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Pott Matthias [Male] d. BEF 1659 Marburg?
I have seen a death date of 1653.
Born in Weymers Haus in Wunderthausen.
Around 1700, the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein began granting rights for new houses and land. Recipients paid a fairly high tax (called a "Canon"), but were exempt from some of the other tax and service burdens of the other peasants. Many were individual houses outside of the developed villages, and the property at Petersgrund near Wunderthausen was one of them.
It was operating by 1712. Heinrich Beitzel, born in Hanses Haus in Diedenshausen, was the first "Canonist" in Petersgrund (also known locally as "Auf dem Platz").
Born in Häusches Haus in Girkhausen but married into Haase Haus in Wunderthausen.
Born in Haase Haus which passed to her husband upon her marriage.
Haase Haus was built for Johannes Haase, probably in the 1730s. His origins are not known but he was probably not from Wunderthausen originally.
Tenant in Linde Haus.
Born in Diele or Schreiners Haus in Diedenshausen.
Lived in Linde Haus. Members of the Dienst family lived in this house as early as 1610. It is one of the oldest in Wunderthausen.
Lived in Diele Haus in Diedenshausen but became the tenant in Schreiners on his marriage to Anna Benfer.
Born in Neuhausers Haus in Girkhausen. It is conjecture by this author that she is the daughter of Johann Georg Spies.
Born at the Wunderthausen Mill and lived there. Christened Johannes Matthias. A record of his death is oddly missing from the local church records. I would surmise that he died after 1788 when his son (and heir to the mill) Johann Georg married.
Married into Bormanns Haus in Wunderthausen.
In an exception to the rule of passing tenancy to the oldest child of either gender, the mill remained in the hands of a Mörchen from its first mention in the early 1700s until it was demolished around 1920. One record says that J. Matthäus (or Matthias) came to Wunderthausen from Bromskirchen, a larger town to the east outside of Wittgenstein (then in the province of Waldeck). Yet others claim he came from Waldeck in Bavaria (which I find very doubtful). If the mill was established when Matthias Mörchen came to Wunderthausen, it was during the reign of Graf Casimir who tried his best to diversify the economy of Wittgenstein. Establishing a mill where there had been none and bringing in a trained miller would have been consistent with Casimir's practices.
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