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Joseph Bernhard Johannes Elsen 🧬
Born: 5/12/1927Died: 2/6/2007Your Relationship: Parent
Biography & Notes
DNA certified by 24 matches, MRCA for 1 match. Joseph was born in Neuarenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany. In 1933, at the age of six, his family moved to the newly constructed village of Hilkenbrook, where his parents Johann Gerhard & Anna Gertrud Elsen had purchased a plot and built a house on Hauptstraße 32. In 1938, Joseph was photographed with the rest of his class outside his school in Hilkenbrook, with teachers Mr Rudolph & Mr Veltrup.
Timeline Events
1927 - BirthNeuarenberg, Friesoythe, Lower Saxony, Germany
1944 - OtherGehlenberg, Lower Saxony, Germany
NSDAP membership
1945 - MilitaryMeppen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Joseph was conscripted into the Wehrmacht, specifically the Grenadier Ersatz und Ausbildungs Bataillon 65, based in Delmenhorst to the north of Meppen, near Bremen
1955 - MarriageThe Church of the Sacred Heart and St John the Evangelist, Paddock Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
Marriage of Joseph Elsen and Anne Cullen
1955 - MarriageThe Church of the Sacred Heart and St John the Evangelist, Paddock Road, Bushey, Hertfordshire, England
1963 - Residence5 Farraline Road, Watford, Hertfordshire, England
Phone Book entry
1986 - MarriageHarrow, Middlesex, England
Marriage between Joseph Elsen & Mollie Davidson nee Russell
2007 - DeathWatford, Hertfordshire, England
Immediate Family
Spouse⚯ Anne Teresa Cullen🧬
Evidence Vault
- 📄With grandaughter ClaireImage
- 📄From the Book of HilkenbrookProfile Photo
- 📄Birth CertificateImage
- 📄Military RecordImage
- 📄Marriage CertificateImage
- 📄NSDAP ZentralkarteiImage
- 📄England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007Image