There Might Only be One Jobst Heinrich

When Carl Friedrich Gottlieb Krückeberg’s son, Carl Friedrich, was baptized on May 24, 1807, Hans Heinrich Wilharm was one of his baptismal sponsors. Hans Heinrich Wilharm was related by marriage to Carl Friedrich Gottlieb Krückeberg. He was his brother-in-law, more specifically his half brother-in-law.

To understand this, we begin with the March 13, 1803, marriage of Carl Friedrich Gottlieb Krückeberg of no. 10 Berenbusch to Philippine Eleonore Werkmeister of no. 11 Evesen, whose mother was Ilse Maria. Ilse Maria’s name appears as Anna Ilsabey Möller in her 1754 confirmation record. Ilsabey is a regional, phonetic compound form of Elisabeth (Ilsa/Ilse + bey/beÿ), and Ilse and Ilsa are shorten forms derived from its first element.

By examinng the birth records of her children, we find her complete given name was Anna Maria Elisabeth.

When Ilse Marie married Philippine Eleonore’s father, Heinrich Tönnes Werkmeister, on June 11, 1780, it was her second marraige. The marriage record lists her as Maria Ilse Maria née Möller, widow of Bleke. This previous marriage to Johann Bleke, no. 11 Evesen, ccurred on February 18, 1770. The births of their four children shows the family resided at no. 11 Evesen:

On October 10, 1779, Johann Heinrich Bleke age only 34 died of a "bösartige Fieber", a malignant fever. His widow, Anna Ilsabey Möller, married Heinrich Tönnis Werkmeiter the next year.

As mentioned above, Ilse Maria’s second marriage produced a daughter, Philippina Eleonore Werkmeister, who was baptized on May 4, 1783. Twenty years later she married Carl Friedrich Gottlieb Krückeberg on March 13, 1803. From the marriage record we learn she had been living at no. 11 Evesen, and he at no. 10 Berenbusch.

Hans Heinrich Wilharm also married a daughter of Ilse Marie from her first marraige to Johann Heinrich Bleke. On May 8, 1796, he married her first daughter, Anne Marie Philippine Blecke of no. 11 Evesen, who was the half-sister of Philippine Eleonore.

The day after the birth of their first child, on April 10, 1797, she died. And later that same year, on August 27, 1797, Hans Heinrich Wilharm married her younger sister, Sophie Ernestine Blecke, who had been living with her late sister and brother-in-law at no. 11 Evesen. She, too, was the half-sister of Philippine Eleonore nee Werkmeister Krückeberg, making Hans Heinrich Wilharm and Carl Friedrich Gottlieb Krückeberg half brother-in-laws.

Another brother-in-law of Hans Heich Wilharm was Otto Anton Vogt (1785-?) who, on May 10, 1812, married Anna Ilse Margarethe Blecken (1775-1846), the 2^nd child of the lkate Johann Heinrich Blecken (1746-1779). Prior to their marriage, she also had lived at no. 11 in Evesen. He was 27 years old and she was 36. She had a grown daughter who had been born out of wedlock.

Otton Anton Vogt’s background will help decipher the mystery that surrounds Jobst Heinrich Krückeberg and no. 18 Berenbusch.

Carl Friedrich Gottlieb Krückeberg’s wife, Philippine Eleonore Werkmeister, was, according to their March 12, 1803, marriage record, from no. 11 Evesen.

According to nla:146:doc1.adoc, we know that in September 1808 no. 11 Evesen was the home of the Wilharms. We know his complete name to be Hans Heinrich Wilharm because the baptism record of Carl Friedrich Gottlieb’s only son, Carl Friedrich, lists Hans Heinrich Wilharm of no. 11 Evesen as a baptismal sponsor.