Ursela H J Reypa 
Birth Notes
Ursula Mather.
Born 06/11/1924 Germany wife of Joe Mather
Family (mother) was from Bavaria, so probably born there.
Death Notes
Died 22/02/1988 in Bavaria from heart attack +Diabetic, 64yrs old.
Steve Hall confirmed Ursula died in Starnberg in Bavaria.
General Notes
Name: Reypa, Ursela H I (but also recorded as Sieper in the Cheshire and Lancashire BMD indexes). Confirmed as Reypa by family.
Sue recalls that when they were first married, Ursula wasn't familiar with Manchester ways and the weather and did as she had done in her native Germany. In the morning when making the bed, she would hang the quilt out of the window of each bedroom for airing. Something not done in Manchester and the neighbours were so distressed that they thought she had gone mad and phoned Joe to come home from work straight away! Also, that Ursula never settled in England.
She always said she was just a tenant in England and was not intending to stay. She was a very tough Bavaria Lady, nice don't get me wrong. Ursula did not have an easy time living in England after the War. Sue can remember once her arriving at their house upset that she had gone to fill their car with petrol and when paying the guy at the petrol station relishing she was German abused her as his son had been killed in the War. I was upset for both sides, you can see his point of view but then it was not Ursula's fault see was German, not Nazi I am sure.
Ursula lived in Bavaria and was in the Munich phone books of 1977,78,79.
Ursela and Joe were married in a religious ceremony on July 3rd, 1948 at Slade Lane Baptist.2
Marriage/Union Notes
Joe and Ursula Mather married 03/07/1948 at Slade Lane Baptist Church, Longsight, Manchester
Joseph Mather married (Siepen or Reypa), Manchester, 10e, 1235
MATHER * Joseph REYPA Ursela H I Rusholme, Longsight Baptist Chapel, Slade Lane Manchester 285/4/5
MATHER * Joseph SIEPEN Ursela H I Rusholme, Longsight Baptist Chapel, Slade Lane Manchester 285/4/5
Family Notes
Joe married Ursula after the War and his parents were not happy and the family fell out with young Joe Mercer's family and his German wife.
Must have put a strain on the family, Joe bringing a German girl home so soon after the War.
Especially as (some) of the family were lost during WW2.
Joe and Ursula lived in Stockport, Manchester in a very big house, 3 storeys, as Ursula ran a private Nursing Home in it, looking after 3 or 4 elderly Ladies and Iris, Monica and Brian's bedrooms were on the 3rd floor and the attic. It was like a Hotel being so full of rich elderly ladies. Then the old ladies died, they moved out of this house, and Sue got one of the old dressing tables for her marriage to Steve.
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