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Tracing Prussian ancestors?

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  Posted by Ros (U1905634) on Monday, 29th August 2005

  According to the 1851/1861 London Censuses, one of my ancestors was born in Prussia in about 1819, although in later Censuses he put Scotland as place of birth!
  
  He married in London in 1842, from which certificate I have his father's name, although not occupation.
  
  I have found the father as a Visitor and widower on the 1861 Census in Coventry - also born in Prussia - in about 1792 - but nowhere else. I have searched Deaths from 1861 to 1881 for the father, without any luck.
  
  I have also searched The National Archives for Naturalisation Papers but only found a similar surname in 1856, which I have ordered.
  
  Does anyone have any ideas as to where I may look to find their origins?
  
  Any help would be much appreciated!
  
  TIA.
  
  Ros
  
  

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  Posted by dmatt74 (U1690430) on Monday, 29th August 2005

  Prussia has two locations (Ost and West)either side of modern-day Poland.
  
  Have you looked at the published naturalisation lists?, which are not necessarily on The National Archives, Kew, website. You could look at later census entries, but there are a number of variations in the transcriptions, so look at Deutschesland, Bundesrepublick, Germany and the like, along with German and English spellings.
  
  The Anglo-German Family History Society may have some helpful advice to offer.

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  Posted by Ros (U1905634) on Tuesday, 30th August 2005

  dmatt74
  
  Many thanks!
  
  I really am ignorant!! Where would I find the published naturalisation lists?
  
  I have now tried a more Germanic spelling of the name and may have found the father in Edinburgh in 1827 in the Post Office Annual Directory and, possibly, in the Leeds and Bradford Directory in 1853. So, thank you, again, for my 'starter for 10'!!
  
  I will also try the Anglo-German FHS, as you suggest.
  
  Regards.
  
  Ros
  

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  Posted by dmatt74 (U1690430) on Tuesday, 30th August 2005

  They are at The National Archives, Kew.

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  Posted by Ros (U1905634) on Wednesday, 31st August 2005

  Thank you, again!
  
  Really must get my brain in gear!
  
  Ros
  

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