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Can be found in the 1901 census as an unmarried lodger with a Jones family at 58 Heywood Street, Moss Side, Chorlton - aged 29 and born in Germany. By 1904 he was married - his German wife's name was Mathilde - also around this time he had produced postcards as a hand-coloured postcard of Market Street, Manchester, probably early 1904, has the publisher details on the back: E. Ludwig Baur, Manchester, "Thilde Series" (undoubtedly named after his wife).
His pictorial postcards were restricted to North West England (+ the North Wales coast) including a significant number of Manx views. All seemed to have been printed in Germany though this was quite common at this period.
Slater's Manchester Directory for 1909 lists E. Ludwig Baur as a publisher, engraver and copperplate & lithographic printer of pictorial postcards, operating from 16 Tariff Street, in partnership with Setzer & Co., General Merchants, Agents and Farina Importers, and residing at 'Felsberg', Park Road, Hale, Cheshire. He was noted in a Manchester Courier article of 28 January 1909 which lists him amongst 300 of Manchester's German Colony celebrating the Kaiser's 50th birthday with a banquet at the Midland Hotel. The 1911 edition of Slater's directory again lists him as a publisher, engraver and copperplate & lithographic printer of pictorial postcards, but now operating from Royal Buildings, 2 Mosley Street, with Setzer, and at the same residence. The 1911 census has him as a General Merchant & Agent, living at 'Felsberg', Park Road, Hale, Cheshire, with his German wife of 7 years, Mathilde, aged 39, and a German-born domestic servant, Elise Fuelling, aged 25.
A notice in the London Gazette of 16 July 1912 states that the partnership between Edward Setzer and E. Ludwig Baur, carrying on business as Merchants and Agents, at 2 Mosley Street, Manchester, under the style of "SETZER & CO." and "E. LUDWIG BAUR", has been dissolved by mutual consent from 13 June 1912. All debts due to and owed by the late firm of E. Ludwig Baur will be settled by Baur, who will carry on the said business.
However August 1914 saw the outbreak of war and the registration of enemy aliens - the Manchester Courier of 9 October 1914 includes a report of Baur, of 2 Mosley Street, trying to recover a debt through the County Court. His lawyer argued that, although now an enemy alien, Baur had applied for naturalisation, and the summons was issued mid-July, before war was declared. However the Judge gave short shrift, struck out the case, and told him to 'take it off to Germany'!
He was interned towards the end of the year with UK central number 22966; his address was given as 5 Meadow Bank, Chorltonville, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester and birth place was recorded as Dittershausen, Kr. Ziegenhain, Pr. Hessen (ICRC List All.12/7). He was held at Douglas Camp, under number 3305 which probably corresponded to an arrival at the camp at the beginning of November 1914 , but was released on the afternoon of 4 December 1914, and returned to Chorlton. Following the sinking of the Lusitania, he was re-interned in May 1915 at Stobs (ICRC List All.37/61), and was repatriated to Germany from Stratford on 4 January 1916 (ICRC List All.69/13).
Mike Kelly(Mannin Collections) for allowing me to publish his research on Baur
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