RESEARCH REPORT - Lunghusen

+ 21.06.1835, 7 p.m., buried: 24.06.1835
Marie Gesche Sophie Lünkhusen, nee Jagels
from Sottrum
wife of Johann Friedrich Lünkhusen, Häusling in Fischerhude
32 years, 5 months, 2 days old, died of tuberculosis
Wilstedt burial register (42/1835)
+ 02.07.1835, buried: 05.07.1835
Johann Friedrich Lünkhausen
Häusling at this very place
29 years, 7 months, 14 days old, died of nerves feaver, buried in silence
The parents of Margarethe, Gesche and Heinrich both died when the children were only six,
three and one year old. We know that at least Margarethe and Heinrich survided, which was
not at all normal for very young orphan children in the 1830s and 1840s. It seems as if Gesche
was as well alive and still living in Fischerhude in December 1852 (see the census data in part
VI. of this report).
II. The family of Conrad Lunkhausen
(father of Johann Friedrich, see chapter I.)
Based on the copies of the book “Die alte Höfe von Fischerhude, Anbauer and Handwerker,
Band 2” (the old farms of Fischerhude – vol. 2: Anbauer/smaller farmers and craftsmen),
written by Manfred Wolffson I thought that Conrad Lünghusen and Beke Ahrens should have
been married in Wilstedt (the Fischerhude parish registers only reach back to 1799 6 for
baptisms and burials and to 1853 for marriages, all pre-1853 marriages of Fischerhude
inhabitants were recorded in Fischerhude). But neither the 1802 marriage nor the 1803
baptismal record of the oldest daughter could be found in Wilstedt and Fischerhude
respectively. From the 1835 burial record of Conrad`s wife Beke we could learn that Conrad
and Beke married in Grasberg in November 1802 (they married in October 1802 in fact), the
parish which I already itended to check besed on the residence of the only Lunkhusen
godparents for the Kunkhusen/Jagels children, Hermann Lunkhusen from Rautendorf
(godfather of your ancestor Heinrich Lunkhusen/Lunghusen).
Rautendorf is a moor colonization village located just 4 ½ kilometer northwest of
Fischerhude. Conrad and Beke lived in this village, which had been founded in 1762 until at
least 1803.
Grasberg marriage register (11/1802)
oo 22.10.1802, in the church
Conrad Lunginghausen
6 For the 1799-1852 baptisms and burials we can still find the Fischerhude entries in the parish registers of
Wilstedt after the Fischerhude church was still a filal church of Wilstedt until the mid 1800s. The seperate pre-
1853 baptismal and burial records of Fischerhude were only copied from the Wilstedt records and they are much
less accurate and detailed as the Wilstedt orginals. The today`s church of Fischerhude was buildt in 1841, other
parts and the tower were added during the 1880s. Before 1841 there was an old chapel in Fischerhude which
probably already was buildt during the 1290s. Most of the Fischerhude baptisms, marriages and burials took
place in this chapel although they were recdorded in Wilstedt.
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