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Johann Wilhelm von Campe and the Brewers of Salzhemmendorf

Her father, Johann Wilhelm von Campe, was a citizen and brewer of Salzhemmendorf. He was probably the son baptized there to Jost von Campen in August 1717, on a day between the 1st and the 10th. A “Joh. Wilhelm” born on 17 March 1718 and baptized on 20 March to a Jost whose surname cannot be read is possibly he instead. He stood godfather to his first grandson in January 1772 and died that June, on the 11th, and was buried on the 14th, his age left blank. Five days later the family lost Christine’s brother, August Conrad, aged 8 years and 7 months. His widow later followed her daughter to Linse.

The von Campens had brewed at Salzhemmendorf for generations. The head-tax census of 1689 lists there Jost von Campen, brewer, aged 54, with his wife Catrina Fricken and children including Jobst, aged 19. The town’s name index has burials of a Jost aged 82 in 1715 and of a Jost aged 80½ in 1750, which shows two men of the name. The younger was possibly Christine’s grandfather and the brewer of 1689 her great-grandfather. The same index has von Campen baptisms of 1661, 1668, 1671 and 1680 that fit the brewer’s children of 1689 (Ilsabey, 26; Jobst, 19; Dorothea, 18; and Margreta, 8) within a year or two, probably the same children. It also records the burial of a Frantz von Campen in 1674, aged 94; that he was the brewer’s father is a theory resting on the name and the place.

References

Salzhemmendorf Namensregister 1657–1852 (churchRegister 200177), Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge, Archion online viewer: the K and von Campen rows, marriages (Bild 127), burials (Bilder 130–131) and baptisms. Index rows only. Also the R rows: Bild 185–189 and 190–191 (baptisms), 191–192 (marriages) and 192–193 (a second handwritten run): no Rickmann, Riekmann or Rittmeier row before 1801.
Salzhemmendorf Kirchenbuch 1699–1749 (churchRegister 200153), Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge, Archion online viewer: Bild 25, p. 248 (the baptism of August 1717 to Jost von Campen); Bild 26, p. 249 (the baptism of “Joh. Wilhelm,” 20 March 1718); Bild 62, p. 321 (the marriage of Johann Wilhelm von Campe and Maria Eleonora Küster, 28 August 1749).
Halle Kirchenbuch “Taufen Beerdigungen 1766–1799” (churchRegister 390648, 286 images), Kirchenkreis Bodenwerder, Archion online viewer; with the register’s own surname index at Bild 205. Transcriptions:); Bilder 101–102 (the baptisms of September 1785 – March 1786); Bild 104, no. 15 (1786); Bild 113, no. 27 (1788); Bild 117, no. 14 (15 March 1789); Bild 144, no. 12 (25 April 1793); Bild 156 (30 November 1794); Bild 174, no. 8 (12 March 1797); Bild 182, no. 16 (1798); Bild 196, no. 34 (25 September 1799); Bild 250, nos. 7 and 10 (the burials of 1783). Also: Bild 4, 12, 22, 35, 45, 55, 70, 81, 93 and 116 (the baptisms of the children of Johann Christoph Brand and Anne Catharina Voges, 1766–1789); Bild 75, no. 18 (1779), Bild 89, no. 25 (20 May 1782) and Bild 100, no. 20 (1785), the Sporleder baptisms; Bild 176 (10 July 1797); Bild 207, 215, 226, 238, 270 and 271 (the Brand burials of 1766, 1768, 1773, 1777 and 1792, with 1792 no. 37); Bild 222–223 (the Sagebiel and Marahrens burials of 1771–1772); Bild 232, no. 9 (the burial of Franz Heinr. Brand, 1775); the Sagebiel burials of 1768–1771 and baptisms of 1773–1774.
Salzhemmendorf Kirchenbuch 1750–1803 (churchRegister 200156), Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirche Hannovers, Kirchenkreis Elze-Coppenbrügge, Archion online viewer. Bild 94, pp. 558–559, the “Copulirte” lists of 1764–1770, with 1770 no. 5, the marriage of Johann Heinrich Wesemann “aus Grubenhagen” and Clara Christina Campen (18 November 1770); Bild 47, p. 466, 1767 no. 26, the mill hand Heinrich Weseman[n] as godfather; the baptisms of 1750 to September 1772 (Bilder 3–56), with the 1772 baptism of Johann Conrad Ludewig Wesemann and its godfather Ludewig Küster “aus Salz der Helden.” Also Bild 4, p. 380, 1750 no. 7 (the baptism of Clara Christina Maria, daughter of Johann Wilhelm von Campe and Maria Eleonora Küster); Bild 56 and Bilder 59–60 (the Küster entries of 1772–1775); Bild 90, p. 551 (the marriage of 13 April 1751); Bilder 93–95, pp. 558–560 (the marriage lists of 1764 to 1772, with the notes that no one was married in 1771 or 1772); Bilder 121, 124 and 127 (the Küster burials of 1761, 1763 and 1766); and Bild 133 (the burials of 1772, nos. 23 and 24). Also Bild 55 (1772 no. 1); Bilder 57–60 (the baptisms of 27 December 1772 – 4 May 1775, read entry by entry); Bilder 98–102 (the marriages of 1786–1802, with Bild 101, p. 572, the Alwes and Westermann marriage of 29 August 1798); Bild 169, p. 727 (burials of 1802, no. 14); and Bilder 211, 214, 215 and 216 (the baptisms of 1800–1802).
Burchard and Mundhenke, Die Kopfsteuerbeschreibung der Fürstentümer Calenberg-Göttingen und Grubenhagen von 1689, 13 parts (Hannover and Hildesheim, 1940–1972): Teil 7 (the Ämter Brunstein, Westerhof and Harste with the town of Northeim; p. 10, the Hohnstedt mill and the Amtmann Weesemann, 1686; p. 19, Hinrich Weeseman, Kleinkötner and carpenter of Langenholtensen; Kurt Weseman, cavalryman, at Echte); Teil 11 (the Fürstentum Grubenhagen; p. 85, Hans Waßmann, Erbmüller at Schwiegershausen; p. 152, Herr N. Wesemann at Ebergötzen; the household of the Kommissarius N. Weesemann of Einbeck); Teil 12, contents (p. V), and the edition’s plan on archiv-vegelahn.de. With de.wikipedia, “Amt Westerhof” and “Burg Westerhof,” for the Amt’s Hildesheim period to 1523 and its later place in Calenberg-Göttingen. Also Teil 5 (Amt Lauenstein; p. 38, Jost von Campen, brewer, at Salzhemmendorf) and Teil 7, p. 12 (Franz Küster, Kleinkötner and miller at Vogelbeck).