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Family: Starkebaum, Johann Bernhard / Strate oder Fischer, Christine Elisabeth (F553)

• Father | Male Starkebaum, Johann Bernhard

  
  

  Born	17 Mar 1770	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	3 Jun 1818	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Buried
  Married	26 Apr 1795  [1, 2, 3, 4]	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Father	Starkebaum, Hermann Henrich | F543 Group Sheet
  Mother	Budde, Greta Elisabeth | F543 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Strate oder Fischer, Christine Elisabeth

  
  

  Born
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried
  Father
  Mother

  
  

  Child 1 | Female Starkebaum, Anna Christine Elisabeth

  
  

  Born	25 Oct 1795	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	10 Dec 1795	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Buried

  
  

  Child 2 | Female + Starkebaum, Anna Maria Christine

  
  

  Born	14 Apr 1797	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	2 Apr 1875	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Buried
  Spouse	Budde, Johann Heinrich | F554
  Married	19 Oct 1823	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe

  
  

  Child 3 | Female Starkebaum, Friederike Ilsabein

  
  

  Born	25 Jan 1799	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Buried

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Starkebaum, Jobst Henrich

  
  

  Born	17 Apr 1800	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	22 Oct 1873	Banter bei Hannover [Germany]
  Buried

  
  

  Child 5 | Female Starkebaum, Friederike Louise Wilhelmine

  
  

  Born	28 Aug 1802	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	11 Oct 1879	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Buried
  Spouse	Lange, Franz Heinrich | F555
  Married	18 Oct 1835	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe

  
  

  Child 6 | Female Starkebaum, Christine Friderike

  
  

  Born	24 Aug 1804	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	1804	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Buried

  
  

  Child 7 | Female Starkebaum, Friederike Wilhelmine Elisabeth

  
  

  Born	7 Mar 1811	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	16 Mar 1811	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Buried

  
  

  Child 8 | Female Starkebaum, Friederike Dorothee

  
  

  Born	24 May 1812	Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe
  Died	7 Apr 1843	Barntrup, Principality of Lippe
  Buried
  Spouse	Budde, Heinrich | F1639
  Married	22 Sep 1839	Barntrup, Principality of Lippe

  
  

• Notes

  Married: In the record of this marriage at the church in Sonneborn, the names were recorded as Johann Berend Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Strate.      It was not an uncommon practice in parts of northwestern Germany for a husband to assume his wife's family name upon marriage if she inherited the property rights of the family farm. The children born to this couple also often took on the mother's family name. Evidence of this practice will often appear in church records when a person will be identified with two surnames joined by the word oder (=or) or by the word genannt (=named). This has clearly already happened in the family of "Christine Elisabeth Strate oder Fisher."      Occasionally this practice will be less readily evident. Instead of the use of both surnames at once, one or the other of the names may also be used interchangeably during the course of the family's life, with no apparent consistency. At the births of their children, parents may sometimes be identified with both surnames together or with only one or the other of their family names. Later on, the children themselves may be recorded with one surname at their confirmation and perhaps another at the time of their own marriage.      This mixed practice can be found in the records of this family. When Johann Bernhard Starkebaum married and took over farm number 86 in Sonneborn, he was also known by his father-in-law's surname, Strate. His children also appear to have been known by either family name, but adopted Strate when they married.

  
  

• Sources

  [S58] Familie Gerhard Meier, Nachfahren des Ludolph Starkebaum aus Sonneborn (Oerlinghausen, BRD: Familie Meier, [1996-1997?]), page 11. Johann Conrad Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Strate Fischer married 26 April 1795 in Sonneborn. [S59] Starkebaum Family, 1699-1985; selected records from the archives of the evangelishe Kirchengemeinde Sonneborn. Compiled by Pastor Hein and reported to Curtis and Alice Starkebaum (Sonneborn, BRD: evg.-ref. Kirchengemeinde Sonneborn, 1985), page 1. Johann Bernhard Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Strate married 26 April 1795. [S86] Martin Henning Meier, Genealogical research, "Family research," email to J. Mark Fiegenbaum, 12 February 2002.      "The name of his wife was Christine Elisabeth STRATE or FISCHER. This practice of surname giving is a very peculiarity. If a man married a daughter of a farmer and the couple took over the farm of the father-in-law, the young husband usually assumend the surname of his wife. In this case their children mostley took the surname of their mother too. In church records frequently there are entered two surnames for a child - the surname of the father and the surname of the mother. On this way it is explainable that Christine Elisabeth was known as STRATE or FISCHER! But her best known name was STRATE, so the report of Pastor Hein is right!      "By the way: Johann Bernhard/Conrad Starkebaum, her husband, took over the farm of his father-in-law (No. 86 in Sonneborn) and was also known as STRATE after his marriage with Christine Elisabeth.      "I'm sure already that 'Conrad' was not one of his first names; so you can cross it out!" [S86] Martin Henning Meier, Genealogical research, "photos and more," email to J. Mark Fiegenbaum, 18 February 2002. In the record of the marriage, the names were recorded as Johann Berend Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Strate. Berend is a short form of the name Bernhard. Martin wrote: "In the records of the birth dates of their children there [is] no uniform given surname for Johann Bernhard Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Strate."

  
  

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