Frau Dorothee Sophie Mierecke (nee Liebe)
(1789-1859)
Dorothee Sophie Liebe was born in Melkow of what is now Sachsen-Anhalt in Germany on the 25th May 1789.
I have not been able to find who her parents were and exactly where they were living on the 11th January 1807 when Dorothee at the age of 17 married Andreas Mierecke, a Leinweber (Linen weaver), in Groß Mangelsdorf.
Dorothee and Andreas remained in Groß Mangelsdorf for a number of years, their first 3 children were born there. Andreas on the 20th November 1808, Gottfried on the 5 December 1811 & Johann Christian on the 26 May 1816.
Sometime over the next 2 years the family moved out to Klein Mangelsdorf, about 5 kms to the north east of Groß Mangelsdorf. Andreas was still working as a Leinweber. Dorothee gave birth to a daughter, also called Dorothee, on the 2nd April 1819.
But just over 3 year later Dorothee gave birth to a stillborn daughter on the 4th May 1822, and then 6 months later her Johann Christian died on the 8th of November. Both children were buried at Klein Mangelsdorf.
Nine months later Dorothee on the 6th September 1823 gave birth to a son who they named Johann Christian in honour of his deceased brother.
The family remained in Klein Mangelsdorf and Dorothee’s husband Andreas continued to work as a Leinweber.
In 1833 Dorothee’s 2 eldest children died – Andreas died in Klein Mangelsdorf on the 9th Mar 1833 from measles at the age of 24. Gottfried died from nerve fever on the 3rd September. He was part of the Prussian army and died in Ascherleben, about 100 kms south of Klein Mangelsdorf.
Ten years later Dorothee was to lose her last son. Johann Christian died in Klein Mangelsdorf on 21 Jan 1843 from fever. He was 19 years old.
The year 1846 brought some joy for Dorothee. Her daughter (her only child still living) got married. On the 15th November Dorothee Sophie Friederike Mierecke, aged 27, married Gottfried Gröseling in the church at Klein Mangelsdorf.
But unfortunately Dorothee’s daughter was to die 3 years later on the 26th November 1849 from “Krämpfe und Schlag, Nach Urteil des Arzte” (Cramps and stroke, According to the doctor's judgment)[1]. She had no children.
Dorothee and her husband Andreas were now alone. After 42 years of marriage they had seen all their children die.
Andreas was still working when at the age of 72 he passed away on the 12th June 1853 in Klein Mangelsdorf. He died from emaciation (the state of being abnormally thin or weak).
Dorothee lived another 6 years in Klein Mangelsdorf before passing away on the 2nd April 1859. She was 69 and died from lung infection. She was buried there, alongside all her family, on the 5th April.
Her life was filled with happiness and loss, happiness in her children, but the sadness and loss in seeing them all predeceased her.
Christian Bauerhorst = Anna Dorothea Gentz
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Maria Bauerhorst (1746-1804) Susanna Bauerhorst (1748-1821)
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Wilhelm Peters (1805-1846)
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Mathilde Peters (1838-
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Theodor Vetter (1866-1943)
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[1] Klein Mangelsdorf Kirchenbuch 29th November 1849
