RESEARCH REPORT - Lunghusen

Lilienthal burial register (/p. 1661739)
+ 06.12.1739, buried: 10.12.1739
Alcke Lünighusen
widow of the deceased Bolcke Lünighusen in Mohrhausen
72 years old, buried with sermon
As said above I have checked the parish records for Bolcke Lüninghausen´s burial
death/burial record for the years 1727-1733 (when his daughter Gesche married Dierck
Helmken in 1733, Bolcke is listed as “dceased”), but I couldn´t found his burial record while
this period.
VI. Family of Johann Hinrich Lünkhusen
(brother of Johann Friedrich, see chapter I.)
Wilstedt marriage register (16/1835)
oo 1 05.11.1835, in the church
Johann Hinrich Lunkhusen, * 18.11.1810, Häusling in Fischerhude
legitimate son of Häusling Conrad Lunkhusen Anbauer
with Gretje Schroeder, * 07.03.1811
legitimate daughter of Johann Peter Schroeder, Anbauer in Wilstedt
Johann Hinrich is listed as a “Häusling” in most records, but I think that he was the farmer on
the small Lunkhusen farm from his marriage in 1835 on. The farmland might just been so
limited that he could not live only of farming, but had to earn the living of his family with
other (side or main) jobs as the “Häuslinge”. The 1842 baptismal record below shows us that
he was a wheelwright.
In the 1852 cencus (recorded on December 3, 1852) we can find this family listed at the
address Fischerhude No 79 as follows:
Johann Hinrich Lünkhusen, “Anbauer” (farmer) and whhelwright, 43 years old
Anthriene Lünkhusen, his wife, 33 years old [= Anna Katharina, Johann Hinrich`s 2 nd wife]
Peter Lünghusen, his son, 14 years old
Hermann Lünkhusen, his son, 4 years old
Hinrich Lünkhusen, his son, 2 years old
Re-checking the complete 1852 census list of Fischerhude, I found two more Lünghusens:
Gesche Lünghusen, maid, 21 years old
maid at Fischerhude No. 1, farm of Claus Hinrich Tietjen
Beke Lünkhusen, maid, 17 years old
maid at Fischerhude No. 5, farm of Lütje Winkelmann
There should be no doubt that the 17-year old girl was the oldest daughter of Johann Heinrich
while the 21-year old Gesche should be the sster of your ancestor Heinrich! Heinrich himself
(who was 18 years old) obviously lived and worked somewhere else (it was usual to leave the
household of the parents after the confirmation in order to work on other, bigger farms as a
farmhand or maid until the marriage). It might be possible that we will find him someday
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