Notizen zu dieser Person
Birth:
He was born in the village Haudamm near Osterholz-Scharmbeck in Lower Saxony in Germany in January 1720. He was baptised in Osterholz-Scharmbeck on the 15th of that month. His parents were Harm and Lüke Grother. (C1)
Haudamm is now a part of the villages Pennigbüttel and Sandhausen.
Child;
His father was a cottager (German: Heuerling) in Haudamm. (C1)
Work:
He was a "Einwohner" in Haudamm until about 1762. (C1)
Then he took over a newly subdivided plot of marshland in an area called Neu St. Jürgen. It is a part of the Worpswede parish. He was a farmer (German: Halbbauer) in 1780. (C2)
The genealogist Bernd Salewski of Hambergen stated that Hinrich Grotheer was a "Kolonist" in farm No. 44 in Neu St. Juergen. He based a lot of his research on the historian Aust.
According to the "Heimatbuch Neu St. Juergen", the inscription of the house No. 44 is "Herr, lass deine Augen stehen ueber dies Haus Tag und Nacht. Amen. Bauherr Claus Bruennjes und seine Ehefrau Adelheit geb. Grotheer. Errichtet den 28ten April 1881."
The address is Worpswede, Dorfstrasse 44 now. A man named Kueck owns the farm now.
Marriage:
He married the single Wulbrig Grother from the village Teufelsmoor, which is in the Scharmbeck parish, on the 29th of April 1742 in the Lutheran church in Scharmbeck. (C1)
They raised their family initially in Haudamm and later in Neu St. Jürgen. (C1, C2)
Death:
He died of asthma at 7 a.m. on the 23rd. of January 1780 in Neu St. Jürgen. He was 62 years old. He was buried in the cemetery in Worpswede two days later. (C2)
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