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I would be grateful for any help tracing the descendents of Leonard LT Rhodes and Annie Elizabeth Campbell, married in Edmonton, London in 1941. I know Leonard had a brother, Louis John, born in 1916 and died in Brighton in 1996.

Leonard L T Rhodes
Year of Registration: 1914
Quarter of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar
Mother's Maiden Name: Vizard
District: Hackney
County: Greater London, London, Middlesex
Volume: 1b
Page: 905

Can't find any definite births for them. Do you have the marriage cert with the parents names etc.

Did they definitely have children

Leonard Rhodes
Arrival Date: 30 Apr 1947
Birth Year: abt 1914
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: English
Port of Departure: London Airport, England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Airline: British Overseas Airways Corporation

Annie Elizabeth Rhodes
Arrival Date: 30 Apr 1947
Birth Year: abt 1916
Birth Location: Ireland
Birth Location Other: county dohegal
Age: 31
Gender: Female
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: Irish
Port of Departure: London, England
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Airline: British Overseas Airways Corporation


Probably her birth registration

Annie Elizabeth Campbell
Registration District: Inishowen >>>>>County Donegal
Event Type: BIRTHS
Registration Quarter and Year: Apr - Jun 1915
Estimated Birth Year:
Age (at Death):
Mother's Maiden Name:
Film Number: 101076
Volume Number: 2
Page Number: 102
Digital Folder Number: 4194695
Image Number: 00085

Their final destination address was 143 Caledonian Road Toronto Canada. Her nearest relative was Mrs Lechforth 8 Manor Road Sidcup Kent. (Sister)

Border Crossings from Canada to the US

Leonard Leopold Thomas Rhodes
Arrival Date: 22 Jan 1950
Port of Arrival: Buffalo, New York, United States
>>Accompanied by: Wife Annie; Son Migel; Mother Helen
Age: 35
Birth Date: 28 Jan 1914
Birth Place: London
Birth Country: England
Gender: Male
Race/Nationality: English
Record has photo?: No
Record Type: Cards


Address Given 3015 Queen Street Toronto

Same record for Annie. Looks like the sons name may be Nigel

Annie Elizabeth Rhodes
Arrival Date: 22 Jan 1950
Port of Arrival: Buffalo, New York, United States
>>Accompanied by: Husband Leonard; Son Nigel; Mother-in-law Helen
Birth Date: 22 May
Birth Place: Co Donegel Eire
Birth Country: Eire
Gender: Female
Race/Nationality: Irish
Record has photo?: No
Record Type: Cards

And his mother

Helen Mary Rhodes
[Helen Mary Vizard]
Arrival Date: 22 Jan 1950
Port of Arrival: Buffalo, New York, United States
Accompanied by: Son Leomard; Daughter-in-law Annie
Age: 53
Birth Date: 19 Dec 1896
Birth Place: Wisbech, England
Birth Country: England
Gender: Female
Race/Nationality: English
Record has photo?: No
Record Type: Cards

And full details of the child with them

Nigel Cedric Anthony Rhodes
Arrival Date: 22 Jan 1950
Port of Arrival: Buffalo, New York, United States
Accompanied by: Father Leonard; Mother Annie; Grandmother, Grandma Helen
Age: 0
Birth Date: 26 Sep 1949
Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario
Gender: Male
Race/Nationality: English
Record has photo?: No
Record Type: Cards

May have ended up in California.

Leonard L T Rhodes
Address: 4250-4Th Av
City: San Diego
State: California
Zip Code: 92103
Phone Number: 619-298-5508
Residence Years: 1997


Nigel Rhodes
City: Torrance
State: California
Zip Code: 90505
Phone Number: 310-326-9172
Residence Years: 1994 1995

This is a wealth of information Astra. Many thanks for your efforts. I will try to contact the Rhodes in California and see if they are willing and able to confirm the link. If you find any other information on the Rhodes family I would be very grateful to know more. The other line I am trying to trace is the Dittmers, who emigrated to England from Hanover, Germany, around the 1840's. Perhaps Shipping Records could throw up a name there. Claus Heinrich Dittmer, who married Miriam Laycock in 1852, was the earliest I could find. In the 1851 Census his father is given as George Dittmer (could have been Jorg or Juergen?), a farmer from Hanover.

Claus Hh Dittmer
Port of Arrival: London, England
Arrival Date: 2 Mar 1846
Country of Origin/Native of: Hannover, Germany

Yes this is the first Dittmer to land in England. The ship entry also states Class HO2, certificate number 140. Is there any document I can get which gives more details? (e.g. age, address in hanover, civil status).