German POW's in Lincolnshire

[Del 80]

Just wondered if there are any records of German prisoners of war in Lincolnshire.....looking for info. on one chap in particular.....Karl F Maisenberger married Audrey Ayto, in 1948 at Boston Lincolnshire...I know that a lot of these men never returned home to Germany, after WW2 although this bloke probably did, he and Audrey had a daughter born in Munich in 1953, before eventually moving to The USA at some point......

[cath151]

Familysearch have  a record for a Karl F and Audrey a Maisenberger, not much info but a start.
Cathy
https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.givenName=karl%20f&q.surname=maisenberger&count=20&offset=0&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on

[Del 80]

Thanks for that......yes that is them, I am pretty  sure that Karl Maisenberger was a POW, Audrey was from Spalding, Lincolnshire, her father Ernest was a policeman there......Audrey died in Florida in 2013....

[BillyF]

Nothing to do with your post, but, by a strange coincidence I was thinking this afternoon about another German POW that my father knew.

This would be about 1947/48 . He was called Fritz Nicol, maybe not his correct name, although I have some newpaper cuttings where my father and Fritz had been in (road)walking races togther. I had a liitle wooden pull along "sausage" dog which Fritz had made. He worked on a farm at Fotherby, I wonder what happened to "him".

[barryd]

Found one person of that name living in Florida.

https://flvoters.com/pages/m101227.html#:~:text=Maisenberger%2C%20Karl%20F.was%20born%2019%20January%201926%2C%20is,Florida%20voter%20list%20as%20of%2031%20July%202018.

Just scroll down. Fairly close to the top.

[barryd]

Also Audrey A. living in another apartment. Same building.

[barryd]

There are now three Maisenbergers in Florida (at least on this list)

This list is a Voters list which the authorities in Florida have labeled


"Public information, by definition, is not private ". A bit unusual but there it is.

[Del 80]

Thank you.....yes that's them, the daughter may or may not be still living.....Billy F, a lot of POW's never returned to their home country after the war, I worked with several of them in the 60's and 70's, they had married local girls and settled here, they were decent types but we had one bloke who hated them and wouldn't work with them.....

[BillyF]

I think the hard feelings against them lasted a long time for certain people. Through work I knew one who had come from East Germany, a very nice man who decided to stay in this country because he "didn`t want to live under the Russians", his word. His neiighbour didn`t like him at all, but he did a lot of work for the community.