Max Mayer

Family Stories by LoisJuly 21, 2012September 12, 2015

The diamond merchant and the musician

In a previous post I was on the trail of Emma Pither Dodd, trying to find not only her parents, but the father of her little boy, Alfred. I found an Emma Dodd working for a diamond merchant Max Meyer in 1891. I get fascinated by names (I came across a Carling Curling a little while ago) and I […]

Family Stories by LoisJuly 21, 2012September 10, 2018

Searching for Emma…

I get these bees in my bonnet. Horace Colgate, né Alfred Dodd, born in London… who was his father, who exactly was his mother? I knew her name was Emma Pither Dodd and that she married Thomas Colgate. Her birth place in the census was stated as Ascot in Berkshire but I just seemed to stumble blindly around the […]