Catharine Marie Detje was born in Vögelsen on 31 March 1852 as daughter of Heinrich Wilhelm Detje and his wife Dorothee Charlotte nee Putensen, and baptized in Bardowick on 26 April.[1] At a young age she married Johann Nicolaus Lütjens but was widowed when he died in 1873. In 1875, she married cobbler Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Stegen of Mechtersen[2] with whom she had at least two sons. She passed away in Mechtersen on 25 July 1899 and was buried in Bardowick on 28 July.[3]
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