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Alice Sarah GRIEVES  ‎(I9423)‎
Given Names: Alice Sarah
Surname: GRIEVES
Married Name: Alice Sarah HERRMANN

Gender: FemaleFemale
      

Birth: -- London, England


Personal Facts and Details
Birth London, England

MarriageSeparated
Hanns Otto HERRMANN - ‎[View Family ‎(F3269)‎‎]
Berlin, Germany


Source: Stella Skitch

Memories

Hide Details Note: ...my grandmother trained at the Guildhall School in London and was a pianist of concert standard. Back in the 1880's women were not encouraged to play professionally. Grandmother ‎(nee Greaves)‎ eloped with a German to Berlin where my mother and two brothers were born. Grandfather Herrmann was a considerable ladies man and finally grandmother couldn't stand it any longer and returned to London with my mother. The boys stayed in Germany. I believe grandfather went off the the Argentine with the younger boy. Grandfather got shot in a duel over a woman, and the son was thrown from a horse and broke his neck. At least that is the story we heard. The elder son went through the first world war in the Imperial German Navy. He took part in the 1918 mutiny and was wounded. He survived and married and had children. All I know about that is that in 1947 my mother got a letter from a girl in Germany who was about to marry a British soldier - I guess she must have been related to mothers brother. Back in 1947, and in fact for a number of years after the war, people in Britain were not terribly fond of the Germans. My mother wrote back to say that all things considered, my brother had been bombing the hell out of Germany - I have his flying logbooks recording all the cities he visited - and we ourslves had been bombed and machine gunned. She didn't think the time was ripe for Anglo-German friendships. ‎(Mother got a very terse and sarcastic letter in reply!)‎
Grandmother and my mother were back in London just prior to 1918 in time for the war - they were both classed as enemy aliens. Grandmother eventually was renaturalised.

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Immediate Family  (F3269)
Hanns Otto HERRMANN
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Magda Kachen Helena Katie HERMAN
1897 - 1959