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Willi (aka William) married Rosina Gertrude Whybrow 6/3/1948 in Dartford Register Office. His father was Wilhelm Storckmann, factory worker. I have the marriage cert.

Willi was a German POW (Swanscombe Camp in Kent) who, like many others, stayed and married.

I was wondering if anyone has access, and can read German records so that I can get further back in his ancestory

Gerry

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Name William Storckmann
Event Type Death Registration
Registration Quarter Oct-Nov-Dec
Registration Year 1985
Registration District Gravesend
County Kent
Event Place Gravesend, Kent, England
Birth Date (available after June quarter 1969) 25 Nov 1927
Volume 16
Page 822

This might be useful for you to plough through, or to ask on those boards:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=11860.0

Do you know what part of Germany he came from?

Unfortunately I only know what I have said. I am researching this for a friend and its going the same way as MY paternal family. My father was also a German POW and I got no further than he was from Germany and his father's name.

Unfortunately, having Googled German genealogy, it looks as if, without knowing where in Germany they came from, it would be difficult using German genealogy sites, even if you understood the language.

Does your friend know nothing of his father's background - area of Germany, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins?

most Storckmann's come from Evangelisch, Eickel Gelsenkirchen, Westfalen, Prussia

There are also quite a few records for people named Storchmann (note spelling) in German records on Ancestry - mainly from the same area as Ann mentioned.

Thank you.