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Help[Surname] Re: the meaning of the name Hemmig
in reply to a message by Angela
Angela
My understanding is that the name is a middle european derivation likely German. We have family bibles from the early 1700's. All written in German...3 of them showing Berlin as the location of our branch of the family tree.
For some further genealogy information...our family history shows the Reading, PA area as the family's American roots.
The first American references are from a 30 year later time period. Our sources are newspaper clippings and a hand written family genealogy written by my great, great grandfather William A Hemmig - origin late 1860's.
His father - Benjamin W Hemmig was born on 1/25/1806 near Gouglersville, PA; and his son Benjamin F Hemmig (born 11/19/1831) was the local postmaster, general store operator, Justice of the Peace in Cumru, and founder of a cemetery company, he died 4/27/1882.
His son William Albert Hemmig (born 6/24/1858) moved to Toledo, Ohio where his son Charles Hemmig (1886-1956) gave birth to my father Melvin R Hemmig (1906-1973).
All my family references by conversations and folk lore were German, although my grandfather Charlie always said he was "Pennsylvania Dutch"!!
Hope this helps.
Ray Hemmig
My understanding is that the name is a middle european derivation likely German. We have family bibles from the early 1700's. All written in German...3 of them showing Berlin as the location of our branch of the family tree.
For some further genealogy information...our family history shows the Reading, PA area as the family's American roots.
The first American references are from a 30 year later time period. Our sources are newspaper clippings and a hand written family genealogy written by my great, great grandfather William A Hemmig - origin late 1860's.
His father - Benjamin W Hemmig was born on 1/25/1806 near Gouglersville, PA; and his son Benjamin F Hemmig (born 11/19/1831) was the local postmaster, general store operator, Justice of the Peace in Cumru, and founder of a cemetery company, he died 4/27/1882.
His son William Albert Hemmig (born 6/24/1858) moved to Toledo, Ohio where his son Charles Hemmig (1886-1956) gave birth to my father Melvin R Hemmig (1906-1973).
All my family references by conversations and folk lore were German, although my grandfather Charlie always said he was "Pennsylvania Dutch"!!
Hope this helps.
Ray Hemmig
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