Charles Emil Sleeper

 Well, that did not take long.  Charles Emil was born Karl Emil Schlieper.  As a naturalised British citizen he changed his name to Charles Emil Sleeper by deed poll in November of 1938 in the same Quarter as marrying Pamela Suren's mother Maudie Lessor.

Courtesy of FindMyPast and the London Gazette.

His marriage registration, and death notice, connect them all together.  The following identifies him as both Schlieper and Sleeper as well as his spouse as Lesser and Suren:

This identifies Pamela as person to be notified at his death:

Another line bites the dust.

Pamela Sleeper (Suren)

 Lovely, confusing Pamela.  Listed in the 1939 Register as Sleeper then annotated later to be Hart, then annotated again to be McAlpin-Michell.  Actually it was McAlpin-MITCHELL, but no bother.  She was not a Sleeper in any case.  Her mother Maudie LESSER Suren remarried Charles Emil Sleeper when Pamela was 12.

So two more struck off the 1939 Sleeper list.  However, I will be following Charles Emil back to see if he connects to the Schleiper/Sleeper lineage or leads us elsewhere..

Not Dudley's Ancestors

My quest to research all the Sleepers in the U.K., especially England, stems from a long standing brick wall in my personal genealogical research.  My family Sleeper line is confidently researched back to Dudley Sleeper b. about 1771/d. 15 Nov 1837 Hartford, Windsor, Vermont, USA.  

photo by RonH from FindAGrave

Whilst having a male of the line yDNA tested, and matching several other yDNA tested Sleeper males, none have definitively traced back to a documented lineage in England.  Well, not that they've shared... So I'm approaching it the other way round - from England/U.K. to the U.S.

I reiterate this because my first research selection, Ada Sleeper, from all the identified Sleepers in the 1939 Register led me confidently to the progenitor Sleeper for that line in England:  Christian Frederick HENRY Sleeper (formerly Schlieper) of the Kings German Legion, b. abt 1788, Germany/d. 27 Jan 1849, Little Smith Street, Chelsea.  While not definitive until I can find a living descendant to test, I think highly unlikely Henry Schlieper's line is the same as Dudley's.

I think it now time to select another Sleeper from the 1939 Register...