Tante Carola - Carolina Margaretha Breyde 1795–1874

Carolina Breyde was the second surviving child of Johann Wilhelm Breyde and Dorothee Elisabeth Knappe of Tangermünde.  Johann worked on the river Elbe as a ship’s hand and later as a helmsman. 

Carola (as she was later called) was born on the night of January 25^th in the Neustadt area of Tangermünde.  She was baptized the very next day and was given the names Carolina Margaretha.  Her godparents were Johann Gottfried Hemprich and his wife Dorothee Elisabeth (nee Schulze), and Frau Dorothee Catherine Freÿe, who was her aunt, her maiden name was Knappe.

Johann and Dorothee had at least 5 children, of which 4 girls survived to adulthood.  Unfortunately the records for the early 1780s are unavailable to me and I cannot confirm if there were more children, but when Johann died in 1819 he had 4 daughters alive.

None of the daughters married young, the eldest Christine Friederike was 35 when she married, then Sophie was 34, and the youngest Johanne was 33. But Carolina never married and spent her life as a Spinnerin in one of the local mills in Tangermünde.

With the onset of her sister’s marriages Carola was called upon to stand as godmother to two of her nephews and nieces.  The first of these happen in 1824 when on the 7^th of June should stood at the altar for her nephew Johann Friedrich Jacob.  When her niece Mathilde Peters was born she again stood at the altar of St. Stephan’s in Tangermünde.  On the 29^th July 1838 along with Frau Catherine Zander, Frau Dorothee Stawesand, Herr Andreas Branfur & Herr Christoph Henning, Carola Breyde stood there described as Jungfrau, as she would be described even on her death 36 years later on January 29^th, 1874 – Jungfrau Carolina Margarethe Breyde.

Johann Wilhelm Breyde (1741-1819) und Dorothee Elisabeth Knappe (1762-1835)

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Carolina Margaretha Breyde (1795-1874)       Sophie Christine Breyde (1796-1868)

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      Theodore Wilhelm Vetter (1866-1943)

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Alan Louis Brady (1916-1995)

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Kevin Reginald Brady (1961-