Do you know this person? Her search looks similar to yours. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.temke/8.9 Good luck! Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Friskney" <g.friskney@ntlworld.com> To: <GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:50 AM Subject: [G-P-L] Ancestor named Temke > Hi, > > I've added the name I'm searching for to your list, but don't know if it > will do any good. My family have been searching for any trace my great > grandfather. As it is with many other family, I suppose, a lot of what we > know has come down the family and been embelished and change in the > retelling. What we think we know is that he was called Carl Albert George > Temke. He turned up in the North East of England in the 1890s. He married > my great grandmother in 1898 and went on to have a large family, most of > whom were given Germanic names. He was interned during WW1 (of which there > is no record). He turns up on the census in 1901 as Temp (my great > grandmother was illiterate), place of birth Germany. We have found his > marriage certificate that states he was a widow. What family legand says > is that he was born in Heligoland in 1852. He left there to escape the > Kaiser (legand has is that he caused much trouble and was against the > Kaiser), became a seaman of some sort on a ship which w! > as shipwrecked of the coast of Hartlepool. He and his crew were in the > fever hospital which is where he met my grandmother. As I say, how much is > true I don't know. We have seacrhed records via the internet etc for > years, but it doesn't seem to have been a common name. Apparently he also > spoke fluent Yiddish! I think I'm getting a bit deperante, but when I saw > the words Germany Passenger Lists, I thought it might be worth a go. > > I'm sure that you'll probably tell me you can't help, but that's fine I'm > used to it. Thank you for reading my ramblings anyway! > > Cheers, > > Gail Friskney > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks very much, but she is related to us. We discovered her during our search, sadly she doesn't know any more than us! ----- Original Message ----- From: <sandra_joy@sbcglobal.net> To: <germany-passenger-lists@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 5:15 PM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Ancestor named Temke > Do you know this person? Her search looks similar to yours. > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/surnames.temke/8.9 > Good luck! > Sandra > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gail Friskney" <g.friskney@ntlworld.com> > To: <GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 7:50 AM > Subject: [G-P-L] Ancestor named Temke > > >> Hi, >> >> I've added the name I'm searching for to your list, but don't know if it >> will do any good. My family have been searching for any trace my great >> grandfather. As it is with many other family, I suppose, a lot of what we >> know has come down the family and been embelished and change in the >> retelling. What we think we know is that he was called Carl Albert George >> Temke. He turned up in the North East of England in the 1890s. He married >> my great grandmother in 1898 and went on to have a large family, most of >> whom were given Germanic names. He was interned during WW1 (of which >> there >> is no record). He turns up on the census in 1901 as Temp (my great >> grandmother was illiterate), place of birth Germany. We have found his >> marriage certificate that states he was a widow. What family legand says >> is that he was born in Heligoland in 1852. He left there to escape the >> Kaiser (legand has is that he caused much trouble and was against the >> Kaiser), became a seaman of some sort on a ship which w! >> as shipwrecked of the coast of Hartlepool. He and his crew were in the >> fever hospital which is where he met my grandmother. As I say, how much >> is >> true I don't know. We have seacrhed records via the internet etc for >> years, but it doesn't seem to have been a common name. Apparently he also >> spoke fluent Yiddish! I think I'm getting a bit deperante, but when I saw >> the words Germany Passenger Lists, I thought it might be worth a go. >> >> I'm sure that you'll probably tell me you can't help, but that's fine I'm >> used to it. Thank you for reading my ramblings anyway! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Gail Friskney >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GERMANY-PASSENGER-LISTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >