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Birth:
He was born in the small town Leeste near Syke in Lower Saxony in Germany on the 23rd of September 1822. His parents were Johann Heinrich and Margarete Hollwedel. (E1)
Leeste is now part of the town Weyhe.
Childhood:
He grew up in Leeste. His father was a cottager. (E1)
Work:
He was a bricklayer. (E2, B1, B2)
In Leeste he was a cottager (German: Häusler). (E1)
He could not read nor write. He signed the civil birth record of his second last child with three crosses. (B2)
Marriage:
He married the single Beke Bode, who was also from Leeste, on the 28th of December 1851 in the Lutheran church in Leeste. (E1)
According to the censuses in 1848 and 1852, Johann Heinrich Hollwedel moved into house No. 91 (Brandkataster Nr.) in Leeste between 1848 and 1852. During the census in 1852 the house was divided and used by two cottager families. Johann Heinrich Hollwedel sen., Johann Heinrich Hollwedel jun., his wife, his unmarried brothers Hinrich and Dietrich, and the Knief family (Dietrich Knief, his wife Margarethe, his daughter Margarethe and his mother Margarethe) shared it then. (E2)
During the 1855 and 1858 censuses he and his family lived with his father-in-law in house No. 102 in Leeste (Brandkataster Nr. 125). (E2)
During the 1861 census the family were sharing a farmer's (German: Brinksitzer) house in the nearby village Angelse. The house belonged to farm No. 3 (Brandkataster Nr.) in Angelse. (E2)
Until 1870 Johann Heinrich Hollwedel and his wife raised their family in Leeste. (E1)
Then they moved to Bremen. In 1871 and 1872 they lived at 499 Buntentorsteinweg. In 1873 and 1874 they lived at 8 Hoffmann Straße. Then they moved to 52 Lehnstedter Straße. Sometime after 1876 they moved to a flat at 18 Neander Straße. (B1, B2)
Death:
He died at 9 a.m. on the 25th of July 1887 in his home at 18 Neander Straße in Bremen. He was 64 years old. He was a widower. (B1)
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