connect women in the earlier centuries of genealogical research only rarely, or if, then right at unimpressive. In the 16th and 17 Century are even mentioned in the church records the mothers and women barely. The man can baptize and is registered with name and date. The wife and mother appears, if anything, only stating the first name. It was not until the 18th Century is generally due to enter into the baptismal, the mother's full name. Even among the often numerous registered godparents, women usually hide behind the name of the husband (eg Peter Müller uxor, Peter Müller or just miller). It is often difficult if not impossible, the female Lines trace back further, since often the marriage register of the early years have been lost.
If connect as women as individuals in the early genealogy in appearance, it is ever to be seen as something special. Benefiting from property and assets, by status and reputation of the husband or the family of origin, women can also occur confidently and independently within the framework of what was usual in the respective period.
My first earliest documented examples of female proportion of (family) history is the widow of cannon and bell founder Henry of Schwichell . Henry worked under the last Grand Master of the Prussian Order of the country and the first Duke: Margrave Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach . 1542 Henry took a good 7 hooves in the fertile Pregelniederungen about 20 km east of Koenigsberg in possession. 1549 Henry's widow must Margareta write to the Duke because of the Duke administration officials disregarded the legal rights of that property:
>>... will so me nuhmals EFG (shorthand for: reverend Highness) Hauptman Waldaw to force scraping plant and dryngen which I formals befreyet Bynner and yet, like the prescription indicates clar auff I am thu Drawing. Dar also merciful Lord to and fro, my Ehlich you and I had a see. Dar Inne notturfft Before gefisschet to our tables. So we also of Jar ously, four Bismarck must Zynsen. The sameness of the Hauptman entzocht fisscherey us too. This I Leyde because with the notable meynigen nachteyll to Meyner narung. Wherefore merciful prince and Her request I wolter poor abandoned Witbfrau EFG EFG me with humility Gantzer poor women and the Meynell erscheynen Sun merciful and befelen of the Hauptman Waldaw and merciful dahyn Weysen that I will get poor Megen Witbfrau with the Meynell over and above our befreyhung be urged to Keynes factory scraping against equitable. Since, in addition also the bey fysscherey we always her up, the umb Ously had Zinsser, auff EFG bleyben Bevelle and get Mogen be . <<
If you are familiar with the contemporary style of letters between subject and ruler, these lines seem unusually direct. Margaret is frankly to the point and makes clear what they want to achieve. She does not forget to mention that it is entitled in the form of written documents on their side. The courtesy and subordination phrases represent only the minimum of what is usual in time.
The stewards found in the counties work so to speak for yourself and try as much as possible in taxes and services . Herauszuwirtschaften However, they too are bound by the applicable laws. But, probably thought the Waldauer bailiff, with a widow, you can give it a try. Margareta white face to the effective and self conscious.
The origin and the family that Margareta remains in the dark. 1515 Henry travels from Schwichell to Kampen in Holland to fetch his wife from there to Prussia, since he was Grand Master in the Prussian service taken for life. Whether that Margaret was, or whether Henry married several times, can not be conclusively proved from existing sources. Church records do not exist at that time in Prussia. Kampen was the hometown of Geert van Wou (1450-1527), the most famous bell-founder of his time. Most likely, Henry, before his time in the Baltic States and Prussia worked there and met in this way in Kampen his wife. Perhaps Margaret was a relative of Geert van Wou ...? This question will probably remain a family secret. In Gemeentearchief in Kampen settled out of time and with this reference to find any more documents.
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