Daily AncestorHornung
Hornung is an old German name for February, found in older church books and documents in place of Februar.
Hornung was one of the old German month names that ran alongside the Latin-based ones for centuries. A date written den 9. Hornung 1765 is February 9, 1765.
Hornung is also a German surname, so in a list of names it may be a family rather than a month. In a date, between a day number and a year, it is always February.
As seen in a recordBurial register of a German Lutheran parish, 1770s
Begraben den 22. Hornung 1771, alt 63 Jahr
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