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 was 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