Ludwig Reinhard and Else Voigt

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Ludwig Reinhard Voigt was born in Hamburg on 2 August 1847, the son of Johann Friedrich and Amalia Voigt. There is little information about him in the archives. He was in the wine trade in London, as L R Voigt & Co, in Upper Thames Street, not far from Julius Kayser & Co in Mark Lane. I just remember him sitting on an upright chair in the drawing room at Traben House, Paines Lane, Pinner. In 1877 he married Mathilde Elisabeth (Else) Hoffmann. He died on 24 September 1922. They were our grandparents.

Else was born in Berlin on 7 November 1857, the daughter of' "Vater" and Emma Hoffmann. She died in Cochem on the Moselle in 1928 while on holiday with Emma, having been living in York Lodge, Leighton Avenue, Pinner, about 10 minutes' walk from Traben House

Their children were:

Emma Katharina Amalia (1878-1944); she married Max Paul Ewald Seiflow (1863-1944) in London on 29 September 1898, and died in Hatch End 30 April 1944. They were of course our parents.

Friedrich Reinhard (known as Reiny) who was born on 29 February 1880, and died in about 1928 in London. He was unmarried. Reiny had artistic skills like his mother Else, his sister Emma, and his brother Frederick,; I have a pen-and-ink drawing of what could be a pipe-smoking Sudanese woman that he made as a Christmas present for his parents in 1901, and I also have a pencil sketch of a dug-out on the Western Front in the Great War, that was published in the "Illustrated London News". Artistic skills were inherited by my sisters Leila and Iris.

Hans Eberhard who was born in 1882. During the 1914-1918 War he repudiated his German origin and renamed himself Howard Latimer-Voight. In 1912 he married Sylvia who I believe was an actress, . Later in her life she contracted a serious physical disability. During the 1914-1918 War I understand that he worked in, or managed, a factory making aeroplane propellers; Max had one of them hanging on the wall in his Mark Lane office. Howard seems to have fallen on hard times after the War. For some time he was a school teacher in Sutton Valance; he and Sylvia also ran a guest house, "Sunny Comer", in Broadstairs, where Iris and I holidayed in 1931. Later he lived in Zeals in Wiltshire. He died in about 1950.

Frederick Augustus (F A Voigt, 1892-1957): his life is well documented - see the Biography section.

Margarethe Elisabeth (Else) was nicknamed "Mulla" when she was very young, a name she retained for the rest of her life. She was born on 2 July 1894. In 1923 she married Julius Kayser . She was 29, he was 54, but in spite of the difference in ages it was, I have been told, a love match - he proposed to her on a flight returning from England to Germany. After his death she married Ritttmeister (cavalry Captain) Wolfgang Behncke (1891-1957) in about 1933. She had no children with either of her husbands. She died in Travemiinde on 19 March 1964.

LUDWIG REINHARD AND ELSE VOIGT