Source basis
The episode is based on Family Chronicle, Volume 2, including the church-register entries evaluated there. Information from FaZiT also formed an important basis for the research.
Friemann
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Season 2 · Episode 1 · G15 · The Friemanns in Essen-Steele
A marriage changes the family story—from the Friemann farm in Altenbochum to Essen-Kray-Leithe
The audio companion to the first of six generations in the Essen-Steele chapter. The episode is spoken in German; this page provides English context and source information.
Context: This story is based on our family chronicle and historical sources. Connections not directly documented are reconstructed in narrative form.
About this episode
When a marriage opens a new path
This audio story explores how a marriage can become a turning point in a family’s history.
At its center is the journey from the Friemann farm in Altenbochum to Essen-Kray-Leithe. The episode connects the family chronicle with its historical and local setting.
Context: Georg Heinrich Friemann and Anna Gertrud Grüggel are also presented in the Essen-Steele chapter.
Go to this generation in the Essen-Steele chapter →The narrative form condenses the material. The documented research and its sources remain authoritative for genealogical details.
Key facts and family background
1736–1809
Georg Heinrich came from the Friemann farming family in Altenbochum. Anna Gertrud Grüggel was a widow with five children on the Schulte Ising farm. Their marriage in 1760 brought together two lives and two families; they had three more children together.
Basis: Family Chronicle, Volume 2, and the church-register entries evaluated there
- Georg Heinrich
- June 1736 – 18 February 1809
- His parents
- Heinrich Friemann the Younger · Anna Elisabeth Wembers
- Anna Gertrud
- widow of Johann Albert Schulte Ising
- Marriage
- 15 July 1760 · St. Laurentius in Steele
- Family
- five children from Anna’s first marriage · three children together
- Farm role
- resident farmholder at Schulte Ising in Kray-Leithe
Supporting material
Sources and transcript
German transcript
The editorially reviewed transcript reproduces the German spoken content. Clear recognition errors in names, places, and specialist terms were corrected.
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