Peter Hinrich ROHDE

German Lutheran parish register page. The visible target entry is numbered 53 and appears to begin with the child name Carl Heinrich Kahler, with parents/sponsors in Kurrent script. I cannot see Peter Hinrich Rohde in the visible entry. This should not be used as Peter Hinrich Rohde birth evidence without a correct image or row.

German Lutheran register page headed around 1835. One visible entry names Peter Hinrich Rohde and Dorothea Elisabeth/Christina Bartelmann together, apparently as parents in a baptism entry. The child name and full wording are difficult to read in this downloaded frame. Use as cautious supporting evidence that Peter Hinrich Rohde and Dorothea Bartelmann appear together in Lübeck church records, not as Peter’s own 1811 birth/baptism record.

Lübeck citizenship register page, folio 96, entries 159-178. Entry 168: Rohde, Peter Hinrich. Birth date/place fields read as born 17 Oct 1811, Lübeck. Occupation/status field appears to identify a tanner/Rotlöscher or related trade; exact wording is difficult but aligns with other Rohde tanner sources. The entry belongs to the Lübeck citizenship/burgher register and supports Peter Hinrich Rohde as a Lübeck-born citizen/tradesman. Some witness/document columns are too small to transcribe confidently from this image.

Compound family-history booklet source: Carole A. Rohde, From Tanning to Panning, August 1992. Extracted/transcribed pages in this manifest include foreword p002, Rohde ancestry p007, Eschenburg ancestry p008, Bridget Partridge/Pedro/Passow p039, August Ashlen p068, August/Jane p069, and Bob/August/Carl p070. Use the page-level entries for verbatim page transcripts and image captions.

FOREWORD. My interest in family history began many years ago, and indeed on my first visit to Germany in 1965 I tried without success to locate family members. Although I visited Lubeck, I had been led to believe our family came from Kiel and my research was made there. Genealogy is an interesting but at times frustrating hobby, and over the years the books and photos have often been packed up and put out of sight until a new snippet of information renews the interest. In the mid seventies Uncle Jack Rohde (Morwell) visited us and wrote down an address, as the one he thought he used to write to his cousin Marcus in Germany as a young lad. Handwritten address shown: “64 Hundestrasse / Lubeck” and “Weiter Lohberg 4” [handwriting/number uncertain]. Peter Rohde was the ancestor who came to Australia but to find a record of his death proved most difficult. Supposedly buried in Avoca, the old burial register was checked but no entry found. Several five year searches were conducted by the register of births, deaths and marriages, but again no result. It was in 1986 when records were released on microfiche that cousin Ian Rohde and I found the entry at the Melbourne library. Peter had died between Christmas - New Year 1864, buried in Avoca, it was never entered in the burial register. In 1986 I hired a researcher in Hamburg and amongst the information sent was the above address. She later confirmed the Weiter Lohburg address as that of Rohde’s from a 1927 Lubeck address book. She also obtained certificates of Peter Hinrich’s baptism, his marriages, and children’s baptisms and translated them. She explained Peter’s second wife Sophia Ost was born in St Petersburg, Russia which was the residence of the Tsar until 1917 and that many Germans lived in St Petersburg and much trading was done between the ports. Ships laden with salt from nearby Luneberg would sail from Lubeck and return with skins and fur from Russia, as tanners they would have got their supplies from Russia. The Lubeck Genealogy group provided enclosures for the Rohde and Eschenburg ancestors, confirmed 64 Hundestrasse as the tannery address, and supplied context about the Corporation of Tanners of Lubeck and its records from 1400 to 1865. Later paragraphs describe further Germany visits, Tilly’s grave in Lubeck, the house in Weiter Lohberg, tannery building in Hundestrasse, and contact with Berthold Rohde and Australian cousins.

ENCLOSURE 1. Generation I: Claus Hinrich Rohde, “Arbeitsmann”, died 1791 in May (Lubeck); married 1735, 7th November, Margaretha Dorothea Braasch. Generation II: Marcus Hinrich Rohde, Rotloscher in der Hundestrabe, baptised 1741, June 15th (St. Jacobi), died 1806 April 1st; married 1766, December 4th, Anna Elsche Eschenburg, baptised 1743, March 17th, died 1815 November 19th; 10 children among them. Generation III: Johann Peter Rohde, Rotloscher in der Krahenstrabe, baptised 1781, January 23rd (Marienkirche), died 1830 in September; married 1805, June 27th, Maria Dorothea Krumbecke (“Hochzeit in ihrem haus”); 1 daughter, 2 sons. Generation IV: Peter Hinerich Rohde, born 1811, 17th October; Rotloscher; Citizen at Lubeck 1834, May 27th; married 1835 Dorothea Christina Elsabe Bertelsmann, born 1814 January 23rd, died 1845 December 9th; married 1845 Sophia Dorothea Ost, born St Petersburg (now Leningrad), daughter of Gotthard Hermann Heinrich Ost and Johanna born Erichsen.