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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><font color="#000000"><div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>
Subject: Genealogy</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Heather, you wrote:<br> </font></div><blockquote style="margin-right:0px" dir="ltr"><div>
<font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Can the Forum help me ( yet) again with the possible origin of a word</font></div><div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> - or rather a name.</font></div>
<div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> In a</font></div><div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> neighbouring village we have records going back to the 13th century of</font></div>
<div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> someone called GUMBERN or GUMBORN He is on one occasion recorded as</font></div><div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> GUMBERNUS PAPA (mid 13th century) and GUNBERNUS LE WILDE</font></div>
<div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> I have even found a reference of GUMBERN WYKING</font></div><div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>
<div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This strikes me as Norse/ Danish rather than Anglo-Saxon. Would you</font></div><div><font color="#741b47" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> agree?</font></div>
</blockquote><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> I found the following </font><a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=lmYjAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=gumbern+names&source=bl&ots=omTf_en44D&sig=2-J38PgqjIPRdpkz9s9hKL5KgJg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0ExjUezbMsK3iwK4vICwAw&sqi=2&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=gumbern%20names&f=false"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">reference</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">:</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><blockquote style="margin-right:0px" dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><strong>Gumborn Farm</strong>, in Grimley, A.S. p. n. <em>Gumbeorn</em> (<em>guma</em>, a man,<em> beorn</em>, a warrior). The name appears in S.A. of 1275 in Hallow and other places, and in 1327 in Warndon as <em>Gumbern</em> and <em>Gumbarn</em>.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div></blockquote><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I hope this helps.</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font> </div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>Seattle, USA</font></div></font></span><blockquote style="margin-right:0px" dir="ltr"><p align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">==============================</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">===========================<br>
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