Looking for Rosa

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Craig Reuter

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Hello everyone. Instructions said to keep it brief in the intro. So here's what I already know about Rosa. Born 1873 in Camden All Town Saints to Offord John Hannington (1842-1889) and Catherine Loaring (1856-?), baptized September 21, 1873 in Camden All Town Saints. Lived in St. Pancras with parents and siblings Offord John William, William, Blanche and Maud.
Her brother William was partner in Hannington and Rutherford, Ltd. Architectural Books at 9 Bloomsberry Street, W.C. 1.
Married Gustav (no "e") June 15, 1891 in Poplar All Hallows Parish. See attached picture. Three sons were known to be born in St. Pancras. They are Carl (1892), Ernest Offord (1895), Ivor Joseph (my grandfather, in 1897). Today the grandson of Ralph (1898) says he was born in Bremen. The youngest is Albert Gustav (1901). So perhaps Gustav moved his troupe to Bremen in 1897/1898.
I've e-mailed with a Loaring family member who spotted the Rosa Jane death in 1897 in Hampshire, but it seems unlikely it's our Rosa.
The story about Rosa that has been handed down is that Gustav, a merchant marine, returned from a lengthy voyage to find Rosa pregnant with a child that he thought couldn't be his, so he divorced her. However, from what I've learned about Gustav, he was himself no saint in this regard. Anyway, it saddens me that her whereabouts, news of any such child, and death are unknown.
Does anyone know of good sources of information in Germany? Ich spreche Deutsch so it's no problem if sources are in German.
Thank you all!
 

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The Gustav Reuter family in Chicago has long given me false hopes in my internet research. There seems to be a tie to Reuters in Wisconsin, which is only about 2 hours drive north of Chicago. Some day I will try to research and contact living descendents of the Chicago Reuters, but I am fairly certain that there is no relation. Then again, I just learned from some Detroit relatives that Gustav may have fathered a son by his own son's common law wife while living in Detroit. He would have been about 60 at the time, so the man could have been fooling around in Wisconsin and Chicago for all we know. I have my doubts, at least about the Wisconsin and Chicago connection. :-)
 
Another bit of info that may help with the search for Rosa. Gustav sailed from Hamburg on Feb 6, 1902 to Hong Kong. Place of residence as given on the ship's manifest was Geestemünde which is near Bremerhaven. He lists his marital status as single. His youngest son Albert was born exactly one year earlier.
 
It might be worth your while having a look at the Germany section of Cyndi's List cyndislist.com/germany/ (put www in front) - lots of links to various avenues of research. There is also the Anglo German Family History Society
agfhs.org.uk/ (put www in front), but I think they may be more concerned with Germans living in the UK.

Ann
 
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