Hello List I hope you can help a Lancastrian whose researches have strayed into foreign parts in more senses than one. I'm looking for any VOLKMAN connections. In 1941 one of my Gt Aunts married a Harold Pearson VOLKMAN b: 1910 in South Shields. His parents were John Henry VOLKMAN b: 1869 in South Shields (A Gas Meter Inspector) and Annie HALL His parents were also a John Henry VOLKMAN b:? and Jane Adey Martin b:1855 South Shields, they married 1864 at Holy Trinity, South Shields. He was a Mariner. On the marriage Cert his father is Edward VOLKMAN, a Sexton. Where might Edward have been Sexton and Where did the VOLKMANS originate. Any Ideas?a