Augustus Robertson Raff?? = August Raffel

[MrBarnett]

As David Barrat mentions, Rieffel’s son William was convicted of forging his father’s cheques, and a result he was sent to a reformatory. That was in 1913, when William was just 15 years old.

In 1935, William formally renounced the name Rieffel and adopted the surname Ruffle.

However, when August(us) died in 1941 William Ruffle was appointed his executor.

[Scott Nelson]

There's an Augustus Rieffel, born Germany, the king of sausage skins, living in Alverstoke, Gosport, in 1901. The age is a wee bit off, but he could have fudged the date for his young wife. He died in the 1940s, when his name is listed as August Lenard Rieffel, so that could be a problem. May or may not be the same bloke, but perhaps the butcher retired to the coast.

That's all I have.

And it looks like him being from Germany is total B.S.