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KORTENKAMP FAMILY HISTORY Daniel J. Kortenkamp (September 20, 2009) e- The earliest documented Kortenkamp in this history is Johann ChristophKortenkamp. It is not known where he was born, but he was born about1707. The name of his father is not known; however, his mother?s namewas Christina [maiden name unknown]. Where she was born is not known, butshe was born about 1670, and died sometime after 1748. Information about the Kortenkamp ancestry in Germany was provided in 1995-96 by Joseph Kortenkamp, Herzebrock-Clarholz, There were many Kortenkamp familiesliving in Harsewinkel from 1683 to the 1790s. Johann Christoph Kortenkamp married Anna Maria Westhuss on November 5,1745, in St. Lucia Church, Harsewinkel. Anna Maria Westhus was born about 1725, but where is not known. She did not live in Harsewinkel before her marriage. Johann Christoph and Anna Maria [Westhuss] Kortenkamp lived in the Bauerschaft Oester at Marienfeld (near Harsewinkel). ABauerschaft is a group of farms treated as a village, but with no village center (perhaps, more correctly, a ?farm collective.?). Johann Christoph Kortenkamp was an ?Eigenhörig? (?serf?) to the Cistercian ?Kloster? (monastery) at Marienfeld (established 1185). Johann Christoph Kortenkamp is also listed as a ?Kötter.? Typically, a Kötter was a man on a farm with a little cottage and a little land to help feed his family. They and their family usually had side jobs to supplement their income. Many wives and children spun and wove home-grown flax into linen. Some would make brooms and brushes, and some would knit socks. Theywere peasants, very poor and desperate people. While living at Marienfeld, Johann Christoph and Anna Maria [Westhuss] Kortenkamp had severalchildren: 1. Johan Christoph, baptized March 19, 1748. Died May 3, 1797, Herzebrock, Westphalia. - married Anna Maria Gnegel, August 7, 1782, St. Lucia Church, Harsewinkel. - children: Catherine Elisabeth (died age 3 weeks), Everhard, OttoHenrich, Jacob, Johann Henrich (Elisabeth Strothoff), and Peter Henrich. Johann Christoph Kortenkamp worked as a hired man. Mrs. Johann Christoph (Anna Maria Gnegel) Kortenkamp was baptized March 13, 1763, Herzebrock, Westphalia, Prussia (Germany); daughter of Johann and Anna Catharina (Kerstien) Gnegel. She died July 14, 1798, at Herzebrock. 2. Johann Friderich, baptized January 10, 1751. Died December 26, 1768?, at Harsewinkel? 3. Anna Christina, baptized November 26, 1752. 4. Jacob, baptized August 16, 1756. - married Anna Maria Johanfrans, October 28, 1783, St. Lucia Church, Harsewinkel. - children: Anna Catharina (died in infancy?), Anna Maria, Anna Catharina, Johann Everhard, Ann Elisabeth (Mrs. Tiekmann). 5. Anna Maria, baptized July 25, 1759. Johann Christoph Kortenkamp may have died January 28, 1764, at Marienfeld. It is not known when or where Anna Maria [Westhuss] Kortenkamp died. On October 30, 1770, after the serfs marched on the monastery protesting burdensome taxes and other abuses, the new enlightened abbot of themonastery signed an agreement freeing the serfs. Two-hundred and forty-four serfs signed the agreement. They were now free to hold public offices, join guilds, bake their own bread, brew their own beer, sell their possessions, and move elsewhere. One of the serfs signing the agreement was ?Eberhard Kortenkamp.? It is not known if or how he is related to the Kortenkamps in this history. Werland, Walter. (1965). 1000 Jahre Harsewinkel: Zur Heimatgeschichteder Stadt an der Ems (Harsewinkel?s 1000 years: The local history of the city on the Ems). Münster, Westfalen: Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung. I am grateful to Axel Schmetzke, Stevens Point, WI, who translated two chapters from this book about the revolt of the serfs and their eventual freedom. The name ?Kortenkamp? consists of ?kurz? and ?kamp? (?short? and ?field?). According to correspondence with the Münster Stadtarchiv and withKlaus Bussmeyer, Hamburg, a ?Kortenkamp? was originally the small part of a field where the plow turned around. This was also the small pathway for traveling to and from various fields. On an 1828 map of Mecklenbeck there is a small field named ?Kortenkamp?. The street name probably came from this field. By the way, there is a field next to ?Kortenkamp? named ?Langenkamp? (?long? and ?field?).
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