He married Anna Margaretha Brögberen² on February 8, 1728 in Lingen at the Church of St. Bonifatius.

Jan Hermann died on August 5, 1749, in Laxten.
Anna Margaretha died on October 8, 1749 in Laxten.

They were the parents of the following children:

Catharina Aleidis

was christened on August 7, 1729 in Lingen.
(Sponsor was Catharina Brögber.)³
She married Johannes Heinrich Krieger on November 11, 1749 in Lingen.

Joes Henricus

was christened on August 15, 1731 in Lingen.
(Sponsor was Joes Wesselinck.)⁴

Anna Walburgis

was christened on April 24, 1734 in Lingen.
(Sponsor was Anna Marg. Lübbers.)⁵
She died on May 14, 1743.

Susanna Marg. Aleidis

was christened on August 16, 1736 in Lingen.
(Sponsor was Gesina Aleidis Wessels.)⁶
She married Johannes Hermann Schlichtermann on February 10, 1767 in Lingen.

Maria Gertrudis

was christened on August 16, 1736 in Lingen.
(Sponsor was Maria Gertrudis Brögber .)⁷

Anna Margaretha

was born on June 3, 1739 and christened on the same day in Lingen.
(Sponsor was Euphemia Vedder.)⁸

Wilhelmus Henricus ⁹

was christened on June 7 or July 7, 1743 in Lingen.
(Sponsor was Joes Schulte (?).)¹⁰
He married Euphemia Helena Tÿen on October 5, 1773 in Lingen.

  1. Owing to the fact that some of the records of the Church of St. Bonifatius are incomplete for the period 1680 - 1703, it was not possible to positively locate any records of his baptism or that of his wife.

A marriage which took place on February 8, 1700 in Lingen involved a Henricus Wesselinck and a Grethe Berckensmitt. That marriage was not the first for either one. She may have been originally from Heitel in the parish of Plantlünne and may have died in 1719.

  2. The Trauungsbuch from the Church of St. Bonifatius neither provides any information about the places of their origins nor the names of their parents. However, her parents may have been Joannes Brögber and Walburgis (Wobbeken) Vedder, who had been married on February 10, 1698.

According to Herr Tenfelde, the groom was from Estringen and the bride was from Laxten. Also, Tenfelde stated that this marriage was the first one for each person.

Tenfelde's sources of information are not known, but he may have used information from the Lingen parish of the Reformed Church.

  3. Tenfelde included as sponsors Hindrick Wesselink and Anna Marg. Brögber.

  4. Tenfelde included as a sponsor Anna Marg. Brögber.

  5. Tenfelde included as a sponsor Anna Marg. Brögber.
Anna Marg. Lübbers was from Brockhausen. On May 25, 1732 in Lingen she married Jan Hinrick Brögber, who became the heir to Brögbers Hof in Laxten.

  6. Tenfelde included as a sponsor Margaretha Brögber.
Gesina Aleidis may have been Aleÿde Wessels, the wife of Wilhelm Brögber.

  7. Tenfelde included as a sponsor Margaretha Brögber.

  8. Given the similarity in surnames she may have been related to the child's maternal grandmother.

  9. According to the parish's records it was noted that he had been a witness in 1767 at his sister's marriage and had been a sponsor in 1768 for a child of Johannes Krieger and Catharina Aleidis Wesseling. Also, he was a witness at the 1770 marriage of Joes Henricus Krieger and Euphemia Maria Kuhl.

10. He may have been the husband of Gertrudis Brögber, who had married on September 17, 1730 in Lingen.

If Hermannus had been from Estringen, assume that as a younger son that he would not have been the heir and would have been expected to leave the family's property when the heir married. Hermannus married a woman from Laxten whose family had provided them with a Heuerstelle on or near Brögbers Hof. After the deaths of their parents in 1749, it appears that none of the surviving children remained there.

The strength of the relationship with the Brögber family of Laxten is reinforced by the very evident names of the baptismal sponsors. Assume that Anna Margaretha was one of at the 7 children of Johannes Brögber and Wobbeken Vedder and that at least 2 sisters, the wife of a brother, the husband of a sister, and possibly the wife of another brother were all sponsors for her children. Additionally, another sponsor seems to have been related to Anna Margaretha's maternal side of her family.

Yet there were at the most only 2 sponsors who were named Wesselinck. One reason for such a discrepancy might be that Hermannus' family was not from Laxten which would give more credence to the fact that he was from Estringen. Assume that Hindrick was a brother rather that the father of Hermannus (and the same person who married Aleidis Brögber in 1733) because the child for whom he acted as a sponsor was a daughter.

Assume that Joes (Johannes) was Hermannus' father (Joes' wife was Margaretha Over) and that Joes was not the heir to the property in Estringen, although he had been a son of Wichardus Wesselinck.