rdmelbourne
20-03-2008, 6:55 AM
My g/grandfather was killed in ww1 . He was In the British Army. His service records state he was born in Riga, Russia (now Latvia). His marriage certificate (1901 Sunderland) says he was a mariner and his father was a master mariner.
His family name was Knorr, so he would have been a baltic German,(Half of Riga was ethnic German in the 1500-1800s) Russian.
Can anyone offer advice on how to track g/grandfathers (Henry Edward Knorr b1878) mariner records and g/g/grandfathers (also Henry Knorr) Russian master mariner records?
His family name was Knorr, so he would have been a baltic German,(Half of Riga was ethnic German in the 1500-1800s) Russian.
Can anyone offer advice on how to track g/grandfathers (Henry Edward Knorr b1878) mariner records and g/g/grandfathers (also Henry Knorr) Russian master mariner records?