KYSOW FAMILY HISTORY

 

Please note that we have re-organised our website and have placed details of our KYSOW family (or the KYSON family, where appropriate) in our GOLDSMITH family history, with which it connects.  Please follow the link here to find details of Hermann Julius KYSOW 1883 – 1969, from where further hyperlinks should direct you to other members of the family.  Alternatively, please follow this link here and select KYSOW from the table of names on that page.

 

We will not be maintaining this page after August 2007, so you may find it useful to bookmark the link above.

 

Generation 1

 

Carl

 

We know only from the marriage certificate of his son, Hermann Julius, that in 1882, he worked as a Commission Agent.  If you are able to confirm whether or not he emigrated from Prussia with Hermann Julius, we would be grateful to know: if you can help, please click on this link to mail us.

 

Generation 2

 

Hermann Julius KYSOW (c.1855 -?)

 

From the Latter Day Saints’ web site, it appears that he was born in 1855 at Kalbe Andersaale, Sachsen, Prussia.

 

At the time of the 1881 Census, he lived alone in lodgings at 34 Henry Street, London, and worked as a cabinet-maker.  His birthplace is given as Calbuander Saalu, Prussia.  We believe this to be the city of Calbe, situated on the river Saale in Saxonia-Anhalt, Germany.

 

He married at St Johns Church, Fitzroy Square, London, on 13 August 1882; Matilda SCHMELTZER.  He lived at 65 Charlotte Street, London and worked as a cabinet-maker.

 

In 1889, he lived at 39, Nasmyth Street, Hammersmith, Middlesex, and worked as a cabinet maker.

 

At the time of the 1891 Census, he lived at 31, Mardale Street, Hammersmith and he worked as a cabinet-maker and upholsterer.  His wife, Matilda, was a laundress.

 

At the time of the 1901 Census, he lived at 2a Campden Street, London and still worked as a cabinet-maker.  He lived there with Matilda, Hermann (aged 17, who also worked as a cabinet-maker), Charley (aged 15, a french polisher) and William (aged 12).

 

He is recorded as having died by the time of William’s marriage in April 1921.

 

Generation 3

 

Hermann Julius (1883 – 1969) also known as Herbert John

 

Hermann Julius was born at 30 Grafton Street, London, on 31 July 1883, the son of Hermann and Matilda.  We do not know when his forenames changed, but we understand that his original names perhaps sounded too Germanic and was changed during one or other of the two World Wars.

 

On the night that the Census was taken in 1891, he was a border at 1, Globe Cottages, Wood Street, Chelmsford, Essex with William BRYAN, a potter, and his wife, Mary Jane BRYAN.

 

He married Elizabeth Mary FLUDER on 1 September 1914 at Marylebone Register Office.  A copy of the entry in the marriage register shows that he was a master cabinet-maker, and that she was a tailor.  They lived at 5, Church Street, Marylebone.

 

Steve knows that by 1916, they lived at Shrotton Street, London, NW1.  This building stands on the corner of Lisson Grove, London, above a fish restaurant.

 

Steve recalls being told that he married secondly, Gertrude, and thirdly, Lillian, but has no knowledge when these events occurred.  He recalls, as a child, being taken to his workshop, in Marylebone Lane, in the latter half of the 1960s.  He also recalls being taken to birthday parties at his home at 25, Waldegrave Road, Ealing, W5.  In his latter years, he was blind.  He died, at home, on 8 July 1969.  S. G. Abelson, M.B. certified death due to bronchopneumonia following a carcinoma,  He was cremated at West Ruislip.

 

Charley Albert KYSOW (c.1886 -?)

 

On the night that the Census was taken in 1891, he was a border at 1, Globe Cottages, Wood Street, Chelmsford, Essex with William BRYAN, a potter, and his wife, Mary Jane BRYAN.  He had been born at Marylebone.

 

We have found a message in an Internet discussion group seeking details of births in the Kysow family from September 1882 onwards from someone in Queensland, Australia.  We are seeking to confirm if the person making the inquiry descends from Charley or from William: if you are able to confirm this, or give any other information, please mail us.

 

William KYSOW (1889 -1946) also known as William KYSON

 

He was born on 15 January 1889 at 39, Nasmyth Street, Hammersmith, Middlesex, the son of Hermann Julius and Matilda.

 

On the night that the Census was taken in 1891, he was a border at 1, Globe Cottages, Wood Street, Chelmsford, Essex with William BRYAN, a potter, and his wife, Mary Jane BRYAN.  He had been born at Hammersmith.

 

He married, on 4 April 1921 at the Register Office, Hackney, London; Margaret Florence FIELD, but a copy certificate shows that he used the surname KYSON.  He gave his occupation as an engineer’s fitter and his address as 58, East Street Buildings, Manchester Square, London.  He gave his age as 30 years.

 

He died on 13 January 1946 at Charing Cross hospital aged 58 years.  Death, due to Loban’s pneumonia, was certified by H N Stafford, the Coroner for the County of London after post mortem without inquest.  His wife, Margaret, informed the registrar.  He had worked as a stoker at Bruce House, Kemble Street, Westminster, London, WC2 and lived at 89, Calshot Street, London, N1.

 

Margaret Florence FIELD (c. 1899 -?)

 

At the time of her marriage to William, she lived at 10, Woodland Street, Dalston, London and was aged 22 years.  Her father, John William FIELD, was a railway signalman.  If you have any other information concerning Margaret Florence FIELD, especially before her marriage to William, please click on this link to mail us

 

Generation 4

 

Philomena Agnes (‘Phyllis’)  KYSOW (1909-95)

 

Born on 15 May 1909 at Hammersmith, London, daughter of Hermann

 Julius.

She was appointed to the position of Post Office telephonist, in London, on 24 January 1927 (source: The London Gazette, 4 February 1927).  She was appointed to the rank of second subaltern in the Auxiliary Territorial Service on 29 June 1941 (source: The London Gazette, 12 August 1941).

She worked for the Post Office and retired as an Executive Officer.  She died, on 23 October 1995 at Orpington hospital, Orpington, Kent as the result of a cerebrovascular accident, as certified by S Clark, MB.  She also had valvular heart disease.  Prior to her death, she lived at Farnborough Common, Kent and had been admitted to hospital having collapsed in the High Street, Orpington about a week before her death.

Charles KYSON (1923? – 1988?)

A son of William and Margaret: we have these details from the International Genealogical Index at www.familysearch.org.  If you have any further information that we could include here, please send us a message by clicking here.

Margaret KYSON (c. 1924 -?)

A daughter of William and Margaret: we have these details from the International Genealogical Index at www.familysearch.org.  If you have any further information that we could include here, please send us a message by clicking here.

Letitia KYSON (c. 1924 -?)

A daughter of William and Margaret: we have these details from the International Genealogical Index at www.familysearch.org.  If you have any further information that we could include here, please send us a message by clicking here.

Ronald KYSON (c. 1928)

A son of William and Margaret: we have these details from the International Genealogical Index at www.familysearch.org.  If you have any further information that we could include here, please send us a message by clicking here.

George KYSON (c. 1929)

A son of William and Margaret: we have these details from the International Genealogical Index at www.familysearch.org.  If you have any further information that we could include here, please send us a message by clicking here.

Reginald KYSON (c. 1932 –8)

A son of William and Margaret: we have these details from the International Genealogical Index at www.familysearch.org.  If you have any further information that we could include here, please send us a message by clicking here.

Unnamed male KYSON (c. 1934)

A son of William and Margaret: we have these details from the International Genealogical Index at www.familysearch.org, but as the child does not appear to be named, we suspect a stillbirth or a death at extremely early age.  If you have any further information that we could include here, please send us a message by clicking here.