Hermann Friedrich DÖRRIEN & his wife, Agneta WOLTERS

Hermann Friedrich DÖRRIEN & his wife, Agneta WOLTERS 5
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William Knapp and William Baldwin, published in London, 1824. But –
given the fact that both Herman Friedrich Dorrien and Georg Stein were both
certified to have taken the sacrament on Christmas Day, 1693 together at the
German Lutheran Church in Trinity Lane, London 47 (also referred to above)
– it is reasonable to suppose that this Georg Stein was one and the same as
the partner in business, Mr. Stein.
That both Mr. Dorrien and Mr. Stein took the sacrament at the German
Lutheran Church on Christmas Day, 1693 is recorded in The Manuscripts of
the House of Lords (as found in snippet views on a Google Books search) 48
The same Google search shows it was also reprinted in a publication of the
Huguenot Society of London. And a similar search on the National Archives
site will show it in a much more accessible format. 49
Cosserat's Naturalisation Act HL/PO/JO/10/1/469/871 9 Jan 1694
―Amended Draft of an Act for naturalising of Bernard Cosserat, als Mourté,
and Alexander Ringli and others. Identical with Act, except that the names
contained in the separate schedules on the Roll were added by the
Commons (see Annex f) below.)
...
f) 11 Feb -- Certificates that the persons added to the Bill by the Commons
had taken the Sacrament, the first five in the true Protestant High German
Lutheran late Parish Church, Trinity the Less, London, signed by John
Esdras Edzard, the Minister, and Theodore Jacobsen and David Becceler,
the Trustees of the said church; ...
f1) Herman Frederick Dorryen, on Christmas Day. Dated 1 Jan Attested
Henry Ulcken, Peter Willoke.
f2) Georg Stein, on Christmas Day. Dated and attested as preceding.
....‖
[These documents are held at Parliamentary Archives]
Or was his surname actually „Stehn‟? Although all of these sources (referred
to above) show his name as „Stein‟, the same Huguenot Society publication
has – on the very same page – the following:
8 FREDERICK HERMAN DORRIEN, born at Hildersheim in Germany, son of John
Christian Dorrien and Anna Margreta, his wife.
8 GEORGE STEHN, born at Lubeck in Germany, son of George Stehn and Margreta,
his wife. 50
While we know this journal must be mistaken in identifying Frederick
Herman (sic) Dorrien‟s mother as „Anna Margreta,‟ who was actually his
father‟s first wife, rather than the correct second wife, Ilse Margreta (to use
their same spelling for her second name) – the identification of „George
Stehn‟, rather than „Georg Stein‟, does lead to a number of other sources with
this gentleman‟s name so written – particularly:
... Indenture bearing date the fifth Day of September 1729 and made between
the said Jacob Jacobsen by the name of Sir Jacob Jacobsen, Knight, Clement
Boehm and Henry Sperling of London, Merchants, Herman Frederick
Dorrien of Hamburgh, Merchant, Joban Henrick Boock and George Stehn
of London, Merchants, of the one part, and Martin Ludolph of London,
Merchant, of the other part ... reciting that the said (folgen die Trustees von 1702)
were all dead and that the said Sir Jacob Jacobsen, Henry Sperling and George
Stehn had declined acting in the said trust. .... 51
Here it is interesting – and perhaps not a little curious – that in 1729 Herman
Frederick Dorrien is given as being “of Hamburgh;” while his still or onetime
partner, George Stehn (aka Georg Stein) is given as being “of London.”
It is true that Mr. Dorrien did maintain entitlement to a house in Hamburg –
as he so states in his will, written in 1732. 52 But he tells us there that it was
then occupied by his son-in-law, Charles Halsey, who was married to his
eldest surviving daughter, Agatha. In fact they were married in Hamburg on
the 16th of January 1727. And most of their children appear to have been
born there. But it is far from apparent that Mr. Frederick Dorrien ever went
back to live in Hamburg himself – although he almost certainly continued to
conduct his trading business between there and London. As well as
elsewhere:
1707, ...
[Oct. 31.] 1172. Messrs. Stehn and Dorrien, of London, Merchants, to the
Queen. On behalf of the owners and freighters of a neutral ship, the
Betty galley of Stade, pray for a passport for said ship to trade with
the Spanish West Indies. Signed, Stehn and Dorrien. Annexed,
1172. i. HM refers this petition to the Council of Trade and
Plantations for their opinion. Oct. 31, Whitehall.
Signed, Sunderland. [CO. 389, 19. p. 175.] 53
This clearly shows that Messrs. Stehn and Dorrien were still in business
together in 1707. Whether or not they were still residing in the same house as
in 1701, I do not know. Going back to the published reports on the murder of
Peter Wolters in his bedchamber at the house of Messrs. Stein and Dorrien,
none of them mentions the address of said house. But as the murder took
by Robin Cary Askew
– updated September 2011 –