Marjorie Wise (1922 - 1974)

Marjorie Wise is my maternal 4th cousin 1x removed. Rosenberg family tree Here

Parents: Philip Wise (1889 - 1957) and Fanny Leah Jackson (1892 - 1968)

Born: 23 June 1922 in Manchester, England

Hebrew name: Malka, daughter of Feivel

Married:  Benjamin Backrack in Manchester, England in (October - December) 1946

Census details

1939 Register

Marjorie's parents, Fanny and Phillip, are living at 4 Wilmslow Rd, Manchester, England. Philip is a master tailor age 50, Fanny, age 47 and their children are Marjorie age 17 and Eileen age 13. Marjorie is a dress cutter (gowns)

Death

13 April 1974 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, at 51 years of age. Buried in the Blackley Jewish cemetery, Manchester, Lancashire, England

Tombstone for Marjorie Wise. In loving memory of Marjorie Backrack, who died 13th April 1974 aged 53 years. Deeply missed by her devoted husband, sister, brother-in-law, nephews, nieces, relatives and friends

Hebrew translation ""[abbreviation] Here is buried/ Malka daughter of Mr. Feivel/ passed away 21 Nisan 5734/ [abbreviation] May her soul be bound in the bond of life."

There is a discrepancy in dates. Both the civil registration birth index and the 1939 register give her date of birth as 1922 and dying age 51 whereas her tombstone suggests she was born a year or two earlier, dying age 53

Residence

In 1939 Marjorie and her family are living at 4 Wilmslow Rd, Manchester, England

Greenwood, Robert Martin (1922 - 1993) / Gruenebaum, Robert Martin (1922 - 1993)

Robert Martin Greenwood, born Martin Israel Gruenebaum is the husband of Sybil Rose, my maternal 4th cousin 1x removed. He changed his name to Greenwood when he was naturalised in London on 14 July 1947. Rosenberg family tree Here

Parents: Heinrich Gruenebaum (1843 - bef 1946)) and Regina Kupfer (1879 - bef 1946). Both his parents perished in the Holocaust

Born: 1922 in Gresfeld, Germany

 

Married: Sybil Rose in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales on 13 February 1951. Martin was 28 and Sybil 26 years old

Robert and Sybil on their wedding day (supplied by the family)

Robert and Sybil (supplied by the family)

Children

Their first child was born when Sybil was 28 and Martin 31. Their second child was born when Sybil was 31 and Martin 33

• Martin Henry Greenwood born in 1953 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales
• Nigel W Greenwood born in 1953 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

Biography

Robert Greenwood was born in Germany but forced to flee to escape persecution from the Nazis when he was seventeen-years-old. His parents and young sister were murdered in a death camp. As soon as he came of age he enlisted in the British army. Following the end of the Second World War - during which he had served in France, Belgium and Germany - he met his future wife Sybil Rose while working in London. In 1951 they moved to Cardiff so Greenwood could join the Rose family menswear retail clothing business. When Robert took over as managing director he remained true to Abraham Rose's original vision and the outfitters remained an independent business with a small but loyal customer base. His wife, Sybil, and mother-in-law, Florrie, were directors alongside him, A keen chess player, he was team captain of the North Cardiff chess club

Death

October 1993 in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales

Newspaper clippings

Family

Left - right; Martin and Jennifer Greenwood, Nigel Greenwood and his wife, Florrie Rose in front and behind her are Robert and Sybil Greenwood