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Jessica Fleck
Jessica Fleck ✭
December 20, 2024 edited March 19 in Search

The link to the 1880 census I'm trying to read: Illinois. Census Record Indexes

I'm trying to read the birth place of Mary Katherine Huneke (LHZ9-S46) and her parents. I can't read it. It should be in Germany, according to the birth places of her and her parents on her death certificate. It should be near Hoinkhausen, Lippstadt, Westfalen, Preußen, Deutschland, because I found a baptismal record matching her exact birth date in Germany with a dad that has a first name that starts with W. You can look at the original record but here's a screenshot. I don't think it says Westfalen?

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Wesstraw? Wesshow? I put on her FamilySearch profile Wustrow, Märkisch-Oderland, Brandenburg, Germany, but that's nowhere near Westfalen. Is the baptismal record wrong? Huneke is a pretty uncommon name, and birth date being exactly the same as the death certificate is promising. What do you think?

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  • Re Searching
    Re Searching ✭✭✭✭
    December 20, 2024 edited December 20, 2024

    @Jessica Fleck Just based on the screenshot, comparing the tail end of the word with the line below, and using that to examine the tail end in the left column, there is a fair chance that could end with 'r' or 'er' rather than what seems to be a 'w'

    Can you describe the source and how much time had elapsed between her birth/baptism and the creation of this document ? If you factor in possible corruption of place name as transferred by mouth and written by a person who might not be used to the place names or accents, then the proper place might not actually be what appears to be written.

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  • Jessica Fleck
    Jessica Fleck ✭
    December 20, 2024

    @Re Searching Baptism was 1848 and census was 1880. This is the record:

    https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:D2XZ-97MM

    Name

    Maria Hunecke

    Birth Date

    2. Dezember 1848

    Father's Name

    Wilhelm Hunecke Or Badde

    Father's Sex

    Male

    Mother's Name

    Gertrud Buskühl

    Mother's Sex

    Female

    Event Type

    Baptism

    Event Date

    6. Dezember 1848

    Event Place

    Kreis Paderborn, Provinz Westfalen, Preußen, Deutschland

    Certificate Number

    31

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  • Lars van Ravenzwaaij
    Lars van Ravenzwaaij ✭✭✭
    December 20, 2024 edited December 20, 2024

    It's Westereiden. See your Chat in FS.

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