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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    I am doing some research into Katharine Woolley, Carl’s daughter, who was married to Leonard, the excavator of Ur in Iraq. Thank you very much for all this extra information!
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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    How can I find out how much the Company was worth, although it might have been liquidated in 1917? How do you access Kelly’s Archives to find more about the company? I see two silver plated teaspoons being sold on eBay by Hills, Menke & co with snake and wording African silver! Apparently the...
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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    Where can I read this? Do you know if it sold? ?? Very interesting!
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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    I don’t think she ever owned a house. She left Birmingham to go to Oxford, then became a VAD nurse in Europe and ended up marrying an archaeologist who relied on grants for his research, as they did in those days. I think her parents left Birmingham just after the war and went to America???
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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    ‘General merchant’ - as described by KW in Marriage certificate in 1919 to Bertram Keeling under profession of father. Where were his other stores in the world? KW died in 1945 leaving £44,000 (over £1 million today) - could this have come from her father? Was he very wealthy? His house in...
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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    I thought Carl was arrested in Broken Hill in December 1915 and sent back to England to be interned. A Carl Menke died in Iowa in 1923 and Marie died 5 miles away in Iowa in 1957 I am very interested in Frederick William Menke and his career
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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    Has anyone a photograph of The Firs, Richmond Hill Road, Edgbaston where the Menkes lived or of their General Store?
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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    Thanks - I have seen most things readily available but was hoping for some local knowledge!
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    Katharine Menke later Lady Woolley

    Can you give me any information about her, her father Carl Theodor Menke, her mother Marie or her brother. They lived sometime at The Firs in Edgbaston Thank you!
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