When Johann Jacob Hornberger was born about 1697, in Nohfelden, Birkenfeld, Oldenburg, his father, Johann Nickel Hornberger, was 43 and his mother, Maria Katharina Barbara Bungert, was 40. He married Anna Engel Schuch on 7 February 1719, in Bavaria, Germany. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters.
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German: habitational name for someone from Hornberg, a common placename composed of Old High German horn ‘horn’ + berg ‘mountain, hill’.
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