For the past week or so, I have been zooming and tweeting with an international bunch of genealogists, including several from England. 

This morning I tweeted a question to the UK experts about the London marriage mystery. I'm still trying to connect the double marriage of the Twiasschor siblings in 1911 to an an earlier marriage of an Augusta Twiasschor in the Manchester area. 

I asked for suggestions and right away @HistoryLady2013 responded with a question. Had I ordered the marriage certificates from the GRO?

I am trying to sort out the various Twiasschor lines and locations. 

First, the correct spelling is with the German eszett, or double-ess, character. Thus, the real spelling is Twiasßchor. Many times, even in Germany, the eszett is not used, and thus the name is sometimes rendered Twiasschor (with two esses) and sometimes Twiaschor (with one ess).

Here we have one more Ringel family member who was laid to rest at the Jüdische Friedhof in Weißensee. 

We first learned of Hirsch only recently. He was another sibling from the Ringel family from Rzeszow, Austria, who resettled in Berlin in the 1880s. He married Perl Jacobi and they produced eight children. 

So far, I've discovered no information about his religious career.

The inscription reads: Here rests my beloved husband / our kind-hearted father / grandfather and uncle / HIRSCH RINGEL

On July 22, 1939, Stan was in the bathroom shaving—having just received his first razor and shaving kit for his 15th birthday three days before. He was in a good mood, because he was still expecting a wonderful gift that he had been promised but hadn’t yet arrived.

Suddenly, in 1937, things turned dramatically downhill for Walter Ruby. According to Stanley, Sidney Kessler squeezed him out of American Spirits.

Then said Stan, “For 5-6 months, he sat home, not sure what to do with himself. He thought about selling soda to drug stores and down in the basement, deciding to make a perfume. Then he invented a pen that included a corkscrew and blade. He found a manufacturer to sell it. I believe it was the Schenley Liquor Company. I saw a check for $50,000 he received for that.”

According to all accounts, Rose was a dynamo who did everything around the house. She was an excellent cook, Stan remembers her matzoh brei, Sandy her brisket with ginger snaps in the sauce. 

She did all the cleaning and sewing. She made all the dresses for the girls and kept a pickle barrel in the back of the house.

She was active until the end of her life in 1947.

For reasons that remain unclear, at the age of 15 or 16, Rose was set up with a boy from a nearby country town named Abraham “Abe” Bloch (1870-1941). The match was a bit surprising because Abe, who at that time was making his living as a roofer, was from a lower social class and not as well educated as Rose.

These photos must have been sent to Helga in late 1945 by one of her cousins in London. They are helpfully dated on the back. 

Gina is shown together with her husband Ernest Scott in November 1945. He was a Jew born as Ernst Schoenwald in Vienna, and had anglicized his name after having fled to England.

Edith was not yet married in October 1945, when her picture was taken. She married Rudolf Krausz six months later.