Anne Margarethe nee Volkening Bleeke

On 22 February 1793 Christian Fridrich Bleeke married Anne Margarthe Volkenina. Three of their sons would later emigrate from Schaumburg-Lippe and settile in Adams county.

Who was the Anne Margarthe Volkening that married Christian Fridrich Bleeke on 24 May 1770 in the Frille church? There were several Anne Margareth Volkenings in the Frille parish. Which one married Christian Bleeke?

As explained below, the mostly likely candidate was born 24 May 1770, in Leteln.

Introduction

On 22 February 1793 Anne Margarethe Volkening Volkening married Christian Fridrich, the father of Carl Fridrich and Johann Heinrich Philip Bleeke. Since there are five Anne Marg.'s listed in the birth index of the Frille "Verzeichnis der Getaufte, Getraute und Gestorbene, 1758-1804", which is the correct bride of Christian Fridrich Bleeke?

Backgound and Evidence:

The marriage record for Anne Margarethe Volkening and Christian Fridrich Bleeke shows they married on 22 February 1793. It states that the bride was

aus Leteln (from Leteln)

We also know the birth of their first son, Carl Fridrich, occurred the following year, in 1794, and their next child, Johann Heinrich Philip, was born in 1797. Links to their birth records are below:

Carl Fridrich Bleeke baptized on 2^nd November 1794, likely born 30^th October
Johann Heinrich Philipp Bleeke baptized on 5^td November 1779, likely born 3^rd November

As adults these sons were the first of the Bleeke children to emigrate to the U.S. In December 1840, while residing in Hamiliton county, Ohio, each was awarded land patents by the U.S. Land Office in Fort Wayne to tracts of land in Union township, Adams, Indiana. Their younger brother Christian Fridrich Bleeke, born 25 December 1800, would also immigrate to Adams county, Indiana.

Kirchspiel defined

Kirchspiel is the term that describes the Ortschaften, the surrounding villages, that belong to a particular nearby parish (Gemeinde).

Five Prospective Candidates

Approximately 70 Volkening births are listed in the birth index, and of these, three girls have "Anne (Anna) and the abbreviation of Marg.* as given names. Two have the adjacent pair of given names: "Anne Marg.":

Figure 1. "Prospective Anne Margarethers (Click to englarge)

The Three "Anne" and "Marg" Considered

The three girls, the oldest of the five candidates, in the table below have Anne and Marg as given names — but Marg. does not immediately follow Anne:

Three Candidates: **Anne** and **Marg.** in Given Names
Nane	Birth Date
Anne Cathrina Ilse Marg. Volkening	7 February 1762
Anne Engel Marg. Volkening	9 September 1764
Anne Cathrina Ilse Marg. Volkening	7 November 1764

We now examine the birth records of each.

Anna Catherina Ilse Marg. Volkening, "the elder", Birth Record

Citation: The image below is of the birth record for Anna Cathrina Ilse Margreta Volkening. It is appears on image 16, page 26 (of births), entry 6.

Figure 2. Anne Catherine Ilse Marg. Volkening (Click to enlarge)

Transliteration and Translation, image 16, page 26 (of births), entry 6

     getaufte 1762 [shown above entry 1 at top of page]

6) d 7ten Febr: Anna Cathrina Ilse Margreta Volkenings
     aus Päpinghausen P. Tönnies Volkening M. Ilse
     Margreta Röseners S. Anna Cathrina [uncertain], Anna
     Cathrine Elisabeth Röseners u. Anna Chrisina Röseners

6) On 7th Feb: Anna Cathrina Ilse Margreta Volkenings
     from Päpinghausen. Father Tönnies Volkening. Mother Ilse
     Margreta Rösener. Sponsoers. Anna Cathrina Loysa Lang[en?], Anna
     Cathrine Elisabeth Röseners u. Anna Chrisina Röseners

Anne Engel Margret Volkening Birth Record

Citation: The image below of the birth record for Anna Engel Margreta Volkening is of image 23, page 41, entry 47.

Figure 3. Anne Catherine Ilse Margareta Volkening (Click to enlarge)

Transliteration and Translation, image 23, page 41 (of births), entry 47

      1764 getaufte [the year appears on image 21, in the lower middle of the right hand page.
                     part of the page]

47) den 9 Sept: Anna Engel Margreta Volkening vor den
    Wald auf Ro[???]hofe P. Johan Christian Volkening. M. Charlotte
    Philippina Dörmans S. Tield Bitterwegs [uxohe?]

47) On Sep 9th: Anna Engel Margreta Volkening in front of the
    forest on Ro[???]hofe [Hof=farm, plural: Höfe] Father: Johan Christian Volkening. Mother: Charlotte
    Philippina Dörmans. Sponsors: Tield Bitterwegs [uxohe?]

Anne Catherina Ilse Marg. Volkening, "the younger", Birth Record

Citation: The image below is the birth record for Anna Engel Margreta Volkening that appears on image 24, page 43, entry 61.

Figure 4. Anne Catherine Ilse Margareta Volkening (Click to enlarge)

Comments on + sign

The + sign denotes a death and its associated date, here the year 1767.

Transliteration and Translation of image 24, page 43, entry 61

      1764 getaufte [the year appears on image 24, page 43, entry 61, in the middle of the lower
                     part of the page]

61) den 7ten Nov: Anna Cathrina Ilse Margreta Volkenings
+      aus [uncertain; looks like: Erthof] Father Jost Heinrich Volkening M. Anna
1767.   Cathrina [Rösener/Röhrners] S. 1) Anna Cathrine Margreta
       Volkenings 2) Ann Sophia Elisabeth Volkenings

61) On the 7th Nov: Anna Cathrina Ilse Margreta Volkening
died   from [Erthel?] Father: Jost Heinrich Volkening Mother: Anna
1767   Cathrina [Rösener/Röhrners] Sponsors: 1) Anna Cathrine Margreta
       Volkenings 2) Ann Sophia Elisabeth Volkenings

Summary of Above Findings

We note that Anne Catherine Ilse Margret Volkening, born 7 November 1764, tragically died in 1767. None of the other two baby girls was born aus Leteln, (from Leteln).

Final Two Anne Marg.'s

The two remaining "Volkening Anne Marg." candidates are

"Volkening Anne Margarethe Volkening", whose birth is recorded on page 77, entry 39, and
Anna Margarethe Elisabeth Volkening, whose birth is recorded on page 93, entry 14.

We now examine their respective birth records.

Anna Margarethe Volkening

Citation: The image below of the birth record for Anna Margreta Volkening is from image 41, page 77, entry 39.

Figure 5. Anne Margarethe Volkening, image 41, page 77 (Click to enlarg)

Transliteration and Translation, image 41, page 77 (of births), entry 39

     getaufte 1770 [shown on image 39, bottom center of page 73]

39) Eodem Anna Margartha Volckenings s[abbreviation for aus] Leteln. P. Jobst
Pr. Henrich Vockening. M. Anna Cath. Röseners. S. Anna
    Margaretha Volckenings.

39) On the as day[as entry above], of 24th May, Anna Margartha Volckening from Leteln was baptized
Pr.[meaning of "Pr." yet uncertain] Father: Jobst Henrich Vockening.
    Mother: Anna Cath. Rösener
    Sponsors: Anna Margaretha Volckening.

Anna Margarthe Elisabeth Volkening

Citation: The image below of the birth record for Anna Margarthe Elisabeth Volkening is from image 50, page 93, entry 14.

Figure 6. Anne Margarethe Elisabeth Volkening, image 50, page 93 (Click to enlarg)

Latin word uxores

The latin word uxores appears in this birth record. It is defined as:

uxor means wife
uxores means wives

Transliteration and Translation, image 50, page 93 (of births), entry 14

     getaufte 1773 [as shown at top of page 92]

14) d. 7ten Mart. Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Volke
Pr.     nings aus Aminghausen. P. Christian Fried. Volkening.
       M. Anna Margartha Hahnen. S. Joh. Hinrich Volke
       nings und Hinrich [J?]ebbens uxores.

14) On 7th March Anna Margaretha Elisabeth Volkening from Aminghausen was baptized.
Pr.[meaning yet uncertain]   Father: Christian Friedrich. Volkening.
       Mother: Anna Margartha Hahn[en suffix].
       Sponsors: The wives (uxores = wives) of Johann Hinrich Volkening and Hinrich Jebben.

Summary of Final Two Anne Marg.'s

Only one of the two Anne Marg. Volkenings was from Leteln (aus Leteln).

Summary of All Findings

None of the first three candidates were born in Leteln. Two of these were names Anne tragically died about age three. Of the two remaining and youngest candidates, only Anne Margarethe Volkening, age 22, was from Leteln** as the marriage record marriage record states for the bride’s place of residence.

This table summarized the findings:

Summary of Relevant Findings
Pg. #	Name	Birth Date	Birth Place	Age at Marriage	Father	Mother	Comments
26	Anna Cathrina Ilse Margreta Volkenings	7 Feb 1762	Päpinghausen	31	Tönnies Volkening	Ilse Margreta Röseners	married Carl Friederich Bals.
41	Anna Engel Margreta Volkening	9 Sept 1764	before the forest on R[???]hofe	28	Johan Christian Volkening	Charlotte Philippina Dörmans	Anne Engel Margarethe Volkeing aus Cammer married on 12 Jan 1787 Antton Frid. [R/B]ö[s/h/?]
43	Anna Catherina Ilse Margret Volkening	7 Nov 1764	Erthel?	28	Jost Heinrich Volkening	Anna Cathrein Rösener	died in 1767
77	Anne Margarethe Volkening	24 May 1770	Leteln	22	Jobst Heinrich Volkening	Anna Cath. Rösener	born in Leteln
93	Anne Margareth Elisabeth Volkening	7 March 1773	Aminghausen	19 (nearly 20)	Christian Fried. Volckening	Anne Margarethe Hahn[en suffix]	not born in Leteln

More Recent, Conclusive Findings

By examining the marriage entries (since there is no marriage index) in the range of probable marriage date for both Cathrine Ilse Margarethe Volkening aus Papinghausen and Cathrine Engel Margreta Volkening, these marriage were found:

The marriage of Anna Catherine Ilse Margaretha Volkening aus Papinghausen (from Papainghausen) to Christian Fridrich Bals aus Frille (from Frille), on 21 September 1788, is on image 198, page 44 of the marriage pages, entry 4:

The marriage of Anne Engel Marg. Volkening to Anthon Fridrich Bö[sc/h/uncertain], on 21 January 1787, is found on image 197, page 43, entry 1>, is found on <<image197, image 197, page 43, entry 1.

In 1794, the same year as the birth of Carl Fridrich Bleeke (son of Christian Friedrich and Anne Margaretha Volkening) a child was born to Anne Cath. Ilse Marg. Volkening and Carl Friederich Bals. This birth is found on image 121, page 225 of the births, entry 1:

Figure 7. Birth in 1794 of a son of Anna Cath. Ilse. Marg. nee Volkening Bals (Click to englarge)

We presently don’t know the birth date of Christian Fridrich Bleeke. No Christian Fridrich Bleeke birth is listed in the birth index for the years 1758 to 1804. Thus, either he was much older around age 35 (or older) and his birth is recorded in the prior volume (which unfortunately has no indexes, requiring page-by-page examination), or his birth was recorded in a different church’s Kirchbuch.

If he was much older around age 35 or older, then we are forced to consider whether he might have married an older yet-undiscovered Anne Margarethe whose birth is listed in the 1664-1757 Frille Kirchbuch. We have seen that of the first three candidates, one tragically died aournd age three, the other two were not born in Leteln, and we have marriages for both (although the place of birth and residenece at time of marriage differ for Anna Engel Margarethe Volkening).

It is, though, more likely than not that Anne Margarethe Volkening, born 24 May 1770, is the correct bride. A certain conclusion depends on knowing more about the groom’s age But the wife of Christian Fridrich Bleeke was 22, which we take as the most likely age for a first marriage of the that time period.

We wish we hard, reliable, documented sources for individuals in Jürgen’s Bleeke Family Tree but we this analysis shows Anne Margerethe Volkening born is the prefered bride of Christian Fridrich Bleeke.

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