Property 3 – Polajewohauland

Johann Ludwig Henke and his wife Johanne Fedder received title to 50 Morgen and 21 Ruthen confirmed by the General Commission of Posen on December 15, 1847 and registered on February 29, 1852.

On July 22, 1854 the couple received another 16 Morgen and 165 Morgen from the Radomski estate.

Ludwig Henke was born in January 1803 to Michael Henke and Maria Elizabetha nee Henke likely on Property 7.  The records do not explain how he came into possession of Property 3.  Potentially from his mother who was also a Henke.

Friedericke Johanna Fedder was born in 1808 in Gembitz Hauland according to her death record of March 28, 1889.  The birthplace may be in error.  While there were other Fedders in Gembitz Hauland that were born in the same time as Johanna their records say they were born in Wischin Hauland and then moved to Gembitz Hauland.

Ludwig and Johanna had at least four children: Johann Michael (1834-1877), Martin Ludwig (1837-1918), Ernestine Wilhelmine (1842-1922), and Dorothea Louise (1847-1879).

On February 20, 1867 Ludwig and Johanna contracted to sell the property to their son Martin Ludwig for 1,420 Thaler and a life estate.  The father was sick with tuberculosis at the time of the contract being signed.  He died one month later on March 23, 1867.

Martin Ludwig later married Pauline Madwig (1846-1923).  The couple transferred ownership of the property on July 10, 1902 to their son Johann August Henke (born 1872) upon his marriage to Hulda Amanda Kropp (1873-1924) from Gembitz Hauland.  The couple held the property until 1935 when the widowed father transferred it his daughter Olga upon her marriage to Hugo Lauchstadt.  They held the property until the family was expelled following the Second World War.  This property was in the Henke family for at least 100 years.