Heimberger History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Early Origins of the Heimberger family

The surname Heimberger was first found in Prussia, where the name emerged in medieval times as one of the notable families of the region. From the 13th century the surname was identified with the great social and economic evolution which made this territory a landmark contributor to the development of the nation. The area was notable for the influence of the Teutonic Knights.

Early History of the Heimberger family

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Heimberger Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Heimburh, Hiemburg, Heimbaugh, Heimbach and others.

Early Notables of the Heimberger family

Notable figures of the time with the name Heimberger were Wolfgang Heimbach (1615-1678), a North German Baroque painter who was mostly active in Denmark. Heimbach was from Oldenburg and studied in Germany and the Low...
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Heimberger migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Heimberger Settlers in United States in the 18th Century

Anna Maria Heimberger, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1751 [1]
Georg Thomas Heimberger, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1751 [1]

Heimberger Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Gustavus Heimberger, who arrived in St Clair County, Illinois in 1838 [1]
William Heimberger, who landed in St Clair County, Illinois in 1853 [1]

Contemporary Notables of the name Heimberger (post 1700) +

Edward Laurence Heimberger (1951-2006), known professionally as Edward Albert, an American film Golden Globe Award winning television actor, son of Eddie Albert; he died from lung cancer a year after his father
Michelle Heimberger, American early employee of Yahoo! from Cleveland who bought Franklin Castle, a reputed haunted Victorian stone house, built in the American Queen Anne style, in Cleveland
Edward Albert Heimberger (1908-2005), birth name of Eddie Albert, American Academy Award nominated actor, best remembered as Oliver Wendell Douglas in the 1960s television situation comedy Green Acres and as the traveling salesman Ali Hakim in the musical Oklahoma!
Victor Heimberger, American Republican politician, Candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 6th District, 1880 [2]

Citations +

Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, October 26) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html