The Bergh Family Records

57723T

(Translation from Danish)

14th May 1908.

Mr. Francis R. Bergh
LONDON.

Dear Sir,

In reply to your enquiry in your letter of the 8th inst. I would desire herewith to inform you that a Dutch silk dyer Johan Wilhelm Hartzfeldt settled in Copenhagen in the year 1718, where he seems to have remained until 1725 (see Nyrop: Danish Dyers. Copenhagen 1900, page 35 et seq). Genealogical information regarding him and the posterity he may have left is not available here as the name of Hartzfeldt or Hertzfeld cannot be found in the extract of the Copenhagen Church Registers kept here in the Royal Archives. Should you desire to have closer search made in the original Church Registers in Copenhagen in the archives of the Copenhagen Register Office and pay for this work, even though the result of the search should prove negative, I should suggest that you should apply to the Landsarkivet (Provincial Archive) for Sjaelland etc. (Jagtvej 10, Copenhagen A.) Where the archives in question are kept, by whose aid a person capable of carrying out an investigation of this kind may be engaged to do the work for your account.

The family Hartsfeldt or Hertzfeld does not in any case belong to the Danish nobility.*

Yours faithfully,
(Signature)

* No the point is who did J.W.H. marry. - F.R.B.

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