Johann Friedrich Marries

Marriage Record of Johann Friedrich Elling

The marriage record was much easier to find than the birth record! A simple letter to a German archives produced this record rather quickly. (Remember word order is different. ) It says:

Extract of the Register of Marriages of the evang. luth Church Records of Walsrode. Year - 1842 Page - 111 (Probably Vol 4) Date of Wedding - 25 February 1842

Name, Status and Residence of the Husband: The bachelor and landlord, Johann Friedrich Elling in Tietlingen, the legitimate son of the landlord, Johann Friedrich Elling and Ilse born Meyer.

Name, Status and Residence of the Wife: The single woman Anne Marie Engel Fuhrhop of Hunsingen, legitimate daughter of the owner of a full farm, Heinrich Fuhrhop and Catharine born Kappenberg.

This document provides us with the parents of my gg grandmother, her village of birth, occupations of the men, and the wedding date.

The German dictionary gives the definition of hauswirth as "landlord." I am not sure that this is the same definition given in the 1840's. In Tietlingen, there was a main farm - the Asche farm currently. 

I have corresponded with a descendant in Germany from this Asche family and he does not know who owned the farm before that. His father, born in 1885, took over the farm and he says, "...where the Elling family lived many years." He also says...and this would have been in the WW II years, "Nevertheless, I well remember that the youth of Tietlingen gathered very often during summer evenings in front of the house of the Elling family." So there were Elling's there as late as 1944, according to his memory. There is much to be discovered about this yet, but I have not found much historical information on Tietlingen that goes back into the early 1800's.

Anne Marie's father, Heinrich, was listed as a Vollmeier - an owner of a full farm.
Hunzingen (Fuhrhop) and Tietlingen (Elling) are about 9 kilometers or a little more than 5 miles apart.