Heh, not least because Fredersdorf's youngest sister is called "Anna Christiane" here (which is apparently his mother's name), "Anna Cath." in the literal quote from his will (unsourced as you note, why doesn't she say where she got that from?), and "Anna Christina" a couple pages down, which might be closest, because there's a facsimile signature attached that seems to say just that. But hey, the author also calls Fredersdorf's noble benefactress "Susanna" and "Susanne" in turns, so who cares about names? (She also links the nephew to some letters in the secret state archive, but searching their digital data bank for "Fredersdorf", I only turned up entries for our guy.)
That said, even if the names and maybe even the dates are to be taken with a heavy grain of salt, if at least the gist of the will is correct, it seems like all but the youngest of his siblings are dead by 1755, so he doesn't seem to be an outlier when it comes to his dying age.
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Re: Fredersdorf: The Dirk Fahlenkamp Version (I) - Generalities
Date: 2020-10-24 11:27 am (UTC)Heh, not least because Fredersdorf's youngest sister is called "Anna Christiane" here (which is apparently his mother's name), "Anna Cath." in the literal quote from his will (unsourced as you note, why doesn't she say where she got that from?), and "Anna Christina" a couple pages down, which might be closest, because there's a facsimile signature attached that seems to say just that. But hey, the author also calls Fredersdorf's noble benefactress "Susanna" and "Susanne" in turns, so who cares about names?
(She also links the nephew to some letters in the secret state archive, but searching their digital data bank for "Fredersdorf", I only turned up entries for our guy.)
That said, even if the names and maybe even the dates are to be taken with a heavy grain of salt, if at least the gist of the will is correct, it seems like all but the youngest of his siblings are dead by 1755, so he doesn't seem to be an outlier when it comes to his dying age.