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Title: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: PaulSand on Tuesday 21 August 12 14:51 BST (UK)
Hi there,
i have built up a family tree of all my English ancestors, but have come to a halt at a George DEIDRICH Sandmann. i know he was a German national born cira 1821 but have no idea how to proceed further. he married a Mary Ann JENKINS - Whitechapel 1849 sep qtr.i also know he ended up in Liverpool, i seem to have hit a brick wall as how he came to the UK. anyone have any ideas how or where to search?

Thanks, Regards

Paul
Title: Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: kmart66 on Tuesday 21 August 12 15:09 BST (UK)
Hi

Parish church of the Holy Trinity Minories

29 July 1849
George Diedrich Sandmann, bachelor, sugar refiner, 3 Gaulston Square, (father) John Henry Sandmann, farmer
Mary Ann Jenkins, spinster, 8 Petticoat Lane, (father) William Jenkins, stonemason

Both of full age, George signed, Mary X
Witnesses, Thomas Kennett & Charles Godfrey

Kevin

PS. Just noticed a tree for him on Anc...ry covering his family in Germany
Title: Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: CarolA3 on Tuesday 21 August 12 16:07 BST (UK)
Hi Paul and welcome to Rootschat :)

If you click on 'Search' at the top of this page and enter 'German sugar refiner' as your search term, then scroll to the bottom and click the 'Search' button (leaving all the boxes ticked), you get snippets from over 40 posts containing those three words.  Then click on their titles to read the full threads.

Bet you find something useful in that lot ;D
Carol
Title: Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: carol8353 on Tuesday 21 August 12 16:38 BST (UK)
Great sugar workers website http://home.clara.net/mawer/directory.html#silv
Title: Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: PaulSand on Tuesday 21 August 12 20:01 BST (UK)
Hey guys
 thank you so much for your help, can see a few late nights coming  :)

1 question do i have to pay to see family trees on Anc...ry?

Regards
Paul
Title: Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: GrahamSimons on Sunday 26 August 12 11:23 BST (UK)
You might consider joining http://www.agfhs.org.uk/ to help with your German research. One bit from my experience: remember that national boundaries have changed a lot, and somewhere you might think of as Germany now might then have been Prussia; and somewhere that was German then might now be Poland, for example.
Title: Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: ev on Sunday 26 August 12 11:42 BST (UK)
Quote from: PaulSand on Tuesday 21 August 12 20:01 BST (UK)
Hey guys
 thank you so much for your help, can see a few late nights coming  :)

1 question do i have to pay to see family trees on Anc...ry?

Regards
Paul

Try the Mundia website for family trees(Free sign up)

http://www.mundia.com/ca/

ev
Title: Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: trachelospermum on Monday 27 August 12 08:32 BST (UK)
Alien arrivals are free on Ancestry right now! I finally found the arrival of my german ancestor yesterday!
Title: Re: Tracing a German Ancestor
Post by: trachelospermum on Monday 27 August 12 08:40 BST (UK)
Looks like yesterday was the last free day  :-[ However there was a Sandmann (no christian name given) who arrived in London on 7th Feb 1839, born in Germany but arrived from Rotterdam on the Attwood. Maybe he's your man?