Friedrich Adolf HOMBERG ^69,70

   Cause of his death was Auszahrung = Tuberculosis.

  General Notes:

Godfather: Fridrich Bering
Godmother: Anna Maria Risse

1814-1835 Occupation: Schmiedemeister = master blacksmith
1843-1849 Occupation: Handelsmann = trader or Ackermann = ploughman

Age at marriage listed as 32 years, that of his wife as 16 years.

An 1827 map of Menden shows "Homberge" to be near Werringsen.

Homberg oral tradition mentions that the family, for many generations, were smiths who owned the smithy on top of the Homberg, Menden, Wesphalia. According to the story, the family business was squandered away by one of the ancestors who turned to drink.

Marriage records of Caspar Homberg list Friedrich's occupation as Ackermann = ploughman, whereas at the marriage of Franz Homberg his occupation is listed as "Schmied auf dem Homberg" (smith on the Homberg). At the marriage of Caspar Heinrich (1854) he is deceased and listed as Friedrich Homberg, Schmiedemeister = master smith of Homberg.

Friedrich Homberg could well be the ancestor who drank away the family business. His older children all had trades, whereas the younger ones were laboures or stablehands, a clear indication in the decline in the family circumstances.



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Friedrich married Anna Maria Elisabetha KEMPER, daughter of Franciscus Casparus Antonius Theodorus KEMPER and Anna Elisabetha HOLMANN, on 1 February 1814 in Sankt Vinzenz R C Church Menden, Kreis Iserlohn Westphalia, Prussia, Germany.⁶⁹ (Anna Maria Elisabetha KEMPER was born on 26 May 1798 in Laer, Menden, Kreis Iserlohn, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany ^69,70 and was christened on 29 May 1798 in Sankt Vinzenz R C Church Menden, Kreis Iserlohn Westphalia, Prussia, Germany ⁷⁰.)