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Hello,

The coat of arms in the attached picture was granted by the King of Hungary to Johannes Ribstein, doctor of medicine in 1622. Ribstein's academic achievements, his subsequent career in medicine (including service in the Imperial Army during the sieges of Ottomon-held Buda) and his dedication to his adopted city earned him the recognition of the lords and commoners alike, leading to his elevation to the untitled nobility of Hungary.

Translated from the Latin original, the coat of arms is described as follows:

An upright escutcheon in five different parts: lower left and upper right, on a red field, two swans swimming, each holding a laurel wreath in their beaks; lower right and upper left, on a yellow field, two black lions rampant, each with a palm frond in the forefeet, red tongues extended, erect forked tails: in the middle another shield, the fifth part, is positioned, blue with green edging and bottom section, Pallas clothed in yellow is seen holding out a crown in her right hand and a palm frond in her left. Above the escutcheon, an open or barred helm, insignia of the highest nobility, and the emblem of the Equestrian Order, a royal crown, another Pallas set between two eagles’ wings, red-silver and black-gold, half-prominent above the rest of the lower part, decorated in a similar fashion throughout. From the top of the helm hang mantling and lambels; on the right red and silver, on the left gold and black, down the edges of the shield floating here and there, and adorning the shield.

I was hoping that somebody may be able to explain the significance of the devices employed in the coat of arms.

Many thanks.

Hello everyone,

As far as I know, or recall, the 'signing of the registers' following a marriage ceremony actually entails (or entailed) signing two registers; one was retained by the institute where the marriage took place, the other being hand over to the registry office. The latter set of registers form the collection held by the GRO.

The two attached certificates were provided by the Belgrave Synagogue in Leeds, where Moses Dombin and Elizabeth Dombin married (different partners) on 14 August 1869. Only the name of the father of Elizabeth's husband was recorded. The parents of Moses' wife, Catherine, were very much alive and living in living in Mile End Old Town. She and Moses were living with them in 1871; she was still with them in 1881, when Moses was investigating a future in the USA.

Elizabeth Blashkey (born Dombin) lived to the grand old age of 98, dying in 1948. The Hebrew inscription on her gravestone states that her father was called Asher; the name she gave to her first-born son in 1872. Moses Dombin's third son, born in 1881, was also called Asher. This leads me to believe that Moses and Elizabeth were cousins, rather than siblings. But that's another story for another thread.

The question is, would it be worth while ordering certs from the GRO in the expectation that they had been completed in full and would include the names of all the fathers?

Justin

Hello Latin experts!!

I would be very interested to know the contents of the attached short text, which is an entry in the Album Amicorum compiled by a German student of medicine in Padua (Italy).

The author of the text was one of my 8th great-grandfathers, Johann Georgius Ribstein, who was born in Ödenburg, which is now Sopron just inside Hungary, in 1619. A few months prior to writing the text, he had been awarded a doctorate in medicine from the University of Padua.

In 1757, the 25-year-old German immigrant Johann Friedrich Hoffmann married Elizabeth Willmot in St. Andrew's church in Holborn, London.

John, as he called himself, wrote a will in late 1778 in which he made bequests to his wife, his unmarried sister and a niece, Elenor Lusington or Susington. The will was proved in Apr 1782.

"Elenor Lusington" appears in the first line of attached extract from the will. To me, the first letter of her surname resembles the "S" in "Sum" and "Sums" or perhaps more the "L" in "London" and "Lord" in the section beginning "This will..." at the bottom.

I have been unable to find any record of Elenor or any likely other family members. John's other sister in England had the married name Hardess, so I assume that I'm looking for a Lusington-Willmot marriage.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Justin

I would appreciate a translation of the following Latin phrase which appears as a column heading in the 1735 census of the Jewish population of Hungary:

Dominus illius haereditarius in vel extra Hungarium est

The response was "In Moravia D. Comes Kaunicz". I know that the Counts of Kaunicz (Kaunitz) had many possession in southern Moravia, i.e. on the Czech/Slovak border. What would the "D" have stood for in this context?