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Record #26896
Name :
: Theodor Gotthilf FIEDLER (1869 - 1942)
  aka : Theo FIELDER (anglicised name)


Father
: Johann Christian Fiedler
Mother
: Caroline Fiedler, nee Weegmann
BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 30 Jan 1869

Marriage (1)
: 1894   Spouse/Notes : Anne Lowes, b. 1870 in Newcastle upon Tyne
Marriage (2)
:

Date of Death
: 1942
Immigration
: 1884
Naturalisation
:   Notes : Never naturalised
Abode (1) : Country of Origin / NotesGermany, Hohenlohe, Kuenzelsau
Abode (2)England, County Durham, Shadforth

Lived in Front Street,Shadforth, with his wife and children.
Worked as a pork and beef butcher at the Co-Operative Stores. ( 1911 Census.)
Abode (3)Germany, Hohenlohe, Kuenzelsau

Repatriated, after being interned on the Isle of Man, and stayed in Kuenzelsau until 1927.
Abode (4)England, County Durham, Gateshead

From 1927 until his death in 1942.
NotesTheo., who was my great-grandfather, emigrated from Germany when he was 15, to be apprenticed to another German butcher, Mr. Heine. He married Annie Lowes from Newcastle and they settled in Shadforth, County Durham, where Theo. worked as a butcher at the Co-Op. The couple had four children: Theo. Junior; Caroline; Frieda, 1901 - 2000, who was my grandmother, and Ernst Louis, known as Ernie. On the outbreak of war in 1914, Theo. was arrested and interned on the Isle of Man - he had steadfastly refused to take British citizenship, saying that he was proud to be German. He became ill and, thanks to his sisters, Caroline and Frieda, who worked for the German Red Cross, he was exchanged for a sick British prisoner. He spent the rest of the war staying with his sisters back in Kuenzelsau - but, after the war, he was refused re-entry into the U.K. The family pleaded wit the Home Office to allow him to come home, but they refused until 1927, when Theo. finally returned. By then, my grandmother was married with a two-year-old daughter ( my mother) and a baby son. He had to 'sign on' with the Police once a week during WW2; he died in 1942, after a fall from a 'bus. 
ContributorsCreated : 2016-09-02 14:49:58 / Carol Hunt

Additional Contributions from : limehouse79

Last Updated : 2016-09-02 14:54:21 / Carol Hunt

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26896 FIEDLER, Theodor GotthilfFIELDER 1869 D__,     , Hohenlohe, Kuenzelsau ENG,     , County Durham, Shadforth
D__,     , Hohenlohe, Kuenzelsau
ENG,     , County Durham, Gateshead 		Carol Hunt