Italy on 2 January 1905, who was still living in 1919. He also stated that he lived in New York from 1904 to 1919, although it is clear from the passenger lists, not to mention the birth of a daughter in Rome, that he actually travelled a great deal during those years. A passenger list for the SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, departing from Southampton for New York on 10 January 1906, shows Hans accompanied by a new wife, Louise. Louise died in France in 1914: http://goo.gl/bjXMf and by 1919 he had married again, to a lady with the Christian names Evelyne Jeanne Marie, born in Lyons, France in 1875. I also found on Ancestry a short biography of Hans Winterfeldt in "Who's who in New York City and State: a biographical dictionary of contemporaries", 1911 edition, which shows that he was born in Berlin on 9 February 1873 and educated in Berlin and Heidelberg. (His passport applications note a scar on his left cheek - a Heidelberg duelling scar?) He served in the German Cuirassier Regiment. His second wife's maiden name was Louise Druce. >From various documents it appears that his permanent home was the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York. Caroline Gurney www.carosfamily.com