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Hi Alan I know this is an old post now, but are you still looking for information on John Shelley Fisher and Eliza Baker? If so, please get in touch. They are my 3 x great grandparents. BW Alex

Hello Chris I hope the following information might help you. Mary Mead was the daughter of George Alexander Adolphus Mead, who was German, and Eliza Mead (nee Fisher). Mary was born in 1887. She married Alfred Hubbard in, I believe, 1921 (I have yet to find the record of their marriage), and...

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All I just wanted to tell everyone how impressed I was with the service I have recently received from West Midlands Police Museum. I posted on a BHF thread that I was looking for information on my German great great grandfather, George Mead (Alexander Mede). Steve Rice from the Museum picked up...

My great great grandparents, George (born 1843) and Eliza (born 1851) Mead, lived at 40 Tillingham Street in 1914. George (real name Alexander Mede) was German and, consequently, Eliza was German by marriage. They both had to register as Enemy Aliens at the start of the First World War in...

Hi Steve Many thanks for your reply and how interesting you are volunteering for the West Midlands Police museum. I grew up in Showell Green Lane! I had been intending to contact someone there to find out whether the Museum holds any records of WW1 Enemy Aliens - maybe even counterparts of ID...

George Mead was from Gottingen, Germany, born 1843. His real name was Alexander Mede. In 1863 he joined the SS Hansa, a German emigrant ship, as crew and sailed to New York. There he jumped ship on 24 September 1863, the day the Russian Imperial Fleet sailed into New York Harbour. Nothing is...