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Rothenbergstrasse 12 is a listed building, now used by the Free University of Berlin, but occupied by US adminstrators immediately after the end of WW2 Letter sent by Mrs Else Kershaw [aka, according to bmd records Else S Kareski and Else S Mandel, married 1940, Birmingham] from Kershaw's Korner in Pershore Street, Birmingham. Sam Kershaw was formerly Samuel F Kershner who had a previous marriage in Manchester in 1928 to Deborah Gensz/Genz Blockley, b 1906, later Cook. *** Sam died 29 July 1956 in Birmingham Accident Hospital, apparently following a car crash <a href="http://www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=8949.0" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.birminghamforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=8949.0</a> address 22 Acheson Road, Hall Green Birmingham, probate to Morris Kershaw Hotel Proprietor, of whom there is no trace. There is no subsequent record of Mrs Kershaw, or indeed their son Irving E Kershaw b 1944

Picture of demolished Kershaw's Korner <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YFyIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT181&lpg=PT181&dq=" rel="noreferrer nofollow">books.google.co.uk/books?id=YFyIAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT181&amp...</a>

back - <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sludgeulper/37776656802/in/photostream/">www.flickr.com/photos/sludgeulper/37776656802/in/photostr...</a> The receiving mark is of Berlin NW7 which was in the russian zone, which dealt with international mail.

Samuel Francoise Kershner had been in business with Leonard Clarke at 158 Chapel Street, Salford, but in 1929 the partnership was dissolved and Mr Kershner continued the business, City Cycle and Motor Stores, alone <a href="https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33495/page/3266/data.pdf" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33495/page/3266/data.pdf</a>

where, inter alia, he sold the Silco cycle cape <a href="https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im19310508Cy-City.jpg" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.gracesguide.co.uk/File:Im19310508Cy-City.jpg</a>


Marriage: 14 Apr 1915 St Peter, Ashton under Lyne, Lancs. Harry Turner - 39, Fruiterer, Bachelor, 108 Brook Street Deborah Gensz - 40, Widow, 108 Brook Street 

   Groom's Father: Frederick William Turner, Fruiterer
   Bride's Father: John Blockley, Tinplate Worker
   Witness: George Harry Rogerson; Hannah Rogerson
   Married by Banns by: H. G. Prescott, Curate
   Register: Marriages 1915 - 1917, Page 10, Entry 19
   Source: LDS Family Search

<a href="http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Ashton-under-Lyne/stpeter/marriages_1915-1917.html" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.lan-opc.org.uk/Ashton-under-Lyne/stpeter/marriages_19...</a>

1911 census William Richard Gensz, b Germany
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