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Remembering my grandmother on her birthday

24 Sunday May 2020

Posted by Anne Young in Boltz, Manock

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My maternal grandmother, Charlotte Boltz née Manock, second daughter of Emil Manock (1883 – 1966) and Helene Manock née Peters (1889 -1944), was born in Berlin, Germany, on 24 May 1912. She died in Canberra, Australia, on 25 May 1988. Today is the 108th anniversary of her birthday.

  • 1920 Charlotte 2nd from left in Heidelberg
  • 1920 card caption
  • 1930 Charlotte standing on right
at the Kanu Club
Charlotte Manock married Hans Boltz on 24 April 1937 at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche in Berlin
  • 1937 Charlotte Boltz outside her flat in Berlin
  • abt 1940 Charlotte with her parents and daughter in pram
My grandmother in her back garden in Canberra in the 1960s

Birthdays were always very special celebrations in my grandmother’s house and she cooked the most marvellous cakes. I particularly remember her Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte and in the past I have cooked it in memory of her from the recipe she used.

  • My grandmother’s copy of “Backen Macht Freude” published 1930
  • Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte

Related posts

  • the name Charlotte
  • Kanu-Club Wannsee
  • K is for Kennengelernt
  • Z is for Zehlendorf
  • O is for Oma cooking from Dr Oetker’s “Backen Macht Freude”
  • O is for Oma cooking from Dr Oetker’s “Backen Macht Freude” (I found my grandmother’s cookbook)

The Advent Angel Orchestra

27 Tuesday Mar 2018

Posted by Anne Young in 52 ancestors, Berlin, Boltz, Christmas, Manock

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I asked my mother to write about the angels that she displays each Christmas.

The Advent Angel Orchestra

Beginning in late November or early December, the weeks before Christmas are the season of Advent. Though the major display is the tree at Christmas, it is traditional in Germany for candles to be placed on a wreath, with a new one lit on each of the four Sundays. They are accompanied by suitable decorations, and families gather for afternoon coffee and cake.

Images of angels are one form of decoration for Advent, and Wendt and Kuhn of the Erzgebirge in Saxony have been making models for just over a hundred years; their green wings, each with eleven white dots, are a special and unifying feature. When Christa was born in 1939 her family already had an orchestra of angels, and the musicians and their conductor were set out each year.

Advent 1937

Advent display ca.1937, probably at the house of Christa’s aunt Helene Manock

When Christa came to Australia with her parents Hans and Charlotte in 1950 they brought a small group of the angels with them – including three trumpeters and a triangle-player – and the family continued to celebrate Advent in the new country.

Original angels from 1937 in 2017

Members of the original Boltz orchestra, Christmas 2017

From 1989, however, with the reunification, Christa and Rafe have been able to travel more easily to the east – the old DDR [German Democratic Republic], and the orchestra has grown considerably. The originals, now eighty years old, still perform, but they have been joined by candle- and lantern-bearers, there are new stringed instruments – including harps and a lute – while the percussionists have gongs and a tambourine and the brass has a trombone, a French horn and a small tuba. There are also an accordion player and a guitarist, and a stronger cohort of singers – three of them supported by bluebirds.

Fuller angel orchestra 2017

The fuller orchestra, Christmas 2017

Recruitment continues.

the name Charlotte

02 Friday Mar 2018

Posted by Anne Young in 52 ancestors, Charlotte Young, Dana, Manock, Wilkins, Young

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There are 42 people in my tree named Charlotte including my daughter.  She was named after my grandmother Charlotte Hedwig Boltz née Manock (1912-1988)

Charlotte Manock

In naming Charlotte we also remembered her fourth great grandmother Charlotte de Crespigny née Dana (1820-1904) and her great great grand aunt Charlotte Wilkins née Young (1861-1925). Charlotte Wilkins brought up Jack and Cecil Young, my Charlotte’s great grandfather, after their mother had died at the time of Cecil’s birth.

 

The dates of birth of the Charlottes in my tree are as follows

  • 1700-1749 : 2
  • 1750-1799 : 9
  • 1800-1849 : 18
  • 1850-1899 : 8
  • 1900-1949 : 4
  • 1950-1999 : 1

Of the 5,579 people whose birth year is recorded in my family tree, 13% were born before 1800, 56% were born in the nineteenth century, and 53% were born in the twentieth century. The name Charlotte is disproportionately popular in my family in the nineteenth century.

The name Charlotte dates at least  from the fourteenth century and is the feminine form of Charles. Two notable Charlottes were:

  • Charlotte of Bourbon, Queen of Cyprus (1388-1422)
  • Charlotte of Savoy (1441-1483) wife of King Louis XI of France.

The United Kingdom Office for National Statistics has an interactive graphic of trends in popular baby names since 1904 at https://visual.ons.gov.uk/baby-names-since-1904-how-has-yours-performed/

Charlotte was one of the top 100 names in the early part of the twentieth century but from 1915 was not on the list until 1975.

CharlotteONS graph 1904 2015

Charlotte : the popularity of the name Charlotte as ranked in the top 100 names for girls in the United Kingdom graphed for every ten years between 1904 and 1994 and for each year from 1996 onwards from https://visual.ons.gov.uk/baby-names-since-1904-how-has-yours-performed/

Currently Charlotte is an extremely popular baby name in Australia being the most popular name for girls in 2016.

O is for Oma cooking from Dr Oetker’s "Backen Macht Freude"

04 Saturday Nov 2017

Posted by Anne Young in Boltz, Canberra, cooking, Manock

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Today I finally found my copy of “Backen Macht Freude!” (Baking makes Joy!). It once belonged to my grandmother. It is a well-worn book and the binding is held together with sticky tape. I couldn’t read the spine, so it was hard to find on my bookshelves. From the cover, it appears to be one of the original edition, first published in 1930. I can’t find Schwarzwalder kirschtorte in the index but I have noticed Frankfurter Kranz and Sachertorte as well as Obsttorte (fruit tart). “Backen Macht Freude!” is printed in Blackletter (Gothic) script, no longer commonly used.

Backen Macht Freude

“Backen Macht Freude” published 1930

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I didn’t actually call my grandmother Charlotte Boltz née Manock (1912-1988) Oma, Grandma in German, when I was young. Although she was from Germany, to me she was just Grandma. However, my cousins called her Oma and my children know of her as Oma, distinguishing her from the many other Grandmas in the family.

My grandmother used to bake wonderful cakes, many of them from recipes in this book by the Dr Oetker company. I particularly remember her baking Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, Black Forest cherry cake.

My mother’s copy of Dr Oetker’s cookbook Backen macht Freude, (Cooking with joy). It probably dates from the early 1950s. It cost DM1.80. The Deutschmark was introduced in 1948.
The recipe for Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte page 104. (click on image to enlarge)
The recipe continued on page 105.

The recipe calls for a biscuit base, then a sponge. The cherries are sour cherries.

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Z is for Zehlendorf

29 Saturday Apr 2017

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2017, Berlin, Boltz, Manock

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My maternal grandparents, Hans Boltz (1910-1992) and Charlotte  Manock (1912-1988) were married in 1937.

Their first home was in Eschershauser Weg 27, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin. Zehlendorf is a district in the south-west of Berlin near the Krumme Lanke lake, on the edge of the Grunewald forest.

They lived in a  flat (apartment) in a housing estate known as Onkel Toms Hütte, served by a  U-Bahn station named after the 1852 anti-slavery novel. The estate, designed by several by well-known architects, among them Bruno Taut and Hugo Härings, was built between 1926 and 1932 . The apartment blocks had communal back gardens that led into the forest.

My grandmother, Charlotte Boltz, outside her new home in 1937

 

Eschershauser Weg in 1937

 

Eschershauser Weg in the snow about 1937
from Google maps
A satellite view of Eschershauser Weg showing how it is set in the forest and the communal grounds surrounding the flats from Google maps

According to Google Maps a U-Bahn leaves for Berlin Zoo every ten minutes. The journey takes just over half an hour. Charlotte’s parents lived near Berlin Zoo.

Public transport from Eschershauser Weg to Berlin Zoo from Google maps

Hans’s parents lived at Florastraße 13 in Steglitz. His father, Fritz Boltz (1879-1954) was a live-in janitor at a school there. There is still a school at that address. Florastraße is about six kilometres away from Eschershauser Weg and it takes about half an hour to get there by public transport.

From Eschershauser Weg, Zehlendorf, to Florastraße, Steglitz per Google maps
I visited Eschershauser Weg in 1982
The back of the flats overlook a communal garden with a sand pit and play space. Each flat has a balcony. Photographed 1982.

 

The sandpit at the back of the flats in 1982
My mother playing in the sandpit at Christmas time. She was three years old.
My mother playing in the sandpit aged 4
My mother on her sled at Christmas when she was three years old. The balconies at the back of the flats can be seen.

My mother told me about tobogganing on her sled down a very steep slope with two stones at the bottom of the path that you had to avoid. I found the path and stones in 1982. The slope was not big but it must have seemed so to a small child.

the sloping path with stones at the bottom in 1982

The flat was very close to the forest.

The forest was a very short walk from the flat in 1982

 

 

My grandmother pushing my mother in a pram near the flat with her parents Emil and Helene Manock

Related posts

  • K is for Kennengelernt
  • Kanu-Club Wannsee

Further reading

  • http://patrickbaty.co.uk/2013/03/16/onkel-toms-hutte-uncle-toms-cabin/
  • http://blog.visitberlin.de/en/874-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-and-yet-so-close-the-u3-to-onkel-toms-huette.html
  • http://www.lostmodern.net/biglinks/en_onkeltom_web.pdf
  • http://www.secretcitytravel.com/berlin-september-2014/berlin-bruno-taut-modernist-bauhaus-housing-estate.shtml
  • https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkel_Toms_Hütte_(Berlin) in German

O is for Oma cooking from Dr Oetker’s "Backen Macht Freude"

18 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2016, Boltz, Canberra, cooking, Manock

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I didn’t actually call my grandmother Charlotte Boltz née Manock (1912-1988) Oma, Grandma in German, when I was young. Although she was from Germany, to me she was just Grandma. However, my cousins called her Oma and my children know of her as Oma, distinguishing her from the many other Grandmas in the family.

My grandmother used to bake wonderful cakes, many of them from recipes in this book by the Dr Oetker company. I particularly remember her baking Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, Black Forest cherry cake.

My mother’s copy of Dr Oetker’s cookbook Backen macht Freude, (Cooking with joy). It probably dates from the early 1950s. It cost DM1.80. The Deutschmark was introduced in 1948.
The recipe for Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte page 104. 
The recipe continued on page 105.

The recipe calls for a biscuit base, then a sponge. The cherries are sour cherries.

There were sour cherry trees at the bottom of my grandparent’s garden. We would pick them each year around Christmas tree. Grandma bottled them. There were always cherries bottled and stored for cake making.

Some of my grandmother’s cakes for a birthday in May 1985, quite probably my grandmother’s birthday. The cake on the left hand side is Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte. The other cake is a chocolate and almond cake. My grandmother was very fond of lily of the valley on the right hand side of the photo.

Yesterday I baked a cake from Dr Oetker’s recipe. I was pleased with the result. The taste takes me back to my childhood. The cake is very light, not too chocolately and the sour cherries are beautifully tangy.

Baking the cake

Making the biscuit base. It seemed very dry despite the egg white but it did come together after being chilled.

 

the biscuit mixture is chilled and rested
pressed into the base of the springform tin
my baked biscuit base fitted perfectly onto my cake plate

Baking the sponge

the egg yolks are beaten with a little warm water til they are pale and creamy
egg whites are beaten separately
fold egg whites in – I do it a third at a time
add sifted dry ingredients
and fold in gently
the baked sponge
upside down cooling – I am pleased with the texture

The filling

Assembling the cake

The finished product

Essential ingredients

I felt fortunate to be able to buy in Ballarat both sour cherries and Kirschwasser from the Schwarzwald

Further reading

Translation of the recipe into English by Reddit users at the request of somebody else whose Grandma used to make this cake: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/13jtsz/my_grandma_who_past_away_used_to_make_a_black/

K is for Kennengelernt

12 Tuesday Apr 2016

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2016, Berlin, Manock, Wedding

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My grandparents Hans Boltz and Charlotte Boltz née Manock recalled and celebrated the day they met, 24 January 1930, for the rest of their lives. The day of such first meetings is known in German as Kennengelernttag, ‘the day of becoming acquainted’. I recall it being a special day with them making toasts at each anniversary.

Charlotte Manock as a young woman

Charlotte, eighteen at that time, had gone with her family to a tea-dance, Tanztee , possibly at a restaurant by one of the Berlin lakes. Hans went up to the group and asked Charlotte to dance, and from that time they were committed to one another.

A five-o´clock tea and dance at the Berlin Eden Hotel in the 1930s. Image from https://kreuzberged.com/2016/03/30/berlin-past-five-oclock-at-the-eden/
The Hotel Eden would have been close to where the Manock family lived near the Berlin Zoo.

My grandparents would not have been dancing outside in January.
Tea Dance, Tegernsee 1932 photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt and in the collection of Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Lufthansa German Airlines retrieved from http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/art/221655

Charlotte and Hans were from different backgrounds. Charlotte’s father was a prosperous businessman and Hans’s father, who had been in the army, worked as a school caretaker.

In 1931 Hans was a cadet [Anwärter] in the Prussian Geological Survey [Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt]. He had spent four years at the Technical School of Cartography in the State Institute for Mapping, and joined the Geological Survey in 1930. His training lasted another three years until he took and passed the examination for the Cartographic Service in March 1933. He was then appointed to a non-tenured post, on three months notice, which he held until May 1937, when he received a permanent position, subject to formal confirmation which was given in January 1938.

Charlotte and Hans married in April 1937, not long after he had received his appointment in the cartographic service. They had been engaged for four years and known each other for seven.

Charlotte and Hans following their marriage in 1937 outside the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche

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Kanu-Club Wannsee

05 Saturday Dec 2015

Posted by Anne Young in Berlin, Boltz, Manock, sport

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My maternal grandparents, Hans Boltz (1910-1992) and Charlotte Manock (1912-1988), were members of the Kanu-Club Wannsee in Berlin before they were married.  The following pictures are photos from their photo album.

Wannsee is in the south-west of Berlin, Germany. The River Havel forms two lakes separated by a bridge: the Großer Wannsee (Greater Wannsee) and the Kleiner Wannsee (Little Wannsee).  There is still a Wannseer Kanu-Club located on the Kleiner Wannsee which takes canoe hiking trips.

Kanu-Club Wannsee 1931
1931- Hans Boltz is in the middle back (wearing glasses)

Hans Boltz is second from the front

1935

Kanu-Club Wannsee 1935
waterfight
Hans Boltz is in overcoat with glasses
Charlotte Manock at the Kanu-Club
Hans and Charlotte
camping with canoes
Charlotte camping
Charlotte camping

canoes in a lock
Charlotte

This week’s Sepia Saturday blogging theme is Robinson Crusoe. There seems to be some mention of canoes in the novel giving my post a tenuous link to the theme.

My grandmother’s cousins

13 Tuesday May 2014

Posted by Anne Young in Boltz, Cavenagh, Cavenagh-Mainwaring, Champion de Crespigny, Cudmore, geneameme, Kathleen, Mainwaring, Manock

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My grandmother, Kathleen Cudmore (1908-2013), had many cousins. Her sister Rosemary claimed they had ninety.

Their father, Arthur Murray Cudmore, was one of thirteen children and their mother, Kathleen Mary Cavenagh-Mainwaring, was one of ten.

Two of the bridesmaids at my grandmother’s 1933 wedding, Mary and Dymphna Toll, were her cousins. SOCIAL NOTES. (1933, June 12). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 – 1954), p. 5. Retrieved May 12, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article46980229

The children of James Francis Cudmore (1837-1912) and Margaret née Budge (1845-1912):

  • James Kenneth Cudmore (1867-1948) had four children
  • Margaret Jane Cudmore (1869-died young)
  • (Arthur Murray Cudmore, Kathleen’s father, had two children)
  • Violet Mary Cudmore (1872-1947) had three children
  • Kenneth de Lacy Cudmore (1874-1940) had two sons
  • Dorothea Nevill Cudmore (1876-1925) had one son
  • Thomas Cecil Cudmore (1877-1926) had no children
  • Rosa Florence Cudmore (1879-1954) had five children
  • Daniel Cashel Cudmore (1881-1966) had one child
  • Alexandrina Budge Cudmore (1882-1953) had three children
  • Mary Jane Cudmore (1883-1884) died as an infant
  • Mary Paringa Cudmore (1887-1952) had two children
  • Robert Milo Cudmore (1889-1969) had four children

There were 25 Cudmore cousins for the two daughters of Arthur Murray Cudmore.

The children of Wentworth Cavenagh (1822-1895) and Ellen Jane née Mainwaring (1845-1920):

  • James Gordon Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1865 – 1938) had four children
  • Eva Mainwaring Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1867 – 1941) had two children
  • Mabel Alice Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1868 – 1944) had two children
  • Wentworth Rowland Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1869 – 1933) died without issue
  • Orfeur Charles Cavenagh (1872 – 1890) died without issue
  • (Kathleen Mary Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1874 – 1951), Kathleen’s mother, had two children)
  • Hugh Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1875 – 1953) had three children
  • Helen Maud Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1877 – 1918) had three children
  • Alice Mainwaring Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1879 – 1952) had two children
  • Gertrude Lucy Cavenagh-Mainwaring (1882 – 1968 ) had one child

There were seventeen Cavenagh-Mainwaring cousins for the two daughters of Kathleen Mary Cavenagh-Mainwaring.

In total my grandmother Kathleen had 42 first cousins.

Some of my grandmother’s first cousins once removed. Members of the Cudmore family who owned “Adare” at Victor Harbor. Back Row, l-r: Roland, Henry, Mary (Minnie), Paul. Front Row, l-r: Collier, Martha, Daniel H;, Danny (on footstool), Milo DATE ca.1900 From the State Library of South Australia image B 48077. Daniel Henry Cashel Cudmore (1844-1913) was the brother of my grandmother’s grandfather.

As their grandparents were all from large families, Kathleen and her sister Rosemary had many second cousins. Their great grandparents on the Cudmore side had 52 grandchildren, including the 13 children of James Francis Cudmore. 39 of those grandchildren were the first cousins of Kathleen’s father Arthur Murray Cudmore and thus my grandmother’s first cousins once removed. The children of the 39 cousins were Kathleen’s second cousins.

On the Budge side, Kathleen’s grandmother, Margaret Budge, had two brothers and two sisters but only one of the brothers and one of the sisters had children and there were only five grandchildren other than the thirteen Cudmore grandchildren.

Kathleen’s grandfather Wentworth Cavenagh had six brothers and sisters. Only one brother had two sons who survived. 

On the Mainwaring side, although Kathleen’s great grandparents had seven children, only one, Kathleen’s grandmother Ellen Jane Mainwaring had children. Thus Kathleen had no second cousins from this side of the family.

In total my grandmother Kathleen had 46 first cousins once removed. This calculation does not include the younger generation, the children of her first cousins.

My own cousins

I have only two first cousins, the daughters of my mother’s sister. My father was an only child and my mother had one sister. These cousins do not have children so there are no first cousins once removed downwards.

My mother had no first cousins. Her father was an only child and her mother’s sister had no children. She is, however, close to a cousin of my grandmother’s, and also to her children, my mother’s second cousins.

My father had one cousin on his mother’s side of the family, the Cudmore side, with whom he remains close. There was another boy who died as an infant. On his father’s side, the de Crespigny side, my father has four first cousins from his father’s sisters and five cousins from his father’s half-sister. In total I have eleven first cousins once removed on my father’s side of the family.

As for my second cousins, my great aunt Nancy had five grand children. My great aunt Margaret had six grandchildren. I am not sure of the number of grandchildren my great aunt Charlotte has (I must follow this up with her). On the Cudmore side, my great aunt Rosemary had three grand children. I have fourteen second cousins in addition to the grand children of my great aunt Charlotte.

Geneablogging

This post was inspired by Randy Seaver’s post some weeks ago asking How many cousins do you know you have?

I enjoyed Alex Daw’s and Caitlin Gow’s responses and thought I would have a go myself.

I wanted to calculate my great aunt Rosemary’s statement about the number of cousins she had. 42 first cousins and 46 first cousins once removed is certainly a lot. Calculating the number of second cousins is a large task that remains for another day.

I found it very interesting that both my grandmother Kathleen’s parents came from large families but their children, my great grandparents and my various great great aunts and uncles on my grandmother’s side, all had small families. There was a very rapid shift in the size of families within a generation.

I am more interested in tracing my family tree backwards than keeping track of the present generation but I am always delighted to hear from them and would be thrilled to share what I have learned of our family history.

The challenge was:

1) Take both sets of your grandparents and figure out how many first cousins you have, and how many first cousins removed (a child or grandchild of a first cousin) you have.

2) Extra Credit: Take all four sets of your great-grandparents and figure out how many second cousins you have, and how many second cousins removed you have.

HINT: Make a Descendants Chart with your genealogy software program!

3) Tell us the grandparents and great-grandparents names, but don’t give the name of living cousins unless you want to.

4) Are there any of those lines that you don’t know all of the cousins names? Do you care? 

5) Tell us about them in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post of your own. Be sure to drop a comment to this post to link to your work.

Sepia Saturday: Emil and Helene Manock at the piano

08 Saturday Feb 2014

Posted by Anne Young in Berlin, Manock, Sepia Saturday

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This week’s Sepia Saturday prompt is a photograph of two people at a piano.

Here is a photograph of my great grandparents Helene née Peters (1889 – 1944) and her husband Emil Manock (1883 -1966).

Emil and Helene’s first child, also Helene, was born in 1909. The presence or absence of a child does not help much – the couple may have chosen to be photographed without their children.  If the photograph was taken in 1909, Helene was twenty and Emil was twenty-six years old.

Photographs are often dated by looking at the hairstyle and clothes. Helene’s hairstyle is a little less complicated than coiffures in photos from 1909 pictured in Lenore Frost’s book on Dating Family Photos 1850 – 1920.  It is more similar to pictures dating from 1914.  However since Lenore’s book is about Australian photographs it could be that Berlin fashions were a little ahead of Australia. The Photo Detective website based on British photographs, illustrates the Side Swirl Hairstyle as being a popular fashion for young women from about 1909 to 1914 and what is termed the Transitional hairstyle from about 1911. (“Edwardian – index.” Photo Detective. Geoff Caulton, 22 June 2010. Web. 06 Feb. 2014. <http://www.photodetective.co.uk/Edwardian-index.html>. )

The clothes look as though they date from the Edwardian era. The high collar of the dress, a slim and high standing collar, is typical of the era. From 1905 apparently sleeves changed and the “fullness at the wrist disappeared, the width at the top increased and there was a return to the leg-of-mutton, full puffed and double-puffed sleeves of the 1890s.” We can’t see much detail of the skirt. (“Fashion In The Edwardian Era: Part I .” The Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion. Ladies Treasury, 19 Jan. 2013. Web. 07 Feb. 2014. <http://www.tudorlinks.com/treasury/articles/view1900.html>.)

The photograph appears to have been taken at Emil and Helene’s flat, not in a studio.

Emil was an interior designer and antique dealer in Berlin.  When they first married Emil and Helene lived in Steglitz. Later, but before World War 2, his shop was in Budapester Straße and he lived in a flat upstairs, with the work rooms on the floors above.  This area including the shop and flat was bombed during the War.

My mother recalls her maternal grandparents living in Budapester Straße opposite the Zoo. This is an undated, but pre-war, image retrieved from “Budapester Straße Mit Zoo.” ALT – BERLIN. Allside.de, 6 Nov. 2010. Web. 6 Feb. 2014. <http://www.allside.de/pages/Budapester%20Strasse%20mit%20Zoo.html>.

My mother tells me that there was a grand piano in the flat in Budapester Straße.  She was too young to remember it being played.  Her mother, my grandmother and Emil and Helene’s daughter Charlotte, learned the piano for fourteen years but did not play once she stopped learning. Charlotte’s husband, Hans, spoke in later years of the enormous effort required when they decided to relocate the piano from the second floor to the first floor of the building.

Reference: Frost, Lenore Dating family photos 1850-1920. Lenore Frost, Essendon, Vic, 1991.

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