YOU'RE confused?!!!
Her husband was a Dr Waters, so that is doubtless her BUT...
Irene the pianist is assumed to have been born at circa the date given, though there is much confusion. The BMD registers give 2 Irene Kohlers born in London around this period - one reg 1909 in West Ham, the other reg 1912 in Camberwell.
Indeed there WERE 2 Irene Kohler's in my family - my Nan's sister was also an Irene Kohler. As my Nan was bon in Camberwell, and as the pianist Irene's father married in West Ham, I guessed that the 1912 reg in Camberwell was my Nan's sister and the 1909 reg in West Ham was the pianist. This is borne out by the fact that Irene Kohler, reg 1912, Camberwell, had a mother with the maiden name COX - as did my Nan! So the 1912 lady had to be my Nan's sister, and there has to be a discrepancy over the pianists true date of birth.... doesn't there???
We in the family assumed that perhaps the pianist had shaved a couple of years off her age and used her cousin Irene's birthdate, hence the pianist always shows on Google to have been born circa 1912. I do hope I am making sense here!
I am aware of the Aussie institute, thank you. My cousin (herself a concert pianist) has contacted them and now possesses a listof the music they hold but the detail does not sem to be very personal.
I hadn't thought of Google Books though! Lots of reading to do now!
Thank you one and all.
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14-05-2008, 12:20 PM #11SpangleGuest
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14-05-2008, 12:37 PM #12SpangleGuest
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14-05-2008, 1:10 PM #13MutleyGuest
That's a pain...
Gale Virtual Reference Library are obviously moving the goal posts.
Let us hope someone can do a lookup for you.
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14-05-2008, 1:13 PM #14
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14-05-2008, 1:22 PM #15
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I seem to recall reading the Bedfordshire Libraries got into trouble for making the databases too freely available. Hardly surprising.
Haven't you tried your own library service? I found that biog through mine.
Times Digital Archive doesn't cover 1996. Infotrac Custom Newspapers does.
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14-05-2008, 2:58 PM #16
Have you see this?
https://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/pe...LinkID=mp52898Sue Mackay
Insanity is hereditary - you get it from your kids
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17-06-2008, 12:22 AM #17SpangleGuest
Sorry for the delay in saying this - I have had problems with my computer yet again!
A HUGE THANK YOU!!!!
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26-07-2023, 10:17 AM #18
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Irene Kohler - lived in Peckham?
I am going to produce a small book for my grandchildren, consisting of all my mother’s memories about her life (1912 – 2006)
In these notes she writes –
" … One of the girls in my class was a girl called Irene Kohler, who subsequently went to Australia, and I heard once that she was a famous concert pianist out there. “
My mother was born in the borough of Wandsworth, lived in Peckham, south-east London, and went to Cator Street School, Cator Street, Peckham.
She knew Irene Kohler.
Age-wise and place-wise, this ties in with Irene Kohler being born in 1912 in Wandsworth, and even indicates that she lived in the catchment area (Peckham) for Cator Street school
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26-07-2023, 11:35 AM #19
Welcome to the British Genealogy Forum, Geoff. I don' know whether you have realised, but you have joined a thread more than a decade old and most of the participants are no longer members (that's why they are tagged "guest"). However the newspaper references are still valid - try Find My Past or the British Newspaper Atchive.
There's more online than there was in 2008.
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27-07-2023, 3:51 PM #20
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Many thanks Lesley! :-)
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