[ungelöst] Correct town names

[rvanderwindt]

Name des gesuchten Ortes: Werkenheim bei Frankfurt / Weggene a/d Donau
Zeit/Jahr der Nennung: 1747
Ungefähre oder vermutete Lage/Region:
Ich habe die Datenbanken zur Ortssuche abgefragt [nein]:

Hello everyone,

I got a tip from someone that this is the place to ask about certain places and that it was okay to do this in English. For some time now I have been trying to find out more information about a German ancestor of mine. Not alot of information is known about him, but in two different documents, his place of birth (or at least previous home town) is mentioned.

So far it seems like both places don't exist or have been written wrong. They are Werkenheim bei Frankfurt / Weggene (?) a/d Donau. I hope someone can help me find out the correct place(s)!

The name of the ancestor is Jan Leonhard (Johannes Leonardus) Mambers. In later years, the name changed to Mampers. There's a chance that the last name before Mambers was slightly different too.

[renatehelene]

Hi,

it would also help to know his/her first and last familyname.

[katrinkasper]

Guten Abend,
a similiar name would be Berkersheim.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt-Berkersheim

Bergen-Enkheim sounds similiar, too:

http://gov.genealogy.net/item/show/BEREI1_W6000

[Tunnelratte]

Hello,

maybe Wengen near Dillingen / Donau

https://www.google.fr/maps/place/48%C2%B031'00.0%22N+10%C2%B036'00.0%22E/@48.5299724,10.5971569,14z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d48.5166667!4d10.6

[rvanderwindt]

Hi,

it would also help to know his/her first and last familyname.

His name is Jan Leonhard (Johannes Leonardus) Mambers. In later years, the name changed to Mampers. There's a chance that the last name before Mambers was slightly different too.

[Anna Sara Weingart]

Hello rvanderwindt
Could you please show us your sources ?

In this forum we try to work very careful and precise.
Best regards.

[rvanderwindt]

Hello rvanderwindt
Could you please show us your sources ?

In this forum we try to work very careful and precise.
Best regards.

I have added an attachment from the marriage records.

[Kasstor]

Hi,

what time are we talking about? The eldest Johannes Leonardus I found was born Mar 21, 1784 in Vlaardingen.
Got it: http://geneal-forum.com/phpbb/phpBB3...2327&view=next

Regards,

Thomas

[rvanderwindt]

Hi,

what time are we talking about? The eldest Johannes Leonardus I found was born Mar 21, 1784 in Vlaardingen.
Got it: http://geneal-forum.com/phpbb/phpBB3...2327&view=next

Regards,

Thomas

The one you found is a grandson of the one I'm looking for. Named after his grandfather.

[rvanderwindt]

Jan Leonhard Mambers married in 1747 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. So I am gonna assume he was born between 1720-1727 somewhere in Germany. He seem to have died in 1842 in Dutch East-India

[Kasstor]

Mambers or Mampers surname not listed in today´s German phonebook, just Mamber: http://legacy.stoepel.net/de/Map.ash...DE_DE&mode=rel

Thomas

[Anna Sara Weingart]

But there were Mamber in Wurttemberg, as you can see here:

https://familysearch.org/search/tree/results?count=75&query=%2Bsurname%3AMam*~%20%2Bany_place%3ABerkersheim~%20%2Bany_year%3A1720-1730~

[rvanderwindt]

Mambers or Mampers surname not listed in today´s German phonebook, just Mamber: http://legacy.stoepel.net/de/Map.ash...DE_DE&mode=rel

Thomas

I remember seeing the following suggestion once. I don't know where the person saw this, but he thoughts that this might have been a possibility as well:

Joannes Mompers, baptized 19-2-1718 Meckenheim

Possible parents:
Nicolass Mompers
Elisabeth Caspars

[Anna Sara Weingart]

OK. That is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meckenheim,_Rhineland-Palatinate

It is "near Frankfurt", if you see it from the Nederlands

[Anna Sara Weingart]

... Weggene (?) a/d Donau ...

Have you also a source about this ?