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England / Re: Men of German Ancestry Serving in the Second Boer War
« on: Friday 11 October 13 13:34 BST (UK)  »
Preliminary research for a project on local men serving in the Second Boer War has revealed some German names. 

One is a Harry WOLPORT (or WOLPERT etc) who served with the Yorkshire Regt.  I've come across him before when researching the German community in the Rotherham area - he was the son of Joseph and Lissetta Wolport.  He had served with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion York and Lancs before enlisting with the Yorkshire Regt at the end of 1892, and re-enlisted when the Great War broke out.  Another is George WAGNER, who I believe to be the son of a John Wagner, another family I have seen before and who came from the same area as my own German ancestors (Grossenlinden, Hesse).  A third name I am not familiar with is WEINECKE. 

I wondered if anyone else has come across sons of German-born parents serving with the British forces during this period. 

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England / Re: German Ancestors in the North of England
« on: Wednesday 25 July 12 19:02 BST (UK)  »
I'm another Anglo-German FHS member.  Is there anyone out there who has any Ulrichs in their family tree?

My gt-gt-grandfather, Jacob Ulrich, born c1844 in Germany, married a Catharina Weiss in 1870, at Grossenlinden, Hesse-Darmstadt.  His parents were Philipp Ulrich and Elisabetha Koch.  Jacob and Catharina came to South Yorkshire in the early 1870s, and Jacob remained in the UK until 1916 when he was sent back to Germany.

I haven't been able to find a baptism for him, or a marriage for his parents, amongst the German records on FamilySearch, and wondered if anyone has found other mention of his parents or possible siblings for him.  He did give his place of birth as Frankfurt in some census records.

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