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Surname 'HOMBURG'
« on: Friday 09 January 09 11:40 GMT (UK) »
Am trying to do some research on a family with the Surname 'HOMBURG'.
Specifically a George David HOMBERG who was born 1838 to 1840 in Chelsea area of London. I cannot find anything on the Free BMD and i have only found him on on the later census returns... 1881 i think, cannot find on 1841 and 1851 which would be handy as would hopefully give me parent details and clues as to the famliy origin.

The surname seems rare on all records and i suspect it came from Germany??? or maybe Jewish ???

Anyone with any ideas out there.

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Re: Surname 'HOMBURG'
« Reply #1 on: Friday 09 January 09 12:26 GMT (UK) »
Have you got his marriage certificate to Harriet Colley (Dec qtr 1863, Chelsea 1a 365) which would give his fathers name?

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Re: Surname 'HOMBURG'
« Reply #2 on: Friday 09 January 09 12:41 GMT (UK) »
They are here on 1871 census: RG10/700/121/27 with George's POB given as Germany (can't work out where though, sorry).

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Re: Surname 'HOMBURG'
« Reply #3 on: Friday 09 January 09 12:50 GMT (UK) »
Hi Iain,

I don't know for sure if this is your David, but there are naturalisation records for a George David Homburg at the TNA
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/default.asp
(Enter: homburg AND naturalisation in the search box)

Homburg, George David, from Prussia. Certificate A1804 issued 9 February 1876.

Sometimes it's worth getting these papers, sometimes it isn't.
See some topics here for members experiences with this:
Topic: RootsChat Topics - Naturalisation and Internment
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,157691.0.html

regards,
Bob

ps. Don't be put off by the references in the list to Hesse Homburg.  Apart from being a common surname in Germany (HOMBURG, HOMBERG) there is also a town in Germany, in the federal state of Hesse, named Homburg.
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Re: Surname 'HOMBURG'
« Reply #4 on: Friday 09 January 09 13:09 GMT (UK) »
Could the place of birth in 1871 be Schapten?  (Formerly in East Prussia; now in Russia.)

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Re: Surname 'HOMBURG'
« Reply #5 on: Friday 09 January 09 13:32 GMT (UK) »
You could well be right M R.  Fingers crossed, a cropped image is attached and it is the birth place of the two cabinet makers that needs to be deciphered!

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Re: Surname 'HOMBURG'
« Reply #6 on: Friday 09 January 09 13:45 GMT (UK) »
hi.

the clipping from the census... is the wifes name Hettie or Harriet ???

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Re: Surname 'HOMBURG'
« Reply #7 on: Friday 09 January 09 13:53 GMT (UK) »
Harriett I think.  Will just go and check

Added - t'is indeed Harriett - with a double t.  On Ancestry they were transcribed as Hembury, although the brother, John, is transcribed as Homburg

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Re: Surname 'HOMBURG'
« Reply #8 on: Friday 09 January 09 18:45 GMT (UK) »
thanks for that.
i am going in search for it now.

ta