German Pork Butchers in Britain

[SwissGill]

Hello Schwabsearcher

Well, now you have made 2 so if you make a short reply to me, you will have made 3 and then you can PM Histres.

Good luck and welcome to the Pork Butcher family.

Gill

[schwabsearcher]

Thank you Gill!
 Everyone is so helpful on this site.Until I found this site yesterday I had no idea that so many German Pork Butchers came to England.I thought my family were a rarity! Looking up a German surname on the geneology websites has made the English side of thing very easy but now for the hard bit,finding the forefathers.

[Histres]

Hi Gill,
Schwabsearcher has already done three posts now and has contacted me right away by sending a pm. Thank you very much for your help.
Hope you and your husband are doing well!

Best wishes
Histres

[johnbhoy]

Thank you Gill!
 Everyone is so helpful on this site.Until I found this site yesterday I had no idea that so many German Pork Butchers came to England.I thought my family were a rarity! Looking up a German surname on the geneology websites has made the English side of thing very easy but now for the hard bit,finding the forefathers.

Welcome aboard schwabsearcher, you'll find they're a helpful bunch on here, Gill was the first to reply to my post back in 2009  ....  and Histres pointed me in the right direction when I kept coming up against brick Wall(s)   

[SwissGill]

Yes, I think one could say that Histres is our "angel in disguise". We have all been helped by him at one time or another.

There is also a feeling of belonging as we all have ancestors in the Hohenlohe region and can rejoice every time one of us finds or has been been lead to the origins of his or her family.

Who knows, we might find that we share "porky" relations and that would be the "icing on the cake".

Gill

[Bethgem]

I think the same SwissGill. Histres is dedicated too, and keeps in touch.

I met him at the lecture in Bradford in 2011 and was so awe-struck that I forgot my username as I introduced myself. Anyway, the main thing was to thank him in person for the help he gave me in finding my paternal family in Germany. I will be eternally grateful.

[schwabsearcher]

I can't thank Histres enough for the help he has given me already! Also thankyou Swiss Gill and Johnbhoy for the warm welcome to the group.

[johnbhoy]

Did anyone see Rick Stein on Who Do You Think You Are. His Grandparents were subjected to anti-German hostility, even in a small leafy English town. I guess the harassment was more widespread than just London & Liverpool.
Also mentioned in the programme, that over 38000 civilians of German descent were detained during WW1.

[hellhappy]

Hi there, sorry just to pop in but i wonder if anyone knows of the Graters that emmigrated from Hermuthausen approx 1888 to start a Pork Butcher shop in Sunderland called Grater and Sons.
Georg Heinrich Graeter b 15 April 1972 and married Margaret Etzel who i know very little about. I am heading to Germany and to these regions in the the next 2 weeks and am hoping to find more about my GG Grandfather George. His name became George Henry Grater in Sunderland England and his son John Henry took over the business but my grandfather left England to come to NZ *(where he continued in the meat business as did my father until 1989). I understand the shop at 51 High Street East, Sunderland is still standing (without the sign) and has recently been deemed a historical building so is going to be restored. If anyone can help at all, would be much appreciated, Regards, Helen from NZ