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Well, Maureen isn't around, and the suspense is killing me, so Sally -- here's what she found in the International Genealogy Index. (It is an "extracted" record, which means it comes straight from official records and is reliable.)

"Preussen" is Prussia = Germany.


CUNO JULIUS VON GFUG-VOLLERSDORF
Birth: 17 JAN 1862
Christening: 20 JUN 1862 Jerusalem, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen
Father: GUSTAV ADOLPH VON GFUG-VOLLERSDORF
Mother: SOPHIE AMALIE SCHUBERT
Batch No.: C998341


So what do you think about that?

That is your great-great-grandfather, if I've got the number of greats right. Camilla's father.


If you google the name "von gfug", this is one of the search results:


http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/royalty/ahnenreihe/Bernhard.html

European Royalty during World War II:
Genealogical Tables

Bernhard, Prince of the Netherlands (1911-____)
and
Aschwin, Prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1914-____)
...
Great-Great-Grandparents
Caesar Alexander, Count von Wartensleben (1785-1851)
Friederike Wilhelmine von Gfug (1789-1831)

Great-Great-Great-Grandparents
# Johann Friedrich Carl von Gfug (1741-1816)
# Johanne Juliane von Lestwitz (1756-1824)


You actually could come from the same von Gfugs -- and given that it's hardly a common name, I would suppose that you do.

oh my god i have just returned home from a night out, and read this iam in shock. to think we started looking for my father and ended with german royalty its fantastic. they were right all along, why did they end up in wales ? i have had a few drinks and it slowly sinking in. evie tou are great i am amazed at what you can do do you do this for a living ?if not you should. kind regards sally

Nah, but I sure have to know how to use search engines for a living.

Now -- it was Maureen who came up with your stunning von Gfug to start with here, remember!

And -- it was lulabelle who found Camilla in the census -- and then I had to find her at a different site with a different name ;) Cpig indeed ...


I haven't found anything to make the link between yours and those others. There are several von Gfug entries in the International Genealogy Index but there's only one who looks like he might be connected, from the location. Here's the brief rundown of what's there.


Results for: Von Gfug, Germany

1. Elise Adele Helene Von Gfug
Gender: Female
Birth: 24 FEB 1869 Dortmund, Westfalen, Preussen

2. FRANZ EMIL FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON GFUG
Gender: Male
Marriage: 21 FEB 1865 Sankt Felizitas Katholisch, Luedinghausen Stadt, Westfalen, Preussen

3. FRANZ EMIL FRIEDR. WILH. V. GFUG
Gender: Male
Marriage: 14 FEB 1867 Sankt Marien Evangelisch, Dortmund, Westfalen, Preussen

4. FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON GFUG
Gender: Male
Christening: 24 OCT 1869 Sankt Markus, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen ---- same area in Germany

5. FRITZ EMIL LOUIS V. GFUG.
Gender: Male Christening: 18 OCT 1875 Sankt Marien Evangelisch, Dortmund, Westfalen, Preussen

6. JOHANNA VICTORIA VON GFUG
Gender: Female
Christening: 22 NOV 1860 Evangelisch, Sonsbeck, Rheinland, Preussen

7. CARL RUDOLPH ALEXANDER V. GFUG
Gender: Male
Christening: 09 MAY 1872 Sankt Marien Evangelisch, Dortmund, Westfalen, Preussen

8. Catharina von Gfug
Gender: Female
Marriage: 1595 Neudorf, , Schlesien, Preussen

9. Catharina von Gfug
Gender: Female
Birth: Nendorf, , Schlesien, Preussen

10. Catharina von Gfug
Gender: Female
Marriage: 1595 Neudorf, , Schlesien, Preussen

>> 11. CUNO JULIUS VON GFUG-VOLLERSDORF
Gender: Male
Christening: 20 JUN 1862 Jerusalem, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen

12. LUCIE AUGUSTE SOPHIE VON GFUG
Gender: Female
Christening: 05 SEP 1874 Sankt Marien Evangelisch, Dortmund, Westfalen, Preussen

13. LUCIE AUGUSTE SOPHIE VON GFUG
Gender: Female
Christening: 05 SEP 1874 Sankt Marien Evangelisch, Dortmund, Westfalen, Preussen

14. Miss von Gfug
Gender: Female
Birth: About 1445 Of Klein Ellgnith, , Schlesien, Preussen

15. V. GFUG
Gender: Male
Birth: 28 MAR 1873 Sankt Marien Evangelisch, Dortmund, Westfalen, Preussen


I don't really know where you go from here, I have to say!

no nor do i it is stunning though isnt it ? i suppose i may get more answers when i hear from my dad or uncle and i will let you know then . i wiil thank maureen and lulabelle for all their hard work too thanks evie i shall keep all this info and get my soon to be son inlaw to sort out for me, bye for now sally

lulabelle thankyou for helping find the von fgug family it has turned out to be stunning info.

Sally,
I do hope your soon to be son-in-law will in future refer to you as Her Majesty and your daughter as Princess...
(grins)
Maureen

maureen did you think it would be anything like this has turned out to be . i know you were in suspence the olther day. well whod have thought am i the first royal decendant you have had on genes reunited. ? (haha)
sally

Haha indeed.

I myself am descended from the illegitimate offspring of the black sheep youngest son of a Viscount, I'll have you know!

Or so my great-grandfather had everybody know, anyhow. ;)

European royalty, well, they're a dime a dozen, you know.

And I think the closest you get in any case, at least so far, is having some distant ancestors in common with a prince -- *maybe*!

On that score, I have some distant ancestors (although slightly closer, and actually confirmed!) in common with a famous Labour peer about 80 years ago.

So we may be tied. ;)

evie i thought that i would tell you , i had a reply from my dad from the letter i wrote. thankyou so much for all your help . he was in finsbury park and we will soon be reunited again. sally