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Title: wilhelmina becker
Post by: springtime 60 on Wednesday 22 August 07 21:04 BST (UK)

would wilhelmina becker have travelled over on  a ship to england ,is there somewhere i can search ?when and which port

Title: Re: wilhelmina becker
Post by: aghadowey on Thursday 23 August 07 11:17 BST (UK)

You don't mention where she came from and when. Unless she arrived in U.K. very recently it would probably have been via ship (unless from Wales or Scotland to England). More information will help someone answer your questions.

Title: Re: wilhelmina becker
Post by: springtime 60 on Thursday 23 August 07 21:53 BST (UK)

wilhelmina came prior to 1881 she is on that census as a servant in lewisham came from germany ?lived in rhiensch i think it is spelt
       

Title: Re: wilhelmina becker
Post by: aghadowey on Thursday 23 August 07 22:04 BST (UK)

Wilhelmina must have come by ship then. Not sure where Rheinsch is but there were so many shipping routes from Germany (my German relatives traveled from Saar and Bavaria from Antwerp in Belgium).

Title: Re: wilhelmina becker
Post by: springtime 60 on Thursday 23 August 07 22:27 BST (UK)

as far as i know the name of the place wilhelmina comes from is a district between Bergisch Gladbach and Cologne the name is Rheinsch maybe someone can offer where she would of travelled  from to england i am searching records that would have her date of birth

Title: Re: wilhelmina becker
Post by: Rossi14 on Friday 31 August 07 11:20 BST (UK)

There is no district between Bergisch Gladbach and Cologne. Bergisch Gladbach is a town in the "Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis". "Kreis" - literally translated circle - is comparable to the British county.
Cologne (the county is named after the city Cologne) is one of neighboring counties to the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis. The R-B K has a county twinning to Cumbria in England.
There are eight municipalities in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (sorted by size):
1. Bergisch Gladbach
2. Wermelskirchen
3. Leichlingen
4. Overath
5. Rösrath
6. Kürten
7. Burscheid
8. Odenthal
Maybe one of these names sounds familiar to you?

Edit: I don't think that gives an indication how she travelled to England. Distancewise, it does not really matter if you travel from there via one of the Dutch harbors, Bremen, Hamburg or one of the smaller German harbors.

Rossi

Title: Re: wilhelmina becker
Post by: springtime 60 on Friday 31 August 07 16:14 BST (UK)

hopefully i am going to get a records office address for syke bremen in germany where i have an address for her father in 1920 maybe i will find info from that thank you

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