1650s Nürnberg inheritance and estate laws
A wife died 1652 and her “estate” inventory listed assets including a farm in a village owned by the Nürnberg H.G.Spital. Her husband had bought a farm 2 years earlier. Is this the same farm? The value seems the same. Would it be listed as an asset for the wife? Were the assets sold and debts paid from the proceeds? The estate’s net value was to go to her children, but when would that take place?
A married tenant farmer died in 1665 deeply in debt, so his widow had nothing to raise her 4 young children. Did the widow have any rights or assistance? What was the role of two named Guardians of the children? What was the role of godparents when father died? How did the community care for indigent families?
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Do you have a copy of the estate inventory that you could share here? Or is this a general question? Thank you
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Thanks for your reply. Yes, I have a digital copy of each of the 2 inventories I referred to, multiple pages each. How would that help you respond? I also have transcriptions and English translations. Would those help? Could you please let me know something about your experience with similar situations.
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The copies would help, because the information on those documents should give place names, people names, etc.
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To PABulfinch. I apologize for not stating my question clearly enough. Perhaps we should continue the conversation on email rather than here. I do not feel comfortable making these archive documents available online, given the archive restrictions on use. A team of 3 researchers, 1 German and 2 Americans experienced in German research, have already found the place names, personal names, dates, etc. and analyzed them. What I hoped to find in this "community" was a connection to someone who has experience with Nürnberg archive records and laws related to estate inventories in the mid-1600s.
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