Birth in Hannover, Germany

[poolekevin]

hi KARK . I wondered if your Nephew had the answer to the question , Do we have German in our
Family . I am finding it hard to find a link  in knowing John Starkey , parent's in Hannover .English or German !!
My Dad and I  Went to a astwood cemetery, last February. My Dad's Cousin Brian Poole, past away in a nursing home in Worcester. And a elderly  stranger came up to me . And he said do you know your family . The "STARKEY" Were German !!. I said No. And he told me the Starkey name was spell Star"kie . I did  asked him ,Where he lived. So that I could ask me question . But I forgot his Name. He lives some where in Comer road Worcester .and I think his surname begin with M, in his eighty   I am still looking!!  ..I let you know when I find him !!
I would be grateful for you and your nephew's answer.
Kevin Poole

[Kark]

Kevin I would be very interested to know who this guy is.
I don't think there is any doubt that we are German. My nephew has come up with a German name and has followed it back but unless he can prove that this man came here and we can positively identify him, then I am not adding him to my tree.
Remind me of your email address and I will try and send you the info from my nephew.

Regards
 Carol

[poolekevin]

poolekevin@sky.com
thank you very much  kark.. looked forward to your nephew reply. kevin poole  Worcester
 

[poolekevin]

Thank you, Carol , Do you know John Starkey Birthday,  not year !! And  is he buried at astwood ?
Kevin Poole

[davidft]

I don't know if your John Starkey had a middle name Jacob. If so this entry from familysearch may be worth further investigation

Johann Jacob Sterken
Germany Births and Baptisms, 1558-1898
birth:   11 October 1854   BEDBURDYCK, RHEINLAND, PRUSSIA   
father:   Anton Victor Sterken
mother:   Anna Maria Coenen

Although it says birth was in BEDBURDYCK, RHEINLAND, PRUSSIA    it should not immediately be discounted as the Kingdom of Hannover and certainly covered large parts of the Rhineland before it was taken over by Prussia in 1866

[Richard Knott]

A lot of the German records on Familysearch are unindexed, so you could trawl though some of the Saxony records (although I think you need Lower Saxony, so I don't know whethere there are (m)any of those:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/location/1927074?region=Germany

This lists a lot of information on Lower Saxony records:
http://www.genealogy.net/reg/NSAC/nsac.html

Richard

[carole maidment]

Hi Kevin. John Starkey was my Gt G'father. He was born in Prussia as said, you have the right German family.  On the history side of things, Willy Yarnold who married one of the Starkey girls (can't remember which one) did an in-depth search into the Sterken family and I was told that he went to Germany and visited the family years ago.

[hscott21]

I don't know if this will help, but Hannover office of vital records could be worthwhile contacting (even though there was heavy bombing and destruction in WW2)

Standesamt
Office of vital records in Hanover, Germany
Address: Heiligerstraße 1, 30159 Hannover, Germany
Hours: Open today · 8:30am–12:30pm
Phone: +49 511 1680

Also, here is a link for someone else who was looking for Hannover family history.

https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/ShowTopic-g187351-i1104-k9292264-Family_History_in_Hannover-Hannover_Lower_Saxony.html


Good Luck!