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Europe / German Pork Butcher - STEIN: Place of birth discovered, what next?
« on: Wednesday 10 April 13 14:50 BST (UK)  »
In the past I have written here about my ongoing search for my German great-grandparents’ roots. I already knew their full names, exact dates of birth and their fathers’ names. ‘Histres’ was a great help finding out some more info about my ggrandmother.  Now, having read an article in the latest magazine of the AGFHS,  I have obtained a copy of their entry in the parish register of St George’s Lutheran Church which gives me the vital information of their places of birth in the Hohenloe region, just as Histres said.  I have gathered from what I’ve read here in the past that I can’t progress without this piece of the jigsaw so I’m really glad to have found it out.  My question is (and I’m sure it’s been answered here before but I can’t find it): what should I do next?  Should I write to a German archive and if so, how and where, given that I don’t speak any German?  Do I need to visit any archives in person? This is not impossible – I’m going to Germany on holiday this summer.  By the way, I have been on all the websites mentioned on threads here but, interesting though they are, I have never found anything out relevant to my family.  Any ideas? Thanks, Hilg

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Europe / Germany: Another German Pork Butcher - STEIN
« on: Thursday 03 December 09 17:56 GMT (UK)  »
I am trying to find out more about my German ancestors.  My gg grandfather - Leonhard Johann Stein (b.1844)- came to London from Germany in the 1860's.  He married Margaretha Sophia Katharina Wittmann(b.1847) at the German Lutheran Church in Alie St. Whitechapel on 19.12.1869.  They anglicised their name to Stone during WW1 when they experienced intimidation etc. He was a pork butcher and they lived and worked in Whitechapel.  From their marriage cert I know that his father was a farmer called Johann Georg Stein and her father was a stone mason called Georg Michael Wittmann. Unfortunately I have no idea where they came from in Germany. my late father thought his father mentioned Stuttgart. I have read the book by Sue Gibbons and trawled through various websites but it seems that if I don't know whereabouts they came from I am stuck.  One other thing - a marriage witness was Christian Wittman whom I have assumed was Catherine's brother. I have found him as a baker married to an Englishwoman in the 1881 census. Any suggestions at all would be welcomed.   I have read quite a few similar posts on this topic and tried to find passenger lists etc to no avail.

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