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I love the ramdom little stories you find out along the way!!! Id love to spend my days trawling through newspaper archives.... im desperate to find some information  about why one of my ancestors emmigrated from denmark to England and how and when he arrived. Ohhhh i wish time travel would hurry up.

I'm starting to think maybe he was a seaman.... A long story short but ferdinand had four children one of which is my husbands great grandfather... He was told that his mother and father had sailed away on his father's ship back to Denmark (really they had both died) my husbands grandmother had believed this story all of her life (she's 88 now) until I started researching and found out they had died and her father had been sent to a boys home. It's a sad story but there are lots of holes in it... I've been researching the Buch family for the past six years but seem to have hit a brick wall with it.

I've been searching the immigration archives looking for him. He first show up in kings lynn on 1881 census as a ship brokers clerk. He then moves to Broughty Ferry and works as a clerk and ship broker then his daughter is born in Newcastle upon Tyne and his son is born in hulk in 1901.... His wife dies in Birkenhead in 1907... its all a mystery really. Why he came here  and why they moved around so much... I'm guessing it's all work reasons. He died in Hull asylum in 1911 from syphilis. It's a bit of a family scandal as they were all told he went back to Denmark. 

Thank you so much Ian that's so kind of you. X I shall have a look at these and get back to you x