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Originally Posted by GARDINER1
Maybe his mother was English! I do feel there is a link to the South of England and the sea. He told my mother his father was a ship's captain and he died at sea with his wife, but on the wedding certificate he put his father was a shipping agent.
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I don't think he would automatically have been a British citizen at that date if his parents were married and his father was German or Austrian and his mother was English. But I'm not certain.