Re: Swiss Grandfather

Don Aitken wrote:
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:12:48 +0100, "Retired" <retired@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

My grandfather was Johann Schutz, who apparently came to England around 1890 where he met, but apparently did not marry my grandmother. She is in the 1901 census as Mary Jane Schutz, with two children, but he is missing.
Would he have been allowed to come to England in those days without any immigration problem, or would he perhaps have deliberately hidden to avoid officialdom?

There was no immigration control of any kind at that time, and no
officials to hide from. He wouldn't have needed a passport, or any
form of identification, and nobody would have asked his nationality.
The past is another country.

There is no naturalisation record at the National Archives, and I wonder how a German speaker avoided getting interned in 1914 or 1939.

Only males of German or Austrian nationality and of military age were
liable to internment.

as a footnote

"The Klondike gold rush began in July of 1897 when two ships docked in San Francisco and Seattle carrying miners returning from the Yukon with bags of gold. ."

are there any survivng letters from Canada to support this hypothosis?

I had a WATKINS die in South Africa in Kimberley and a LAPHAM uncle I never met worked the Rio Tinto mine in the thirties dredging for "gold to pay for the next war" he wrote in one of his letters to my mother

Lapham, Alfred George (***)
b: 19 OCT 1912 in AML BB Reg Winterbourne Chipping Sodbury
C/o Bulolo Gold Dredging,
Bulolo, New Guinea
d: 1 JUL 1945 in Royal Australian Army (Prisoner of Japanese)

more in these notes
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hughw36&id=I0093

Watkins, John Evelyn b: 10 SEP 1853 in Llanvair Kilgeddin AHW BB J Evelyn d: 23 JUL 1882 in ? Hospital
Burial: Kimberley, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
- Remembered St Mary's Llanfair Kilgeddin Family Grave
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hughw36&id=I0378 do noit have so much about him

Hugh W



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