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  • Name Strate oder Fischer, Christine Elisabeth 
    Born Y  [1] 
    • The exact date and place of Christine Elisabeth's birth is not yet known, which makes it difficult to provide specific details about the circumstances of the use of the Strate and Fischer surnames.
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I1657  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 13 Mar 2011 

    Family 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) 
    Married 26 Apr 1795  Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5] 
    • 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.
    Children 
     1. Starkebaum, Anna Christine Elisabeth,   b. 25 Oct 1795, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Dec 1795, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    +2. Starkebaum, Anna Maria Christine,   b. 14 Apr 1797, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Apr 1875, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     3. Starkebaum, Friederike Ilsabein,   b. 25 Jan 1799, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Starkebaum, Jobst Henrich,   b. 17 Apr 1800, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Oct 1873, Banter bei Hannover [Germany] Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 73 years)
     5. Starkebaum, Friederike Louise Wilhelmine,   b. 28 Aug 1802, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Oct 1879, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years)
     6. Starkebaum, Christine Friderike,   b. 24 Aug 1804, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1804, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location
     7. Starkebaum, Friederike Wilhelmine Elisabeth,   b. 7 Mar 1811, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Mar 1811, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
     8. Starkebaum, Friederike Dorothee,   b. 24 May 1812, Sonneborn, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Apr 1843, Barntrup, Principality of Lippe Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years)
    Last Modified 6 Aug 2018 
    Family ID F553  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S86] Martin Henning Meier, Genealogical research, "photos and more," email to J. Mark Fiegenbaum, 18 February 2002.
      "Johann Bernhard Starkebaum (1770-1818) married Christine Elisabeth Strate oder Fischer in 1795. Unfortunetly I have no dates of birth or death of this woman yet. So I can´t say where the name FISCHER leads from. In the records of the birth dates of their children there [is] no uniform given surname for Johann Bernhard Starkebaum and Christine Elisabeth Strate."

    2. [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.

    3. [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.

    4. [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!"

    5. [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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