Is there any place like "Wertinberge" in Germany? The 1850 census taker did their best for Mary Fox's birthplace, but I can't really decipher it: ![screenshot of birthplace name]( I strongly suspect this is somewhere in Germany, because family lore says Mary Fox and her family came from Germany. However, "Worthinberge" (Ancestry's attempted transcription) doesn't appear to exist, nor "Wertimberge" (my best guess). What was the birthplace for Mary Fox supposed to say?

I read _Woitimberge_ or _Wertimberge_ here. Both are not place names.

I guess the census taker did not understand the place name correctly and spelling the place name might also be influenced from local dialect.

European place names are listed in the GOV (Geschichtliches Orts-Verzeichnis). You can search it using the wildcard character * (but you have to start with a regular letter).

The most likely place seems Württemberg, a historical territory. The only place starting with _W_ and ending _-berge_ that comes to my mind is the city Wittenberge (don’t confuse it with Luther’s Wittenberg). As I learned from the GOV, there is not just the city of Wittenberge (in Brandenburg), but also a much smaller town with the same name (in Lower-Saxony).