'Bornbusch' today
is the official term for the farmland in this area (> History/land+farm)
and is used as such in field mapping and administration of the neighbouring
community of Bruchhausen-Vilsen (formerly part of the 'County of Hoya'). The
street leading to the area is also signposted as 'Bornbusch'. On the base
of the already mentioned document as well as other known circumstancial evidence
(History/ chest+hod) the year of birth of our ancestor 'Berndes vom Bornbusch’
dates back to 1487. In the year 1700 approx. there are 5 male direct descendants
of the family of 'Berndes vom Bornbusch' called Bornbusch (see Family tree
'Urstamm'). The additional second name ‘vom (from) Bornbusch' had gradually
turned into 'Bornbusch'. One of these 5 male descendants, Gerd Hinrich/09-030
(1700 - 1776), registers his 9 children, two of them boys, under the surname Bornebusch. However, Gerds brothers
keep the surname Bornbusch (see Family tree).
Additionally, in 2004 there were traces found via the internet of an emigrated
Bornbusch discovered in several libraries in the USA. It seems this Bornbusch
emigrated from Bremen in 1831 and when registering in the New World his second
name was changed into Bornbush (Stammbaum Bornbush I/12-132). Going back in
time from the current 18th Bornbusch, Bornbush and Bornebusch generation to
the one of 'Berndes vom Bornbusch' not everything could be proved without
a doubt although a lot of detective work was done. Therefore, our family history
still remains incomplete, at least if you look at it from a scientific point
of view. Unfortunately, there´s no access either for an amateur investigator
to the former inventories of the public record office, mainly of Hannover.
Moreover, the documents which Hermann Bornbusch (15-261) managed to collect
from those archives - as mentioned in 'Family tree > Legend > page 2'
- can or rather are not permitted to be used.
