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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carmiol" data-source="post: 3922132" data-attributes="member: 151271">Cornigohl?Sorry I haven’t replied for a few days.  I have found three possibilities on the origin of the Carnigohl family.  1) One is that it is related to the Carmiol family that lived around the same time (where the Kruger widow comes from). Although this seems the most obvious, from the scans I sent Taphrospilus, there isn’t much evidence to sustain this, and looks line just coincidence.2) It is related to the Cornigohl family, from around 1700s in Berlin.  This one I think the most plausible, because that family tree has several Carl Friedrich.  Remember Carmiol senior (don Carmiol) was Christian Friedrich, he had a brother named Carl Christian, Carmiol senior’s father was Johann Friedrich and Carmiol junior was Carl Christian.  Although I’m pretty sure Carl and Friedrich are both common names in Germany at that time, it is plausible as it matches the dates, the location, and Cornigohl is just one letter away from Carnigohl.3) The third theory is that it is related to Karl Carmigohl, who lived around the same time whi apparently was a Czech illustrator around that time.  Here is a link to a Czech encyclopedia (or at least that’s what I got from it with google translate: <a href="https://www.encyklopedieknihy.cz/index.php/Karl_Carmigohl" target="_blank">https://www.encyklopedieknihy.cz/index.php/Karl_Carmigohl</a> (this is in Czech). Now, there is a possibility that Karl Carmigohl IS Carl Friedrich Cornigohl or his father Carl Cornigohl.  It would make sense that Carnigohl is not originally German, as I’ve heard that surnames with that start with “C” instead of “K” are not that common on Germany (please let me know if this is incorrect).I do have a scan that could have some info on Carl Cornigohl, and was wondering if somebody can read it? (I have higher quality scans if needed)</blockquote>

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