Wilking - Werneking

hannover-l
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Werneking or Wilking?

Could these two names be different spellings for
the same family?

I am looking for the parents of Sophie Werneking
(American spelling). She married Hermann Hillmann
from Brebber about 1854 and later records say she
was from Wietzen. The only family name that is
close in the Wietzen censuses is Wilking. Wilking
seems to be the correct one because the Gollner
and Brinkmann families live nextdoor and are also
in my ancestry.

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Joan,
I looked in www.infospace.com international telephone and in the Das Telefonbuch and couldn't find Werneking Brebber or in any large cities in Germany. I found 4 in Texas. So it might be Americanized.

Don

Joan Shrader <joan@greenbackacres.com> wrote:Werneking or Wilking?

Could these two names be different spellings for
the same family?

I am looking for the parents of Sophie Werneking
(American spelling). She married Hermann Hillmann
from Brebber about 1854 and later records say she
was from Wietzen. The only family name that is
close in the Wietzen censuses is Wilking. Wilking
seems to be the correct one because the Gollner
and Brinkmann families live nextdoor and are also
in my ancestry.

3

Joan,
     I don't really know the answer to that, but when you do a search on the
LDS website for each of the names (with the "exact spelling" checked) and no
other information given, you get many people with both names given. I would
not conclude at all that they were the same name.
    I know that some records in Germany (as in a marriage record, for
example) may say that a person is "from" some village (meaning that he/she
lives there now) which may not necessarily mean that the person was "born"
there. That causes confusion, to be sure.
    However, many names are misspelled in census records and church records
and the script can be misleading as well!
Barbara

4

Joan,
    I should have also said that sometimes what you see in a church record
is the town where the person was baptised (the parish), which may be a
nearby town from where they were actually born.
Barbara

5

Hi Barbara,
looking for all your answers and comments in this list
for such a long time, I want to say: THANK YOU!

"That causes" freindship, I�m "sure".

Klaus Vahlbruch

6

Joan,
     Try going to www.gencircles.com and search for Werneking. Is that
your Sophie. If so, she was born in Schlüsselburg, which is not far from
the area you are searching. It shows Kreis Hoya. Or the name of the
village could be something else. I've seen those strange characters happen
in some websites if the umlat is used.
Barbara