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March 1946

Emil was sent to POW camp 250 at Hardwick in Buy St Edmunds where he began working at several farms before finally settling down at Street Farm, Chedburgh where he lived in a house on the farm. It was from here that he met and started courting the local Post-mistress by the name of Edna Rolfe.

June 1946
As its purpose had been served in bringing about the end of the conflict, Harold’s ship was brought back to Portsmouth where it was ‘mothballed’ along with several others. Harold was then de-mobilised (demobbed) and went back to Stowmarket where he courted a Haughley girl named Marjorie King.

August 28th 1948
Twenty three year old Harold Ernest Williams married Marjorie Edna King on the day before her nineteenth birthday at Haughley Parish Church. They lived for few years with Fred and Nell Williams, Harold’s parents, in Poplar Hill, Combs Ford before moving to their own council house in Stowmarket in 1952.

November 25th 1948
Twenty-six year old Emil Weingaertner married Edna May Rolfe at Chevington Church. He was also released from POW status at this time but certified as an alien and had to report to camp once a week as well as to the police station if he wanted to travel out of the immediate area.

June 1949
Emil was given the chance to take part in a government organised repatriation scheme so was able to with his new wife back to Germany. Whilst there he was officially demobbed at Munster and then went to the Stuttgart area to visit relatives. He was given the opportunity to stay in Germany but decided to take his chance and return to England. They lived for a few years at Chevington but eventually ended living in Bury St Edmunds.

September 3rd 1949
Emil and Edna’s daughter Rosemary was born on the tenth anniversary of the outbreak of war.

June 6th 1950
Harold and Marjorie’s son Stephen James Williams was born on the sixth anniversary of D-Day.

June 6th 1970
Kerry Jayne Weingaertner was born to Rosemary on the twenty-sixth anniversary of D-Day at Cambridge Hospital.

July 21st 1973
Twenty-three year old Stephen Williams married Rosemary Weingaertner of the same age at Bury St Edmunds Register Office and returned to live in Stowmarket. Emil’s occupation was given as farm stockman and Harold was listed as colour matcher at paints factory (ICI)

January 10th 1975
Stephen officially adopts Kerry at Stowmarket Magistrates Court and she takes the surname of Williams.

April 11th 1975
Stephen and Rosemary’s son Owen Richard Williams was born at Ipswich Heath Road

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