GERMANY: fritz becker

[springtime 60]

i am hoping to trace my greatgrandmother
 wilhelmina becker1864 /1865  birth certificate,   all i know is that her father fritz becker was at this address in august 1920
Fritz Becker
c/o Der Postmeister
Syke
Bremen

 .any help to where i can write off to would be appriecated
with thanks
                          ann

[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Ann,

what else does it say on the birth certificate.

"c/o Der Postmeister" doesn't really help. It's the equivalent of saying c/o The Post Office", a "post restante" address i.e. not living here, but in the area for a while, so you collect your post here now and then.

regards,
Bob

[springtime 60]

i am searching for a birth certificate for wilhelmina ,i haven't got one i only know of this address from the heading of a letter in aug 1920  of fritz becker i have no other info to work on
                           ann

[Rossi14]

Hi Ann,
If I understood you correctly, Wilhelmina Becker was born in 1865/66, probably somewhere in Lower Saxonia or Bremen. Syke is a town in Lower Saxonia, County Diepholz.
There are no civil records from before 1870/71 in this area, so you have to stick with church records.
To find the church record stating her birth, you need to know the religious confession. Also, you should be able to determine her place of birth as close as possible.

Rossi

[springtime 60]

as far as i know she is a catholic she married in a catholic church in reading ,but not sure a catholic from birth i presume she was wiilhelmina becker 1864 /1865
                                            ann

[springtime 60]

i'm still busy trying to trace wilhelmina 1864  and her father fritz becker,i have tried stadtarchiv syke 28857 and stadarchiv 21677 stade.
any other offers of where to try to trace a birth cert for them.
i'm not sure exactly where the place of origin is for them
                          ann
                         


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[Berlin-Bob]

Hi Ann,

without any more details, I am afraid there is not a lot you can do.

BECKER is a common name in Germany, along with variations Bäcker, Baecker, Bekker, Baekker, etc, and Fritz (or more likely Friedrich) and Wilhelmina are also common names.

There is no equivalent website to the freeBMD or GRO birth indexes in Germany.

regards,
Bob

[jorose]

If she was born 1864/1865, her father would probably have been in his 70s or 80s by 1920.  Berlin-Bob, how much luck would she have if she wrote to Syke to ask for a death certificate for Fritz Becker, without an exact date?

[springtime 60]

thank you its worth a try ,something that i hadn't thought of doing.i'm sure at that age he wasn't moving house that often.its worth a try as i do have an address for him in 1920 maybe that would help with a search for a death.
i am really determined to try to find them.i really enjoy doing my research into my ancestors
i would go to the end of the earth to get a positive result
thank you
                    ann