RESEARCH REPORT - Lunghusen

sprachforschung 1878 s. 47; am nächsten wol zusammenhängend mit ags. hleónað wohnstätte, dach
und fach (ic me ânum her eáðe getimbre hûs and hleónað Guthlac 223), so dasz im worte die
anhänglichkeit des vogels an das haus hervorgehoben würde, die ihm auch den namen hausspar,
haussperling (theil 4 2 , 690) gegeben hat.
The family name Lüning (and Löning, Lüling) still exists in Germany, I found 844 references
in the German National Telefone Register, almost all in North(west) Germany. This name was
both used as a name for a bird trader and (more common) for a small, lean or brisk person
(Fink = finch was used in the same way). Lüninghausen would be the settlement founded by a
certain Lüning.
I started your Lunghusen/Lünkhusen/Lüninghusen/Lüninghausen family research with a
lookup of the online “Ortsfamilienbücher 2 ” (OFB) Teufelsmoor and Grasberg. The online
Ortsfamilienbuch of the Teufelsmoor is not complete, but I found at lot of
Lüninghausen/Lüninghusen data in this OFB (http://www.ortsfamilienbuecher.de/).
I checked the orginal parish records for all your direct ancestors I found in the online OFB
Teufelsmoor and Grasberg. The OFB data was very helpful, so I that found much more than
usual.
I. The family of Johann Friedrich Lunkhusen
Father of Heinrich Lunkhusen, Johann Friedrich was married with Marie Gesche
Sophie Jagels
II. The family of Conrad Lunkhusen
Father of Johann Friedrich, Conrad was married with Beke Ahrens
III. The family of Bohlke Lüninghausen
Father of Conrad, Bohlke was married with Becke Keits or Kück
IV. The family of Johann Lüninghausen
Father of Bohlke, Johann was married with Catharine Meyerdierks
V. The family of Bohlke Lüninghausen
Father of Johann, Bohlke was married with Alcke Gefken
VI. The family of Johann Hinrich Lunkhusen
Brother of Johann Friedrich (see chapter I), inherited the farm in Fischerhude.
Johann Hinrich was married first with Gretje Schröder and later on with Anna
Katharina Schröder
VII. The family of Hermann Lüninghausen
Brother of Conrad (see chapter II.), Hermann was married with Rebekka Catharina
Meyer
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Ortsfamilienbuch (OFB) bzw. Ortssippenbuch (OSB):
OFBs or OSBs are a kind of family register for an individual parish. They are based on the parish registers and list all the
members of a family with their birth, marriage and death dates if these are to be found in the original parish registers. Most of
the OFBs cover the period from the beginning of the parish registers until 1900. Some data of the original parish registers,
like godparents or remarks of any kind, often is not included in the OFBs but nevertheless they are a good reliable source that
is rather easily accessible. They are organized family by family in alphabetical order and include links when there is a clear,
known connection. Work on the compilation of the OFBs is still in progress. It is done voluntarily by interested people. Some
German genealogical societies have set up rules for the compilation of OFBs and publish them in a series.
The OFBs are very important and help us to find genealogical data much easier and quicker. Normally it would take days and
days of research to gather the same amount of information directly from the parish registers. But the OFBs are compiled data
collections for thousands of families, they are no primary sources. This means that there might be some minor faults included
and it means that some of the primary records include more information which is not to be found in the OFBs.
The OFB Teufelsmoor is a non-typical one after it is a compilation of data out of more than a dozend of parish registers north
of Bremen like Worpswede, Grasberg and St. Jürgen. The database includes some entries out of the parish registers of
Lilienthal-Trupe, Scharmbeck, Osterholz and Fischerhude and ofter parishes, but it is a growing database which does not
claim to be exhaustive. A lot of families are not included or just listed with a few data and names.
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