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I have been studying the earlier life up to 1945 of Werner Porzig, born Meerane, Germany in 1919.
I believe he died in BC in 2010 leaving a large family.

I would love to find out more about his life after his MI5 (British Secret Service) operation in June 1945. He seems to have had an extremely eventful young life.

We might be very vaguely related. My Porzig great grandfather and his siblings were born in a village Haselbach, not too far away. While the siblings continued living in the region, my grand father left Germany in very late 1870s.

I would be grateful if any of his family would like to contact me and tell me about the rest of his life  My interest is purely to complete a family story about a most interesting man.
Anton

   Many years ago I tried to find out to which sub-clan my Stewart ancestors belonged. I approached the Stewarts of Balquhidder website but they felt my Stewart family group did not belong within their clan grouping.
I am hoping that with the advance of digitised information, plus a much greater interest in family trees/history some one on Rootschat might have family from the information given below on their own tree:                                   

Our information is as follows:
Generation 1.*   
* Information collated from birth, marriage and death certificates and census reports.

Robert Stewart.
So far no date of birth can be found but it is thought, based on his marriage in 1722 to Margaret ‘Cowpar’ (also spelt Coupar) to be around 1690 to 1700. He was recorded on his son’s, John, birth certificate in 1727 as a maltman. His other children were Cristiaine (his wife’s mother’s name – born 22.10.1723), Mathew (3.4.1725), Margaret (1729), Janet (1731). Formal birth and death notifications only had to be advised from about 1855 onwards. Until then these notices were optional and when made were recorded in church records. Many such records have been lost so it is difficult to trace a working man’s history back beyond the mid 1700s. In fact to have gone as far back as 1690/1700 is considered good going.

Generation 2

John Stewart was shown to be a soldier on his son’s birth certificate in 1761 and then a merchant on another birth certificate dated 1763 and also on his son’s 1765 birth certificate. At the time of the 1745 rebellion against the English in favour of the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie, he would have been 18 and quite likely to have been able to take part in the various Jacobite uprisings or been in the English forces. After the collapse of the uprising he could have been co-opted into English forces which he was serving in up to around 1863. No trace of the marriage of John to Janet McIntosh could be found in the 1977 search of records.

Generation 3.
William Stewart is shown in the birth certificate of his son as a Brewer of Perth. His marriage certificate showed him as a maltman and his wife, Marion (also shown in some records as Mary) Taylor, was the daughter of a Perth fisherman. They married on 8.7.1794. They moved to Auchterader between 1795 (the date their first son was born in Perth and who possibly died in infancy) and the date of birth of their first daughter, Janet, born in 1796 in Auchterader. The first Scottish census of 1841 has no record of either of them. They would both have been 69 or over by that time. Their dates of death according to the ADLHA record of the Register of Mortality 1847-1878, Book 4 for the Parish of Auchterader shows that William died on 17.12.1850 and Marion on 28.3.1854.

My mother (a Stewart) once said in passing that her Stewarts were not Jacobites. Unfortunately at that time I had no interest in family history so did not take it further. However as I know family stories can often be fantasies.

I would be pleased if we could find them a 'clan home'.
Anton
                                               

With help from others on this site, I have been following up on a group of anti-nazi German pows.
I have learnt that Secret Intelligence Service/MI6 took 10 German pows that had been used on operations into Germany behind the lines, to infiltrate holding camps of German troops in Schleswig-Holstein, to try and find any middle ranking nazis hiding in their midst.
Being SIS it seems no records of this operation are publicly available.
I was wondering if anyone on this site had come across passing mention or some details of this operation, possibly while they were studying other military subjects?

I have been tracing the movements of a German naval rating who as a POW worked for the Special Operations Executive. In July 1945 he and a few other Bonzos (German POWs who worked for the SOE) were flown to Lunenburg. He was in ME 42 operating under the auspices of C1 21 Army group.
Can anyone tell me what ME 43 and C 1 might be?

The work that they might have been doing was being put into German POW camps, masquerading as German POWs, to suss out hiding middle rank nazis or for interrogations purposes of POWs. Before the war he had spent a short time with family in Hamburg so this might have been a natural place to send him. Alternately his young life was spent in the state of Thuringia near the town of Crimmichau and also near some of the terrible concentration camps..