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Starkebaum, Jobst Henrich

Male 1800 - 1873  (73 years)


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  • Name Starkebaum, Jobst Henrich 
    Born 17 Apr 1800  Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    • In the record of his birth, Jobst's parents were identified as Johann Berend Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Fischer.
    Gender Male 
    Died 22 Oct 1873  Banter bei Hannover [Germany] Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    Person ID I1661  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 24 Sep 2006 

    Father Starkebaum, Johann Bernhard,   b. 17 Mar 1770, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Jun 1818, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 48 years) 
    Mother Strate oder Fischer, Christine Elisabeth,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Married 26 Apr 1795  Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 6, 7, 8] 
    • 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.
    Family ID F553  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S58] Familie Gerhard Meier, Nachfahren des Ludolph Starkebaum aus Sonneborn (Oerlinghausen, BRD: Familie Meier, [1996-1997?]), page 11.
      Jobst Henrich Starkebaum, child of Johann Conrad Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Strate Fischer, born 17 April 1800 in Sonneborn.

    2. [S86] Martin Henning Meier, Genealogical research, "photos and more," email to J. Mark Fiegenbaum, 18 February 2002.
      Jobst Heinrich, born 17 April 1800. The names of his parents were recorded as Johann Berend Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Fischer.

    3. [S58] Familie Gerhard Meier, Nachfahren des Ludolph Starkebaum aus Sonneborn (Oerlinghausen, BRD: Familie Meier, [1996-1997?]), page 11.
      Jobst Henrich died 22 October 1873 in Banter bei Hannover.

    4. [S86] Martin Henning Meier, Genealogical research, "photos and more," email to J. Mark Fiegenbaum, 18 February 2002.
      Jobst Heinrich died 22 October 1873 "in the near of Hannover."

    5. [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.

    6. [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.

    7. [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!"

    8. [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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