Walter Fehse and Edith Hertha (Herta) Crammer (?) immigrating to New Zealand

[Dreamer92]

Hello. I'm a New Zealander with German ancestry.

My great grandparents are:
Walter Fritz (?) Fehse. He was born 1896 and died in 1980
Edith Hertha (Herta??) Fehse. She was born 1898 and died in 1972. Her maiden name was something like Cramer, Crammer or even Kraemer etc.

They arrived in New Zealand at an unknown date.

They had only one child. Her name was Hertha (Herta?) Maria Brigitta Fehse. Born 1927
She was named Bridget/Brigitta in New Zealand.

I believe I found a record here from Australia??

http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?gl=ROOT_CATEGORY&gsln=Fehse&gsln_x=XO&gss=angs-c

Walter and Herta are listed as the only people going to New Zealand. As far as I know they never went to Australia.

I want to find some record of their parents and birth area. Thank you

[Dreamer92]

Update: they moved to New Zealand sometime in 1951-1952
I found a document! Yay!
I can't find their birth areas apart from Walter was born in Lipezig. I would like to find out more info

[Geufke]

Dear Dreamer92,
here are the archives, where you can find the birth certification of your grandfather.

You can contact them by this e-mail-adress, they should understand and write in English: stadtarchiv@leipzig.de

But it is better you have at least the exact birth date, because the searching in the archives will cost 20€ (circa 30 New Zealand Dollar) half-hourly and Leipzig was a big city in those days.

Greetings from Greece,
Anja

[Artsch]

Hallo Dreamer,

historisches Adressbuch Leipzig 1949:

Fehse, Walter, TranspArb (Transportarbeiter), Kohlweg 36 in Leipzig 1949
Fehse, Walter, Tiefbauarb (Tiefbauarbeiter), Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 120 in Leipzig 1949

Beste Grüße
Artsch

[wolfganghorlbeck]

Helo Dreamer,

here is a document of Immigration of Walter and Hertha Fehse in 1951.

And here you can find two records of World War II:

http://des.genealogy.net/eingabe-verlustlisten/search/index

Best regards
Wolfgang

[Geufke]

Hello again, a friend sent me 2 documents. One is the same which uploaded Wolfgang. The other you find attached.
Greetings, Anja

[Dreamer92]

Thanks you for your help!
The First World War document seems to be him. Birthdate is correct. I think he was in the war but I can't remember.
Will ask my mum if her grandfather was in the war.


The death certificate for my greatgrandmother is correct. Has my mother's name and her sister's. Amazing you found that! Thanks!

I contacted the register a few hours ago with the birth dates. I've seen two birth years for my greatgrandfather and I'm not sure which one is correct. It's either 1895 or 1896.
I hope they can still help and I don't have to pay.

Is anyone able to find anything else out?

[Dreamer92]

Well they never got back to me.
Anyone else can help here?

[Dreamer92]

Just found out that Walter had a sister named Toni.
Not sure If her last name was Fehse also. Or if Toni was short for anything.
She lived in New York.

Can anyone find any information to connect her to Walter?
Thank you very much