♀Anna Brotass

Anna Brotass was a woman of Neukirch parish in Kreis Niederung, East Prussia^W, known from her marriage to Johann Degling in 1736 and as the mother named at the baptisms of three sons in its Evangelical church register between 1739 and 1741. She was the fifth great-grandmother of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through her son Andreas Degling (born about 1740).

Marriage

The register of Neukirch records their marriage on 13 September 1736: “Sponsus: Johann Dögling”, “Sponsa: Anna Br..assin”, the bride’s surname only partly legible. Read together with the baptisms of 1740 and 1741, where it looks like Br-o/a-tazin, it gives Brotassin or Brotazin, the feminine forms of a surname Brotass, with the vowels uncertain.

Sons

On the second Sunday after Epiphany, 18 January 1739, a first known son, Christian, was baptized at Neukirch; the register writes the father as Johann Dögling and the mother as Elisabeth only. Her full name was evidently Anna Elisabeth, since the other entries call her Anna. On Septuagesima^W Sunday, 14 February 1740, a second son, Johann Andreas, was baptized at Neukirch; the register, which spells the surname Dögling, names his parents as Johann Dögling and Anna. On the sixteenth Sunday after Trinity, 17 September 1741, a third son, Johann Michael, was baptized at Neukirch, his parents again entered as Johann Degling and Anna. The son baptized in 1740 is probably the Andreas Degling who married Maria Ruhin at Neukirch in 1765 and who, as Andreas Daegling, aged 56, married Anna Sophia Riechertin there on 10 November 1797: he is the only Andreas Degling of those years in the parish index, and the age given in 1797 fits the baptism to within a year. Johann Michael was probably the Johann Michael Degling who married Lowisa Ruhin at Neukirch in 1766. The parents of Johann and Anna, and the dates of their deaths, have not been found.

Notes

Family trees online call her Anna Elisabeth Brokoppin. The given name Anna Elisabeth now has record support from the baptism of 1739, but the double letter in the marriage entry is ss, not pp, so the register does not support the surname Brokoppin. The name Brokopin belongs to the wife of a later Michael Daegling, married in 1778.