RESEARCH REPORT - Lunghusen

1765-1852 Kirchennebenbuch Rep. 83a Lilienthal
I marked the most interesting records with dold script, but also the Schatzregister (tax records)
could be very interesting both for the social/economicalk background and for at least a bit of
genealogical evidence. The Swedish Landmilizrollen 13 (military records) often incoude the
ages of the men and sometimes also the father with their sons. Maybe we can find Otto as
father of Bohlken or Carl as brother of Bohlken and/or other, even earlier Lüninghausens. At
the State Archive Bremen there is an unpublished name index for these “Landmilizrollen” so
that we can check if (and where and when) there were Lüninghausen references.
“Jördebücher” had information about the farms and the farmowners and the “Feuerstellen-
Verzeichnis” (fireplace registers) list at at least all farms and their owners. Most of the listed
records are tax records and they also can be interesting.
When we know some further facts about your Lüninghausen family, we can try to find some
more information in the older records of the State Archive Stade. We can for instance try to
find marriage contracts. In marriage contracts normally the property of the farm and the
dowry was listed, sometimes as well the inheritage share of the brothers and sisters.
Suggestions for further research
LÜNINGHAUSEN
With your Lüninghausen family we reached the begin of the parish records and we only can
add promising parish register research for female lines, like for your Jagels and Otten families
in the parishes of Kirchtimke and Sottrum, the Ahrens family in Wilstedt, the Kück family in
Heidberg, Lilienthal parish and the Meyerdierks family in Lilienthal.
We can as well check Bremen records for Conrad Friedrich Lüninghausen, who married
Gesche Ahlheid Brüggemann in Bremen on 30.10.1768.
Maybe we have a chance to find some living relatives here in Germany, but as already saiud
above the by far best chance to do so is by checking the Sottrum parish registers for
decendents of Margarethe Lunghusen and Johann Cord Schlobohm and the Fischerhude book
for decendents of the daughters of Hermann Lünghusen.
If you have any questions concerning this Research Report or any new goals in your
genealogical research please feel free to ask me.
13 After the 30-Years-War the whole area north and nortwest of Bremen (between the rivers Weser and Elbe)
was occupied by Sweden and part of the Swedish Empire from 1648 to 1712. The Swedes tried their best to
collect a lot of taxes and to get a good data base for the drafting of soldiers. What surely was a problem for the
people of thoses days is a great luck for genealogical research today after we have a lot of detailed records for
the 1650s to 1710.
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