1819 Philippine Dorothee Krückeberg Death

Family Group and Other Facts

Husband and Wife
Decedent	Surviving Husband	Address	His Occupation	Work Location
Phlippine Dorothee Krückeberg	Johann Heinrich Krückeberg	No. 13 Berenbusch	Former farm foreman at Reinen-Neelhof, now laborer	Reinen-Neelhof estate or farm

Other Facts
Survivors
One married daughter (unnamed)

Meaning of Hofmeister

This is from a German genealogy forum:

A Hofmeister was understood to be a kind of foreman on large farms. Administrators and inspectors represented the management level. The Hofmeister stood somewhere between the management and the normal farm workers;however, he didn’t actually have much to say in technical terms. The Hofmeister was a kind of “primus inter pares” (first among equals) with the farm workers. He was a contact person at management level. The latter couldn’t personally tell every farm worker what to do. The farm foreman was given the rough plan and then assigned the people according to it. No special training was required for this, just character and assertiveness.

This record indicates that the decedant’s husband, Johann Heinrich Krückeberg, was a former Hofmeister (estate foreman) who later—perhaps due to health, age, or other reasons—became an Einlieger (free agricultural laborer).

Citation

The death of Philippine Dorothee Krückeberg in 1819 is found on image 300, on pages 626 ad 627 of Petzen Kirchenbuch: Verzeichnis der Getauften, Konfirmierten, Getrauten und Gestorbenen 1785-1827.

Pages 626 and 627

Header and column headings:

Figure 1. Page 626 Overview (Click to enlarge)

Page 626

Figure 2. Philippine Dorothee Krückeberg (Click to enlarge)

Page 627

Figure 3. Philippine Dorothee Krückeberg (Click to enlarge)

Transliteration and Translation of Pages 626 and 627

Transliteration of Page Header

626   Gestorbene in Kirchspiel Petzen (Deaths in the Petzen Parish)    im Jahre 1818 u. 1819 (in the years 1819 and 1819)          626

verheÿrathet in contemporary German would be verheiratet (married).

Transliteration: entry 1, in year 1819, for Philippine Dorothee Krückeberg
Zahl	Name, Stand, Religion, Gewerbe, Geburts u. bisheriger Wohnort des Gestorbene	Zeit u.[und] Ort des Todes u.[und] des Begräbenises	Ursach[e] des Todes	Alter	Ledig oder verheÿrathet	Hinterbliebende	Bemerkerung
8	Philippine Dorothee Krücke- bergs; Ehefrau des vormaligen Hofmeisters auf dem Reinen= Neelhof Johann Heinrich Krückeberg, Einlieger beÿ 13 in Bärenbusch. Luth. Conf.	starb d. 6ten Januar Nachmittgs 4 Uhr in Bärenbusch, u. wurde begraben d. 9ten Jan. in Petzen	Brustkrankheit	in einem Alter von 54 Jahren	verheÿrathet	hinterläßt außer ihrem Ehemann, eine einzige Tochter, welche verheÿrathet ist	[empty]

The Meaning of the Equal Sign in This Record

In the image, what looks like a hyphen after "Reinen" is an equal sign (albeit an abbreviated one), and the meaning of the equal sign today would a dash. So Reinen=Neelhof is Reinen-Neelhof

Translation: entry 1, in year 1819, for Philippine Dorothee Krückeberg
No.	Name, Status, Religion, Trade, Birth place and previous Residence of the Deceased	Time and Place of Death and of the Funeral[Burial]	Cauase of Death	Age	Single or Married	Survivors	Remark[s]
8	Philippine Dorothee Krücke- bergs; wife of the former estate administrator of the Reinen- Neelhof Johann Heinrich Krückeberg, agricultural laborer at n. 13 in Bärenbusch. Luth. Conf.	died 6th January 4 o’clock in the afternoon in Bärenbusch, and was buried on Jan. 9th in Petzen	pneumonia /consumption	at the age of 54 years	married	besides her husband, is survived by an only daughter, who is married	[empty]

References

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