Deciphering help please.

[John-Nihon]

Could anyone help me to read what the marked text says please.

MR-WGT-DEWS.jpg

[Phoenix]

Possibly Hornung for the name.
Possibly Wuppertall for the second place?

Not very good at Prussian names!

[KiteRunner]

There is a possible Christopher HOLLING on the 1881 - age a little bit out, wife is Sophia but she is younger than him instead of older, both are born Germany but he is a labourer. And they are in Yorkshire.
RG11; Piece: 4441; Folio: 68; Page: 9

In 1901 there is a Christopher HORNING in Staffordshire whose family matches the 1881 family - and he is a butcher. Oh, and your Mary is still with them too.

So his surname is something like Holling or Horning. If you look up the birth registrations for his children maybe you will get a better idea of what their surname was! Sorry but I must go shopping now. This is the ref for 1901:
RG13; Piece: 2600; Folio: 126; Page: 20

[KiteRunner]

Oops, sorry, didn't see you wanted the birthplaces too - they were off the edge of my screen!

[John-Nihon]

Hi Phoenix
Thanks for trying. I'm no good with funny names either.

Hi KiteRunner
That looks promising, thank you. I shall pop off and have a look.

[Phoenix]

Freebmd shows births of Fred and Henry Hornung in Bradford rd and death of Fred.

There is also the death of a Sophia Hornung aged 64 in 1912.

[John-Nihon]

That's great! Thank you very much Phoenix :D

[Lyn A]

Christopher's BP looks like Kemzelaan.
I can't make out Sophia's...sorry.

[John-Nihon]

Hi Lyn

It could be. Trouble is I have a hard time finding these strange names. Off to do a bit of googling now to see what turns up.

Thank you.

[Cloggie]

Hi John,

You could try looking for the German place names here: Directory of Cities and Towns in World

I've been looking but haven't found anything that looks quite right yet, although there are lots of similar looking place names, such as:
Kenzendorf
Konstanzer
Konzenberg
Konzendorf
Rinzenberg

[John-Nihon]

Hi Sarah

Thanks for all those, I will add them to my growing list of possibilities - LOL ! :D

With part of my research heading more and more into Germany I will have to try and find myself a nice German friend. ;):D

[Christine in Herts]

I thought the surname looked like HORNUNG

And I thought the second place name looked like KUPFERSELL (not so sure about the ending) - Kupfer = Copper, so it would be within range of copper-bearing land, I'd have thought.

Now I'll go back and have another look.

Christine

[Christine in Herts]

There's a place called Kupferzell to the East of Heilbronn.

The other place-name looks as if it begins KORN...

Christine

[WendyP]

HI

I found this on the Wuttemberg Germany Emmigration Index

Christoph Hornung

born 20 Jan 1849

Birth Place Kuenzelsau

District: Kuenzelsau

Application Date Dec 1867

Destination England

Number 835762


Not sure if it's him though

[Christine in Herts]

Kuenzelsau is just to the North of Kupferzell...

Chrisitne

[Christine in Herts]

And if you look on the National Archives global search (JavaScript Support Check

Piece details HO 144/133/A34817

Record Summary
Scope and content
Nationality and Naturalisation: Hornung, Christopher, from Germany. Resident in Dewsbury. Certificate A4131 issued 23 June 1884.
Covering dates 1884
Availability Open Document, Open Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years
Former reference (Department) A34817
Held by
The National Archives, Kew

Christine

[John-Nihon]

Hi Christine & Wendy

Sorry I didn't reply earlier, I've been away for a few days.

Thank you ever so much for the very interesting information I shall go and investigate some more now.