Johan Henrich ALBERDING

• Born: April 11, 1730 in Alfhausen, Hannover, Germany
• Died:  July 5, 1808 in Alfhausen, Hannover, Germany

Married: November 1756

Anna Margaretha MEIJERS

• For the birth of Anna Margaretha Meyer, there are two possibilities: she was either baptized in Alfhausen on Sep. 21, 1724, parents Joan Mejer and Anna Gedruht (Gertrud) Plumper, or she was baptized in Alfhausen on May 16, 1734, parents Arndt Meijer and Töbke Hasekamp.
• Died: September 22, 1778 in Alfhausen 

Not married but had child with:

Margaretha Maria RECHTIEN 

Daughter of Joan Jurgen RECHTIN and Anna Catharina REKAMP (married in Alfhausen on January 16, 1736)

• Baptised: February 19, 1739 in Alfhausen 
• Died: about October 31, 1796 in Alfhausen 

* Although the record in Alfhausen’s Dead Book states that she was 65 years old when she died, she was only 57 years old. This kind of error was not uncommon. 

Obviously, Margaretha Maria Rechtin, 17 years old, had a love affair with Johan Henrich Alberding, because the couple got a child. Amazingly, this child was born in the same month of Johan Henrich’s marriage with an other women, Anna Margaretha Meyer. This must have caused a great scandal. As the exact day of the the marriage is not registered, it is unknown whether the child was born before or after the father’s marriage.

In Alfhausen’s roman-catholic Baptization Book, she was explicitly registered as an illegitimate child of Johan Henrich Alberding and Margaretha Maria Rechtien. Before the name of the father, the priest wrote the word “Pater”, which means in this case “biological father”. The fact that his name was registered indicates that the father took the responsibility for the child’s birth.

Children

Margaretha Maria Elisabetha ALBERDING

*: Information collected by Hans Gloerich 
Using a Transcription of the the Church Books of Alfhausen 
by S. J. Smid 

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