Johann Gottlieb Schulz and his wife Anne Louise nee Krüger received title to 41 Morgen and 31 Ruthen confirmed by the General Commission of Posen December 15, 1847 and registered February 29, 1852.
Prior to this date a complicated series of transactions are recorded to confirm the couple’s rights to the property.
An earlier subdivision of Property 5 was recorded containing a house, barn, garden and eight Morgen of land as that it had been earlier Property 4. Samuel Kumke and his wife Anna Dorothea nee Kassner purchased the smaller property from his parents Peter Kumke and Anna Maria nee Magdans by contract on March 19, 1829 for 300 Thaler and a life estate. Peter Kumke was one of the Polajewo Hauland residents in the 1793 census.
Samuel and Anna Dorothea Kumke’s marriage must have been troubled. The couple were granted a divorce on April 11, 1834. Prior to the finalization of the proceedings several other court hearings are recorded for the property. On January 10, 1832 a hearing was held to establish the elder Kumke’s rights to the property. At that hearing two witnesses confirmed that Peter Kumke had previously purchased the property from the previous owner Schoening. Divorce proceeding hearings were held on April 10 and August 10, 1833. Samuel Kumke’s title to the property was registered on December 12, 1833 and confirmed by notarial deed at the close of the divorce proceedings on April 11, 1834.
Following his divorce Samuel Kumke married Anna Caroline Sommerfeldt. On January 20, 1836 the couple sold the property to Johann Gottlieb and Anna Louise Schulz for 420 Thaler. The Schulz’s owned Farm 24 in Gembitz Hauland.
Peter Kumke had died prior to June 1, 1830. The life estate that his son Samuel had granted in the original contract was still in effect for his mother when he sold the property to Gottlieb and Louise Schulz. When they purchased property in 1836 Anna Maria nee Magdan Kumke maintained her rights to live on the property.
At the time of the likely marriage of the couple’s oldest daughter, Anna Christina (1825- 1895) to Friedrich Wilhelm Wegner (1818-1879) the parents through an inheritance contract from January 24 and August 21, 1845 sold 4 Morgen and 121 Ruthen along the property of Property 7 owned by Michael Henke. This contract was registered on October 12, 1845 and the new partition received the property number 8.
The Property subdivision 5 earlier 4 was closed on February 29, 1852 and the property became Property 5.
On July 22, 1854 the Schulzes received another 27 Morgen and 79 Ruthen from the Radomski Estate.
Johann Gottlieb Schulz died prior to August 2, 1855. On that date his widow Louise sold the property to Johann Martin Wegner for 1,750 Thaler. Property in Gembitz Hauland reserved for retirement home for Louise was included in the transaction.
Prior to registering this contract and transferring the property Gottlieb’s estate had to be closed. Gottlieb and Louise had at least six children: Anne Christine (1825-1895), Johann Gottlieb (1828-1911), Beate Louise (1834-1918), Wilhelmine (born 1837), Friedrich Daniel (1840-1909) and Ernestine Henriette (1842-1920). The estate was settled by agreement on July 10, 1857 and registered on October 1, 1857. At the time of the father’s death Anne Christine had already received her inheritance at the time of her marriage. Johann Gottlieb had likely also received his inheritance when he entered is majority. In the sale contract with Martin Wegner each of the minor children received 179 Thaler, 12 Siblergrosschen, and 3 Pfennig. When the contract and estate was closed in 1857 the four minors received another 20 Thaler, 1 Silbergrosschen, and 9 Pfennig.
Both inheritances were not paid until the sale contract was registered on November 20, 1857. By this time Beate Louise had emigrated to Wisconsin. In the records her brother Gottlieb is the guardian of her share. She likely received her share of the estate earlier to finance her trip.
At the time of the purchase of the property Johann Martin Wegner (1816-1874) was married to Anna Catharina nee Hoeft (1796-1865). Martin and Catharina were married in 1841 in Jankendorf. Catharina had previously been married to Andreas Gustav Schendel. She had two daughters Anna Rosina (1834-1912) and Anna Dorothea Schendel (1837-1897) from her first marriage.
Martin and Catharina did not register the property jointly until April 19, 1860. A week prior to that the couple had sold 10 Morgen from the property to Friedrich Wegner for 295 Thaler. This partition became Property 11.
Later that summer the couple sold another 15 Morgen of the property to Michael Henke for 450 Thaler on July 16, 1860. This partition became Property 12.
Catherina nee Hoeft Wegner died of dropsy on April 7, 1865. Prior to finalizing the estate on October 12, 1865 Martin sold another 20 Morgen of the property for 600 Thaler to Wilhelm Kurtz and Henriette nee Hahnefeld from Gembitz Hauland. This partition became Property 18. The property that had been 41 Morgen was now approximately 23 Morgen.
Martin Wegner died March 16, 1874. Three days prior to his death he signed a will to give the property to his step-daughter Rosine Schendel. Her title to the property was registered on September 9, 1874.
While Rosine Schendel never married she gave birth to at least 10 children between 1851 and 1873. She transferred the property on July 9, 1877 to her oldest son Julius Schendel (born 1854) prior to his marriage to Albetine Pauline Messal (born 1854) on July 6, 1878. Rosine maintained a life estate on the property until her death in 1912.
Julius and Pauline Schendel sold the property to Albert Gustav Dahlke (1856-1941) and his wife Emma nee Raatz (1866-1939) on May 20, 1887.
The Dahlkes transferred the property on July 28, 1920 to their daughter Hertha Wanda (born 1899) prior to her marriage to Paul Gustav Erich Nikolai (born 1890) on August 23rd of that year. The property was registered as joint property of the newlyweds a week later.