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14. November 1904.
Dear Mr Berg,
It will interest you to read the enclosed copy of a letter of the Royal heraldic office of Berlin regarding your arms. After having perused the book mentioned in that letter, I applied to the town Rothenburg o.Tur, the major of which has sent me the following notice from a family book called, "Göttlingk'sche Chronik".
Georg Friedrich von Berg born 20. January 1607, son of Michael von Berg, J.U.D. consiliarius was a clever engineer who was busy in the town Hamburg and afterwards in the service of the two dukes Wilhelm and Ernst of Sachen Weimar and Gotha. In the year 1667 von Berg returned again to Rothenburg. No other notices regarding his whereabouts can be found.
Yours sincerely
F. LANDAU.
The letter from the Royal Heraldic Office at Berlin after pointing out that the "nobility of the family of the astromoner and writer Franz Christoph Berg appears doubtful at least and so requires to be proved by documents showing the pedigree", states the Coat of Arms "is the coat of arms illustrated in Siebmacher's Armrial Record Vol.5 page 244 No.1. belonging to a family of Berg which resided in the town of Rotenburg".
A reference to the Continental Record Books shows that there are a great number of families of "Berg" bearing arms most of which however incorporate the chamois and the hill in some shape or other.
The following is a description of the Coat of Arms in question:-
"Berg Rothenburg Baviere.
"De Sable à la bande d'or chargé d'un chamois couvant au naturel soutenu d'une terrasse de simple mouvant du bird inferieur de la bande Cimier - la chamois issant "Lamb D'or et de sa"
This Coat of Arms emanated from Augustus Bergh Senior, but he does not seem to have known much about his Ancestors and therefore although interwting must be taken "cum grane salis".
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