A Hildegard Beate Nothmann, teacher from Germany, received UK naturalisation in 1947; she was then living in Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield. An entry in a 1956 passenger list gives the same full name and date of birth as those given by her father in Geschichte Nothmann and identifies her as a teacher with British nationality. The 1960 UK Electoral Register lists a Hildegard B Nothmann living in Jaffray Road, Erdington, Birmingham (about 5 miles from the Four Oaks address). In 1962 Hildegard B Nothmann married Laban Ward in Sutton Coldfield.

A Hildegard Beate Ward died in Barnstable in 2017; UK Electoral Registers & Companies House Directors show Laban and Hildegard Ward living at an address in Barnstable from 2002 to 2010.