Wow, it has been a long time since anyone posted to the board! I received this e-mail the other day- and was wondering if anyone came across anything like this in their research:
"I became convinced by the way the same person was named Toewe and Toebe and Toeve at different times in the same church record."
Take, for example - Martin Toewe. Farm worker, Martin died at age 73 in Charlottenhoff on 3 Dec 1847. In that record, his name is spelled Töbe.
After his death, on 27 October 1852, Christian Heinrich Pautke married Anna Louise Christine Töwe, age 38, daughter of Martin Töwe from Charlottenhoff.
On 13 September 1841, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Pautke was born on 13 September 1841 to father
Christian Pautne and mother Caroline Töwe in Charlottenhoff and baptized on 13
September. Witnesses included Martin Töwe, farm worker in Charlottenhoff.
In 1835 we have him at the wedding of his daughter "Christlieb Daniel Basler
married Dorothea Maria Toewe, age 25, daughter of Martin Toewe from Charlottenhoff on 10 July 1835."
On 29 May 1831 he is a witness to the baptism of Caroline Sophie Maahs where
he is listed as "Farm worker Martin Töwe of Charlottenhoff".
Henriette Charlotte, daughter of Martin Töve of Charlottenhoff died at age 2
years and 2 months on 1 October 1826.
This is just a partial of the e-mail...anyone have examples of this?
Thanks
Crystal