Margaretha Sophia Friederica (Boeckmann) Lange (1823 - 1887)

Born 1 Dec 1823 in Broock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Deutschland

Ancestors

Wife of Henry Christian Frederick Lange — married 24 Oct 1856 in At the residence of John Frederick Lange, Waimea East, New Zealand

Descendants

Died 5 Aug 1887 at age 63 in Nelson, New Zealand

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Sophia (Boeckmann) Lange migrated from Germany to New Zealand.

Biography

Margaretha Sophia Friedericka was born in 1823 in Broock. She was the illegitimate daughter of daylabourer Hans Hinrich Böckmann and Catharina Margaretha Dorothea Westphal.^[1]

According to the Henry Williams Descendants family tree on ancestry.com Margaretha (known as Sophia) had Maria to Johann Harman but they didn't marry. She may have been married to a Heinrich Westphal (?).

She later married Henry Christian Friedrich LANGE on 24 Oct 1856 at Waimea East. The officiating minister was [the Reverend John William Christopher Heine][1] (1814-1900) [German version Johann Wilhelm Christoph Heine]. Their ages on the marriage certificate: Henry = 34 [b. 1822]; Sophia = 33 [b. 1823].

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Sources

1. ↑ Church book Kalkhorst, Norddeutschland: Landeskirchliches Archiv der Evang.-Luth. Kirche > Kirchenkreis Mecklenburg > Kalkhorst > Taufen 1816-1852 Archion image 30

• New Zealand, Marriage Index, 1840-1934 (ancestry.com). Name: Sophia C.M Bockmann Marriage Year: 1856 Spouse: Henry C.F. Lange Folio Number: 56/235.
• BDM NZ Marriage Registration Number: 1856/1910; Bride's Given Name(s): Sophia Cathrina Margretha; Bride's Family Name: Bockmann; Groom's Given Name(s): Henry Christian Frederick; Groom's Family Name: Lange.
• BDM NZ Death Registration Number: 1887/4085; Family Name: Lange; Given Name(s): Sophia; Age at Death: 66Y. www.bdmhistoricalrecords.dia.govt.nz
• Nelson Cemetery Database. Plot Record Details: Record ID: WKOG07032. Surname: LANGE. First names: SOPHIA. Age: 66 years. Date of interment: 07/08/1887. Gender: Female. Cemetery: Wakapuaka. Block: 07. Plot type: Burial. Type Of Grave: Interment. Plot number: 032: Area: OLD GENERAL. Funeral director: A SHONE & CO. Other Interments also in this plot: WKOG07032_A. MCLEAN RONALD. Copyright © 2017 Nelson City Council. http://nelson.govt.nz/services/facilities/cemeteries/cemeteries-search/
• Paperspast website. NELSON EVENING MAIL, VOLUME XXI, ISSUE 184, 5 AUGUST 1887. "DEATH. Lange.— On August 5, 1887, at the Old People's Home, Mrs Sophia Lange, aged 66 years." https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NEM18870805.2.6?query=lange
• New Zealand, Naturalisations, 1843-1981 (ancestry.com). Name: Sophie Maria Margaretha Böckmann, Birth Place: Mecklenburg, Former Nationality: German, Occupation: Housewife, Residence City: Waimea East, Naturalisation Date: May 1856, File Number: 1856/3234.
• Passenger list for ship: Violet. Barque: 496 tons. Captain: Wiseman. Surgeon Superintendent: Dr Bruen. Sailed Deal March 16th 1864 - arrived Nelson July 5th 1864. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/Violet1864.htm
• Ancestry.com public family tree "HENRY WILLIAMS DESCENDANTS" owner: colleeneveyln.
• GEDBAS website. http://gedbas.genealogy.net/person/show/1181268532

See also:

• Broock, Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire [database on-line]. Original data: Erich Uetrecht. Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs. https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10246075
• Peasant Maids, City Women: From the European Countryside to Urban America, edited by Christiane Harzig. Marriage Restrictions and Illegitimacy pp 41-42. “Although the Bund* granted freedom of marriage to all its citizens after July 1, 1869, restrictions continued to be imposed in Mecklenburg. Simply by limiting the number of houses available for families, the nobles continued to exercise control throughout the 1890s. […] But marriage restrictions fell short of achieving their orginal goal to curtail the number of births. All over Germany, illegimate birth rates grew in proportion to the severity of the restrictions imposed and fell only after marriage restrictions had been repealed. In Mecklenburg, illegitimate births peaked in 1850, when 20.9 percent of all babies were born out of wedlock. Between 1845 and 1867, illegitimate births never constituted less than 17 percent of all births. According to another estimate, illegitimate births exceeded 30 percent in 260 villages and 50 percent in 209 villages. What is more, nothing but illegitimate births were reported in 79 villages (54 on nobles’ estates, 20 on government estates, and 5 on estates belonging to monasteries). Such high rates of illegitimacy amply demonstrate that premarital relationships were widespread. Reporting on female labourers in rural Germany in 1905, Marie Wegner found that premarital sex to be common, especially in the state of Mecklenburg. […] In any case, there is ample reason to believe that marriage restrictions and the dilemma of bearing an illegitimate child prompted emigration.” *Norddeutsche Bund (North German Confederation). https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=FlpuDwAAQBAJ