Notizen zu dieser Person
Birth:
He was born at 3 a.m. on the 18th of May 1789 in the village Neu St. Jürgen in the Worpswede parish near Osterholz-Scharmbeck in Lower Saxony in Germany. His parents were Dirk and Anna Grother. (C2)
Childhood:
He grew up on his father's farm in Neu St. Jürgen. (C2)
Work:
He inherited his father's farm.
The farm was farm No. 12 in Neu St. Jürgen. (C9)
Hinrich Grotheer was a farmer (German: Mooranbauer). (C2)
His grandson Hinrich Grotheer, junior, converted the house into an inn about 1880. (C9)
His descendants sold the farm to a man named Hinrich Monsees in 1906. Hinrich Monsees's descendants converted the house back to a farmhouse. In 1970 the old house was pulled down, and a new house erected. The address of the property in 1996 was Dorfstraße 12, Worpswede. Hinrich Monsees's grandson Bernd Monsees sent me four photos of the old and new houses in 1996.
Marriage:
He married the single Ahlheid Busch from the nearby village Hüttenbusch on the 11th of April 1806 in the Lutheran church in Worpswede. (C2)
They raised a family in Neu St. Jürgen. (C2)
Death:
He died of dropsy at 1.30 a.m. on the 16h of August 1864 in Neu St. Jürgen. He was a 75 years old widower. He was buried in the cemetery in Worpswede three days later. (C2)
Guenter
Koerner
