In my previous Blog, I went over many of my Rathfelder ancestors who were listed in Hirchenhof, Latvia in documents called revision lists. It occurred to me that many of my other Latvian ancestors should be listed there. Here is the Latvian part of my family tree:
My choices are Schweccheimer, Gangnus, or Lutke as my grandfather’s grandparents other than Rathfelder. I have a book on Gangnus and there are two lines there, but I would like to try Lutke as I do not know much about that Line.
I see that I have very few DNA matches on the Lutke Line:
Lutke in the Revision Lists
Anna Jacobine was my 2nd great-grandmother born on Wirt 2 according to my records. It would be perhaps easier to track her down by her husband first.
Jacobine in 1858
Here is Jacobine with her husband in 1858:
As a bonus, I see my great grandmother Maria Elisabeth Gangnus:
Of course, she was just a baby in 1858.
Here I just wrote down the bare minimum as I was interested in Jacobine. My interpretation is that this family went from #10 to #8, but I am not sure.
Friederick in 1858
Here, I think I would do better in finding her father.
This is interesting as Friederick lived on Farm 2 and was family 3. From my last Blog, I had that my Rathfelder side was from Farm 3 and Family 4. I guess there was a next-door marriage.
This is the picture I see for 1858:
- Jacobine Lutke moves from Farm 30 to marry Philip Gangnus some time before 1858 and has Maria Elisabeth.
- Friedrick Lutke lives at Farm 2 in Hirschenhof which is presumably where Jacobine was born.
- Other children of Friedrick need to be added to my family tree.
This is what I have now for Friedrich. He has more children than Jacobine:
Next, I will look at the Raduraksti Revision Lists. Here is the Link:
I mention this because it is not obvioius when looking for Hirschenhof. I found what I was looking for on page 318 of 620:
Interestingly, the surname shows as Lutchen rather than Lutke. This is either a variation or the name has changed in 8 years.
Next, I can start to add family members to these two Lutke families. This is a little complicated for Carl Heinrich Lutchen as Anna Charlotte Maertz appears to be a second wife. Here is a marriage record for Johann Heinrich:
Going back another Revision may clear this up. I also found this tree at Ancestry which clears things up:
It appears that the 1850 Revision mixed up Jacobine and Friedricke and that this tree is correct above.
Lutkes in 1834
This is on page 88 at the Raduraksti Web Site:
Right side of Page:
This is what I need to check as I have that Carl Heinrich Lutke was married to Maria Eva Buchenroth. Here Jacobine is back as the elder sister to Friederike. Here is my transcription showing three generations of my Lutke ancestors:
The 1816 Revision
Here is where my Buchenroth ancestor comes in.
I assume that Maria Eva Buchenroth passed away between 1818 and 1834 and Carl Heinrich Lutke married Anna Charlotte Merz.
Lutke in 1811
I like the title page:
This was the ‘not women allowed’ Revision:
This is easy to write down:
This yields an extra generation of Lutke: my ancestor Friedrich born around 1756.
The 1782 Audit of Souls
Here the Lutken family is at Farm 13, or they are family 13.
If I read this right, Anna Elisabeth had Adam Johann when she was 47?
Here is a baptism for Carl Heinrich:
It looks like he was born on 25 January 1770. This is a bit confusing as I have that he was born in 1772 and that his mother was a Stolts. This mother appears to be a Dannewald. Or perhaps Dannewald was a sponsor or Godparent.
Here is an entry for 1773:
I wonder if this child died young. This Ancestry tree confirms that:
This 1771 record seems to contradict the 1773 record – though there could have been two children with the same name.
One goal from this exercise is to fill in the Lutke families on my Ancestry Tree:
Here are the three Trees at Ancestry give to me as hints for Ernst Friedrick Lutke:
From the 1782 Audit, I have 4 of the possible 6 children. We know that Johann Friedrick Wilhelm died young, so that accounts for 5 of the possibel 6 children from Ancestry trees. That leaves Magdalena Dorothea (without dates) as being unaccounted for. I would be satisfied to add the children as per the last Tree.
I now have this vertical fuller view of the Lutke family in Hirschenhof:
The families got larger in each generation. So this is three generations of the Lutke family with the fourth generation being Jacobine Lutke who married a Gangnus.
Here is a photo from Hirschenhof of one of the farm dwellings:
Summary and Conclusions
- The Audit of Souls and Revision Lists give a peek into the family makeup of many of my Lutke ancestors
- They also give an idea of where these famlilies lived and who they lived near.
- These Census substitutes were quite advanced for their time giving a lot of information not normally found elsewhere.
- I was able to add a lot of sibling information, fiilling out my Lutke familiy trees.
- I was also able to confirm the following Lutke wives’ surnames of Furhmann, Buchenroth and Stoltz.