familyjesse schrieb:
I have been researching my JESSE family in Monchhagen and it looks like the
earliest records are showing the name JESS, JESSENS and JESSEN. I saw in
the records that there are JESS, JESSE, JESSEN and JESSIN families in the
little towns that around Monchhagen that all went to the Volkenshagen
parish, particularly Vogtshagen and Volkenshagen... These other forms of the
name I assumed were different families until they began to show up as
godparents (paten) on my JESSE records. Now I am wondering if these are
earlier forms of the name?
That might be, but more probably will be, that this are variations in reading and
writing by the parish-book writers, which are quite often and led sometimes even
to further different using of names.
I have discovered a little town near Monchhagen named Bentwich that is near
to Monchhagen. LDS has a record of a name study for the JESS family from
this location. With these two pieces of information is it reasonable to
assume that there could be a relationship with this JESS family from
Bentwich? Would it be worth ordering the name study from LDS or might I be
wasting my time?
As you are already had come so far with your research, you shouldn't let out this
chances of coming along. Although no one could guarantee it is the absolute
directly way, one may presume you will find additional informations about the
Jesse families and their connections. Once getting the twine, one often finds
easily some hundred of bearer of the name in the region documented. To get the
files sorted, one has to go threw gathering first all available dates. Sooner or
later the one searched for will be among them. So in my opinion no waste of time
at all. By the way some information about your places:
18182 M�nchhagen = former 2551 M�nchhagen, new and old postcode.nr.GDR, in that
time classified as between 500 and 1000 inhabitants. (If you can't write the
Umlaut "�" you should write "oe")
18182 Bentwisch = former 2551 Bentwisch, new and old postcode.nr.GDR, in that
time classified as between 1000 and 1500 inhabitants. ( As there are two more
Bentwisch today, the nr. helps finding the right one back )
Source old nrs.: Ortslexikon Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Berlin 1986
Also, if records begin at Monchhagen in 1704 and the same in surrounding
villages, but one or two villages begin records in 1563 and 1640 would it be
that the people of these earlier times went to the parishes at these older
places or only that the records for earlier times are lost or that the later
locations did not exist at this time? Any advice?
The reason will be, that they hadn't started earlier to documentarize the events
of church life as baptism, buriels and marriages. Their main purpose should have
been at first only the documentation of the priests work. As a general and com-
plete documentation of all events it lasted a time to become use. If you have
access to the elder parish books and find written that persons from the younger
places (1704) are regularly registered, that could mean the latter one churches
were then new build. People had to go to church every sunday and of course shor-
tened the way by building a new church, what meant also having become rich enough
to support a priest of its own. What meant also a better standing of the parish.
But there might be a better knower of the local church history on the list, who
knows more exactly details of the Rostock area.
One more question... I'm sure I'd know if I could read German... how can I
calculate distance between locations on the map site:
www.stadtplan.net/brd/mecklenburg_vorpommern/mecklenburg_bl_gesundheit/ie_ht
ml
The distance between M�nchhagen und Bentwisch should be about 6 or 7 km, from
Rostock(centre) to Laage there are 20km. I would try and mesure out the distances
by comparing to these distances.
Good luck in soon finding the right Jesse. Sincerely Hans Peter Albers