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Sue--I appreciate your information concerning my Breburda ancestors. Did not know there was a river in Romania called Burda. There is a small mountain range in Slovakia called Burda also, and a member of the family with whom I have been in contact seems to think they came from there,that the name means "from Burda." But then another family member says that cannot be true, that the name is a thousand year old Czech word for "full beard." They can't both the correct, and I have seen several more meanings for "Burda," as well, including Polish Jewish for "troublemaker." I don't think anyone in the Breburda family truly knows what the name means. As for Romania, I have heard of a Jewish commune called "Breb" or "Brebu," and once theorized that the Breburdas could have taken their name from this place.."Burdas from Brebu." They could just as easily have been "Brea de Burdas," as you mentioned, from Spain (there is a Spanish word, "burdo/a), and Sephardic Jews who somehow made their way to Bohemia. Another contact has told me one of his ancestors was from Bohemia via Spain. All or most of the Breburdas listed on the Internet seem to have come from one just family, a family which at some point during the early part of the 19th century who either took the name or altered it from something else, which is my reason for believing that they may have been Jewish. In 1820, apparently, they were Christian. But there was a certain Martin Breburda who would have been born about 1800 or perhaps a few years before that for whom there is no birth data, date or place of birth, so far as I know. He may have been born in Bohemia but then it could just as well have been somewhere else. I surely wish I could find out more about this person--he "could" be the key to my Breburda family mystery, perhaps a Jew who converted and married into a Christian family BEFORE 1820. Hopefully I can come up with more data on him. He may have been my ancestor and seems to have married an Anna Hurich--their son Josef was born in 1820, Pischely-Neudorf, which is a little village not far from Prague. Pischely/Pysely is also listed on the Austria/Czech SIG as a Jewish community. Sorry to go into so much detail--and again, thanks!
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