Oh, man, I didn't notice the "Cath."/"Christiane" difference! Despite typing both repeatedly into google hoping to turn them up. I did notice the daughter had the mother's name and the oldest son got the name and job of his father, which of course was quite typical.
To play devil's advocate, Christiane/Christina and Susanne/Susanne are the kind of name interchange that happened among contemporaries (they *didn't* care about names the same way we do), so they're often represented differently in our sources, and it's possible Anna had three names (swapping the order of names was common as well), but definitely this author doesn't inspire confidence that they're not just being sloppy with their source material.
Also. If you're going to quote verbatim from Fredersdorf's will, CITATIONS OMG. *headdesk*
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 03:20 pm (UTC)To play devil's advocate, Christiane/Christina and Susanne/Susanne are the kind of name interchange that happened among contemporaries (they *didn't* care about names the same way we do), so they're often represented differently in our sources, and it's possible Anna had three names (swapping the order of names was common as well), but definitely this author doesn't inspire confidence that they're not just being sloppy with their source material.
Also. If you're going to quote verbatim from Fredersdorf's will, CITATIONS OMG. *headdesk*
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.
I did notice that!