name: Karl Otto Rrueger 
event: Christening 
event date: 13 Apr 1873 
event place: Friedland, Friedland, Lübben, Brandenburg, Germany 
gender: Male 
religion: Evangelische 
father: Friedrich Krueger 
mother: Henriette Musik 
volume: 197, 198 
page: 
film number: 1273046 
digital folder number: 004109931 
image number: 00708 

Sophie accompanied Richard Rueger and family when they returned to Germany (Bremen) 7 April 1922.  Richard felt betrayed by the British after he was interned towards the end of the first world war and wanted to return to his homeland.  Unfortunately, they returned to Germany just as the great depression hit with hyper-inflation and effectively lost all the money they had taken with them.  They were assisted with accommodation in Bremen by the Dunkacke family. 

Sadly, Richard only lasted 18 months and died 25 October 1923.  The family then struggled to survive and lived through the Hitler years.  They held on to their British passports, however (hiding them from the authorities), and when Bremen was liberated by the British in 1945, they were repatriated to the UK.  Ronald V, in the meantime, had escaped to England (not sure exactly when) before he could be called up to the German army and, there, joined the British Army!  When the remainder of the family were repatriated, one of the first things Ronald did was persuade them all to change their name from Rueger to Rogers (to avoid any possible repercussions from the British people).  He had already changed his.

Aged 26 in 1911

Name: Mary Frederica Westpfahl
Year of Registration: 1885
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: West Derby, Lancashire
Volume: 8b
Page: 339 

WESTPLANE, MARY  FREDERICA      DUNKAKE 
GRO Reference: 1885  D Quarter in WEST DERBY 
Volume 08B  Page 339

 

Births Sep 1908   (>99%)
Rueger  Bernard Otto C     W. Derby  8b 640

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1908
RUEGER Bernard Oc West Derby Eastern Liverpool   WDE/26/13

Recorded as an unnamed child on 1911 census, under 1 month, so must have been born in March, and recorded Q2-1911.


Births Jun 1911   (>99%)
Rueger  Vilma M     Birkenhead  8a 497

Deaths Mar 1915   (>99%)
Rueger  Wilma M  3  W. Derby  8b 875

Births Mar 1918   (90%)
Rueger  Ronald V  Westphal  W. Derby  8b [0_]85  

Lancashire Birth indexes for the years: 1918
RUEGER Ronald V West Derby Eastern Liverpool   WDE/56/28

Deaths Mar 1963   (>99%)
ROGERS     RONALD V  50,  PLYMOUTH     7A, 989
(Would have been 45 in 1963, so probably another)