Eggert Family Genealogy

Spannuth, Johann

Birth:     Volksdorf, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe
Baptism:   31 Aug 1644, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe

Father:    Spannuth, Johann ( +>1654)
Mother:    Woltemate, Engel ()

Married	Hardekopff, Margarete ()
	     2 Oct 1671, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe
Children:
    1. Spannuth, Engel (*1674 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe +1747 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
    2. Spannuth, Margreta (*1679 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
    3. Spannuth, Johann Ernst Andreas (*1682 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
    4. Spannuth, Johann Hermann (*1684 Hespe, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe +1757 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)

Notes:
Linenweaver and Brinksitzer in Hespe. He is listed among the tradesmen in Hespe in 1674. He inherited a farm in Hespe when he married the widow Heine. Heine's parents retained their rights to live on the farm and received an allowance of 4 thalers a year because they bought additional land for clearing. His stepson Hanß Heine received 10 thalers, a cow, and a half dowry, in addition to 8 thalers from Hanß Hitseman and 7 thalers from Hartman Möller. Johann Spannuth received 15 thalers, a cow, and a half dowry from his brother-in-law Johann Wichgreffen.

Taufpate: Herting Niemen aus Volksdorf.

Sources:
SP(Page: 44, ID: 166), MERBCK, NFK(Volume: 4, Year: 1986, Page: 591), SP11(Page: 11), EHEBERED2(ID: 1802)

Hardekopff, Margarete


Father:    Haddendorff, Jacob ( +>1660)
Mother:    ____,  ( +>1679)

Married(1) Bunnemann, Herm ()
	     26 Feb 1660

Married(2) Heine, Laeg ( +1669)
	     24 Nov 1669
Children:
    1. Heine, Hanß ()

Married(3) Spannuth, Johann (*1644 Volksdorf, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
	     2 Oct 1671, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe
Children:
    1. Spannuth, Engel (*1674 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe +1747 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
    2. Spannuth, Margreta (*1679 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
    3. Spannuth, Johann Ernst Andreas (*1682 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
    4. Spannuth, Johann Hermann (*1684 Hespe, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe +1757 Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)

Notes:
Or Haddendorps, though the identification of Hardekopff=Haddendorp may be incorrect. She was from Ohndorf. She lived in Lüdersfeld[?] after her first marriage. Her dowry was 140 Thaler, one horse, a cow, a bull, a forged Stell, and half the wedding cost.

Sources:
SP(Page: 44), MERBCK, SP11(Page: 11), EHEBERED2(Page: 95, ID: 1802), EHEBERED2(Page: 87, ID: 1732), EHEBERED2(Page: 58, ID: 1460)

Spannuth, Johann

Death:     after 1654

Father:    Spannuth, Hans ( +>1620)

Married	Woltemate, Engel ()
	     18 Jun 1620
Children:
    1. Spannuth, Margarete ()
    2. Spannuth, Henrich (*1641 Volksdorf, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
    3. Spannuth, Johann (*1644 Volksdorf, Meerbeck, Schaumburg-Lippe)
    4. Spannuth, Catharine ()

Notes:
In 1620 he was not listed as a house owner in Volksdorf. He inherited a farm at Volksdorf Nr. 30 from his elderly cousin Alheit Holle née Bose. Her husband Herman Hollen had passed away, and they had agreed that the farm should go to someone in their circle of acquaintances. His new wife was also known on the farm in Volksdorf. In exchange, the widow Holle was permitted to live on the farm, eat and drink with the young couple, help with the work as far as she was able, keep one pig and one plot of the garden. If there were any disagreement, she would be allowed to retain 2 morgen of land, 3 cows, and the garden plot and the pig, and if she sold the pig, she could get another from their stock.

On 18 July 1627 he served as a marriage witness for Albert Woltemate. On 28 Sep 1629 he served again as a marriage witness. On 24 May 1628 he served as guarantor for Tileke Schekell in Volksdorf and on 21 Jan 1636 and 21 April 1638 for Albert Woltemate in Volksdorf. On 20 May 1650 he served as a marriage witness in Volksdorf.

In July 1629 he, Tileke Schekel, Ludeke Wilhelm, Hans Weembbover, Johan Heine, and Tileke Hartman angrily chopped down 63 shrubs belonging to Tonnies Volckening, and destroyed a fence belonging to Johan Engelking, threatening to tear down his house and barn. They had to pay reparations in beer. In the proceedings it was asserted that Johann Spannuth did not honor the church high festivals and only grubbed for money. As he had learned to read and write, he collected the war taxes, from which he retained one thaler weekly.

On 24 February 1632, Johann was involved in trouble in Meerbeck. He had taken a firearm to Meerbeck and left it in a room. A servant, not knowing the firearm was loaded, shot it. Lutwich Hittenseman forcibly took the firearm from Johann and broke it into pieces, whereupon a fight broke out.

In 1633 he lost one horse, six cattle, and one pig to roving marauders in the Thirty Years' War.

In a marriage contract dated 15 April 1654, Johann transferred his farm and house to his daughter Margaretha and her new husband Henrich Meyer, keeping 3 morgen of land, a meadow on the Soellhorst, 2 cows and a pig, and two fruit trees for himself. A son received 15 thalers and a half dowry and another daughter, Catharine received 80 thalers and a half dowry. The latter was later reduced to 50 thalers, a cow, pillows, blankets, beds, clothes, and a half dowry.

Sources:
SP(Page: 44, ID: 162), MERIBIKI(Page: 107), SP11(Page: 3-11)

Spannuth, Hans

Death:     after 1620

Father:    Spannuth, Lütke Tönnies (*c1493 +1564)
Mother:    ____, Cathrin (*>1500 +1581)

Married	
Children:
    1. Spannuth, Johann ( +>1654)
    2. Spannuth, Tönnies ( +>1647)

Notes:
Postulated as Johann in SP.44-45. He may be the grandson rather than the son of Lütke Tönnies Spannuth.

Sources:
SP(Page: 44, ID: 161), SP11(Page: 3)

Spannuth, Lütke Tönnies

Birth:     about 1493
Death:     between 1564 and 1581

Father:    Spannuth, Tönnies (*c1470 Wiedensahl, Hannover +1547)
Mother:    Pedig, Hilla ()

Married	____, Cathrin (*>1500 +1581)
	     between 1520 and 1530
Children:
    1. Spannuth, Tönnies (*1520 +>1609)
    2. Spannuth, Hans ( +>1620)

Notes:
Kötner on the Stätte am Sahle, Wiedensahl.

Sources:
SP(Page: 11,44:58), WIED(Page: 71), LOCCUM2(Item: E, Page: 3), SP10B

____, Cathrin

Birth:     after 1500
Death:     22 Dec 1581


Married	Spannuth, Lütke Tönnies (*c1493 +1564)
	     between 1520 and 1530
Children:
    1. Spannuth, Tönnies (*1520 +>1609)
    2. Spannuth, Hans ( +>1620)

Notes:
Cathrin was the first person in the Loccum area accused of witchcraft, and the only one to be tried in open court and with oral testimony. The court was held outdoors, according to the custom of the Middle Ages. On 15 Dec 1581 a female neighbor accused her in open court of having enchanted several chickens. She was also accused of enchanting a neighbor so that he was crazy for a year, and of using magic to turn a female neighbor into a cripple. She was interrogated and tortured on 17 Dec 1581 until she confessed in the presence of seven witnesses. Her confession also included the claim that she had had sex with a devil and that his semen was cold as ice. He was described as wearing colorful clothing, black and red, with a black cap, black pants, and little shoes. On 20 Dec 1581, Cathrin was again brought before the court, whereupon sentence was passed, she was led out, and executed.

Her husband's nephew's wife was Gesche Barnewold, sister to the Catholic abbot of Loccum, Johannes VIII (Barnewoldt), who was legally in charge of such matters. The abbot assigned Johann Brasse, mayor of Wiedensahl, to serve in his place as judge for this case. This may have been due to lack of interest, though, as he often abdicated his responsibility as judge to others. There is no evidence that this case was pursued as part of a Catholic/Protestant controversy.

The normal fate of a convicted witch was to be burned at the stake. In cases of clemency, usually shown after a confession, the witch was first beheaded, then burned at the stake.

WIED.71 says this happened in 1582, but that is in error.

Sources:
SP(Page: 11,13), WIED(Page: 71), DRACHENK, SP10B, SP17(Page: 31-33,40-41,69-70,72,80)

Spannuth, Tönnies

Birth:     about 1470, Wiedensahl, Hannover
Death:     1547


Married	Pedig, Hilla ()
	     before 1492
Children:
    1. Spannuth, Lütke Tönnies (*c1493 +1564)
    2. Spanuth, Wilcken (*c1494 +>1564)
    3. Spanuth, Marquardt (*c1495 Wiedensahl, Hannover +>1576)
    4. Spanuth, Hilla (*1496)
    5. Spanuth, Johan (*1498 +1558)
    6. Spanuth, olde Tönnieß (*1513 +c1596)

Notes:
Kötner on the "Stätte am Sahle", later Nr. 76 in Wiedensahl (not 80, as it says in the 1912 Stammbuch). Kellereihofpächter since 1519. Built a tithing barn in 1538.

LOCCUM2.E gives his marriage year to Hilla Pedig as 1513.

Sources:
SP(Page: 4,11:1), SP2(Table: 1-6, Page: 2), SP3(Page: 2), LOCCUM2(Item: E, Page: 3)

Pedig, Hilla


Father:    Pedig, Marquard (*Wiedensahl, Hannover +1521 Wiedensahl, Hannover)
Mother:    ____, Hilla ()

Married	Spannuth, Tönnies (*c1470 Wiedensahl, Hannover +1547)
	     before 1492
Children:
    1. Spannuth, Lütke Tönnies (*c1493 +1564)
    2. Spanuth, Wilcken (*c1494 +>1564)
    3. Spanuth, Marquardt (*c1495 Wiedensahl, Hannover +>1576)
    4. Spanuth, Hilla (*1496)
    5. Spanuth, Johan (*1498 +1558)
    6. Spanuth, olde Tönnieß (*1513 +c1596)

Notes:
Only daughter.

Sources:
SP(Page: 4,19), WIED(Page: 26)

Pedig, Marquard

Birth:     Wiedensahl, Hannover
Death:     1521, Wiedensahl, Hannover

Father:    Pedigk,  ()

Married	____, Hilla ()
	     1473, Wiedensahl, Hannover
Children:
    1. Pedig, Hilla ()

Notes:
The modern version of the Pedig surname is Peeck. He came from "Pedigen Hofe", now Nr. 13 in Wiedensahl. He was married at the Kellerey Hof in Wiedensahl. He died in the granary in the churchyard in Wiedensahl, the same granary that he built in 1500.

WIED.26 and SP3.2 give his marriage year as 1443.

Sources:
SP(Page: 12), WIED(Page: 26), SP3(Page: 2), LOCCUM2(Item: E, Page: 2-3)

Bredthauer, Oscar Everett

Birth:     4 Apr 1908, near Elyria, Valley Co, Nebraska
Death:     24 Dec 1993, Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska
Burial:    28 Dec 1993, Scotia, Greeley Co, Nebraska

Father:    Bredthauer, Heinrich Dietrich Wilhelm (*1870 Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe +1944 Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska)
Mother:    Hackel, Mary Anna (*1872 near Pentwater, Oceana Co, Michigan +1966 Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska)

Married	Foth, Lydia Hulda (*1909 Mira Valley, Valley Co, Nebraska +1989 Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska)
	     2 Feb 1930, near Ord, Valley Co, Nebraska
Children:
    1. Bredthauer, Barbara Ann (*Ord, Valley Co, Nebraska)
    2. Bredthauer, Elizabeth June (*near North Loup, Valley Co, Nebraska +Russell, Russell Co, Kansas)
    3. Bredthauer, Robert Oscar (*North Loup, Valley Co, Nebraska +Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska)
    4. Bredthauer, Rosemary Lydia (*Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska +Kearney, Buffalo Co, Nebraska)
    5. Bredthauer, Oscar Everett Jr (*Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska)
    6. Bredthauer, John William (*Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska)
    7. Bredthauer, Joan Ruth (*Grand Island, Hall Co, Nebraska)

Notes:
203 East 22nd, Grand Island NE 68801 Farmer and cattle feeder. He finished high school. They lived the first five years after marriage one mile south of North Loup, Nebraska. On 2 Dec 1935 they moved to the new farm two miles north of Grand Island. On 16 Jan 1964 they moved to Grand Island. He was president of the National Livestock Feeders Association, city councilman for 13 years, then mayor of Grand Island, Nebraska. He also served as president of the National Meat Board, Fonner Park Race Track, and Memorial Hospital Board. He was president of the Trinity Lutheran Church congregation, the church elders, and education and building committees. He died suddenly at age 85 of an apparent heart attack.

Sources:
F(Page: 58), H(Page: 13), B2(Page: 15), Z(Page: 32), BBA, CEN1910, CEN1920, CEN1930, IL(Page: 8), OA85, OQ3, VOV(Page: 167), B3(Page: 20), SSDI(ID: 507-48-6545), F9293, B4(Page: 12), MTHOPE, Z2(Page: 48), CEN1930I, B5(Page: 20)

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