In a message dated 9/23/2002 7:08:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
Werner.Honkomp@t-online.de writes:
Hello Nancy,
the political boarder for this time splited the parish of Damme to Münster
(M) and Oldenburg(O).
M and O shows the political part of the parish.
Werner> In 1795 in Damme the recorder of marriages put the social or landholding
> status in the record. He has, for example, "O Halb Erben," O
Heuerleute,"
> "O
> Kotter." On some of the records he puts only "M."
> My question is, what do O and M mean?
> Nancy Pundsack
Werner,
As a followup to your response, did the "O" stand for Oldenburg or Osnabrück.
I thought that the references that I have seen in the past in Pagenstert
were to Osnabrück, and that Oldenburg didn't take over the Damme area until
the early 1800's.
Don