RESEARCH REPORT - Lunghusen

Just three months after Heinrich Lunghusen`s parents died his paternal grandmother died as
well. The 54 years old Conrad had to take care for his three young grandchildren and we can
assume that they either grew up in the Mindermann/Lünkhusen family (see above) or in the
farm of Johann Hinrich Lünkhusen, on the Lünkhusen farm in Fischerhude. Jihann Hinrich
married just one month after his mother died (for his family see part VI. below).
Wilstedt burial register (/1852)
+ 16.10.1852, 6 a.m., buried: 20.10.1852
Conrad Lynkhusen
Altenteiler in Fischerhude
73 years, 9 months old, died of weakness, buried in silence
We are lucky, that the age is listed as detailed in this burial record of your Conrad
Lüninghausen, so that we can calculate his baptismal of about January 1779.
III. The family of Bohlke Lüninghausen
(father of Conrad, see chapter II.)
Based on Conrad`s marriage abd burial records it seemed to be for sure that Conrad was born
in Rautendorf as a son of Bohlke Lüninghusen. After Rautendorf had belonged to the parish
of Lilienthal before the Grasberg church was buildt and founded in 1789 Conrad should have
been baptized in Lilienthal. But Conrad`s baptismal record was not listed in the parish records
of Lilienthal! Although there officially was no free choice of church attendence, but fixed,
regulated church districts there might be a small chance that Conrad was baptized in one of
the parishes east of Lilienthal (Wilstedt or Otterstedt). If his baptismal record is not listed in
both parishes, we have to conclude that Conrad´s baptismal record was forgotten by the
Lilienthal record keeper.
Moreover I hoped, that the baptismal record of Conrad might have been recorded in the
handwritten duplicate (“Zweitschriften” 7 ) of the Lilienthal parish records, so I went to our
genealogical society of Bremen (Die MAUS) to check these records for the years 1778-1780.
But in the “Zweitschriften” Conrad´s baptismal record was not listed as well. I tried this,
because the I hoped, that his baptismal record might have been added to the “Zweitschriften”,
correcting the orginal parish registers.
Lilienthal marriage register (p. 19/1767)
oo 24.04.1767
Bohlke Lüninghausen
legitimate son of Johann Lüninghausen in Moorhausen
with Becke [K]eits
legitimate daughter of Hermann [K]eits from Heydtbergen
7 These so called “Zweitschriften” had to be recorded and handed over to the county (Amt) administration by all
parishes in the region north and northwest of Bremen from 1715 on. Usually the data of the orginal parish
registers and the data in the “Zweitschriften” are more than 99 % identical. But is some cases faults were
corrected or entried were added, which had been forgotten. These “Zweitschriften” have a lot of serious gaps
before 1765 (no such records exist at all for 1727-1745, 1747-1750, 1753-1758 and 1764).
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