52 Ancestors: Week 47, Gerhard Dönges

Orginal post: 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks In 1703, Gerhard Dönges transferred a house in Harxheim (now part of Zellertal, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate) to his son also named Gerhard.1 Harxheim and its neighboring villages were former Catholic church estates secularized by the Electoral Palatinate in the 16th century. They were subsequently owned by the University of Heidelberg. The aforementioned house transfer was found in the university's archives. Three years earlier, on 9 November 1700, Gerhard Dönges of Harxheim married Maria Demuth Haÿnen in Kindenheim (now in Landkreis Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate), about 2 1/2 miles southeast of Harxheim.2 This may be the younger Gerhard from the 1703 house transfer. Daimbacherhof (now part of Mörsfeld, Donnersbergkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate), located about 11 miles northwest of Harxheim, was another former church property owned by the University of Heidelberg. In 1715, the lessees of Daimbacherhof, Gerhard Dinges and Michael…

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