Henry HOCHLEITNER 1885 (General)

by rookancestrybest , United Kingdom, Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 23:14 (5216 days ago) @ slowhands

I was thinking on the same lines, whether they had a bad time with such a name during the First and or Second World Wars. However the fact the brother's wife seems to have kept the German sounding surname makes it hopeful...I have found where others in my family history have suddenly disappeared it has been that they have either re-married; or gone abroad. I've presumed many a person had died only to find them popping up in some country far away and marrying someone there! Judging by him working in the hotel and catering industry there was scope for them to move anywhere. I will keep looking too and if I find an answer will post it here.
(One young woman in my family history I had presumed to die in childhood but after three or four years I found records, in the last two weeks (!), of her marrying someone in Bombay and living there at the same time as her sister who was married to a vicar working there! Though sadly I found she did die young, but in Madras three or four years after she married!
You solved the mystery also of Sympherosa Rook whom I thought had died but who instead was married three times, lived to a good age, and, understandably, appears to have shortened her name to Rosa! So the picture might unfold at some stage in the future. I have found though that with rare names it can sometimes make it very easy to track people down but in other cases harder. (My great grandmother on another side of the family had a rare surname which meant that people e.g. priests and census gatherers changed it to what they thought it was rather than keeping to it which made tracing her brother who emigrated to the USA very difficult and finding the exact place where they were born to be a nightmare!)
Thanks again Slowhands, you ought really to be called Swifthands though because of the speed of your responses!