Lübeck, Reddel, and Kebschull from Kreis Stolp

These three families include some of the oldest from this region of Pomerania that we've been able to document, and all three lines eventually meets up with the Gohr family. But in the meantime the nine children of Christoph Lübeck and Christina Reddel include multiple marriages with Kebschull brides and bridegrooms so they're included here too. At right is Ida Scheunemann Kebschull, who settled in Montana with her husband Otto Kebschull, with two of her grandchildren, Gladys and Leo Peterson.

Lübeck

Records in this area and era can be spotty or even nonexistent, and that's certainly the case of Christoph Lübeck, whose birth and death years are known to us only by an estimate.

Heidi Steeves, a researcher on Ancestry.com, has proposed a theory that Christoph had a brother or half-brother Johann Friedrich Lübeck based on appearances of Christoph and his wife Christina as godparents to Johann's children with wife Eleanora Loshin. This could be an indicator of a relationship.

We can estimate that Christoph was born between 1770 and 1775 based on his estimated marriage date to Christine Reddel around 1800. Their first known child, Ernestine Wilhelmine, was born in August 1801. Their nine children, seven daughters and two sons, were all born between 1801 and 1822. Because Kreis Stolp records are unavailable in the early 1800s we have had to use marriage and/or death records to estimate birth years.

Reddel

With Christine Reddel we've had more luck because the records from her birthplace, Neu Jugelow, were included with the town of Lupow in the government district of Köslin (today Koszalin in Poland). We have a copy of Christine's baptism record from 1778 in the nearby parish of Lupow: Christine was baptized on 27 November 1778, the daughter of Michael Reddel and Dorothea Gowitzschen. Two godparents listed have the surname Jawke, suggesting that they have some connection to this family. And right above Christina's baptism entry is another baptism with a Maria Gowitzschen as a godparent. A sister to Dorothea, perhaps?

Michael and Dorothea do not have entries in the Lupow parish records for their own baptisms or marriage so the best we can do is estimate their birth years as about 1750 or so, since most men from this period were married between 25 and 30 years old. Dorothea could be a bit younger.

Christina Reddel married Christoff Lübeck about 1800. Records in Büdow, Kreis Stolp aren't available this early but their first child, Ernestine Wilhelmine, was born in August 1801 in Büdow. Eight more children were born to this couple through 1822.

Christoff's origins are a mystery. According to Heidi Steeves it's possible that he may be a brother or other close relative of a Johann Lübeck based on his appearance as a godparent to Johann Lübeck's child and grandchild. Often family members acted as godparents without being specifically identified as such.

In our family, Christoff and Christina's daughter Emilie Louise Lübeck married Wilhelm Heinrich Gohr, so that explains the Gohr/Lübeck connection.

Kebschull/Koepschel

Kebschull people populate our tree from multiple platforms, with the result that we could be related to more of them than the documents reveal.

• We have verified DNA connections with Albertine Kebschull or Koepschel who was born in 1831 in Klein Nossin to Martin Friedrich Kebschull. She and her husband Carl Gustav Baldt emigrated to Sandusky County, Ohio with some of their children.
• We have DNA as well as documented connections to the family of Carl Kebschull, son of Georg Kebschull and Anna Maria Wenzlaff, born in 1803 also in Klein Nossin, who married one of our Lübeck ancestors, Friederike Henriette Lübeck.
• Another Kebschull, Friedrich Wilhelm, born in 1824 to Johann Jacob Kebschull and Ephrosine Meyer, married another Lübeck lady, Ernestine Charlotte. One of their descendants, Otto Carl Kebschull, emigrated to Montana and established a prosperous farm there. We have DNA connections to this family too.
• A Wilhelm Kebschull, whose parentage is as yet unknown, married yet another of the Lübeck daughters, Ludowike, and was a regular participant as a godparent to other Kebschull and Lübeck-related infants.
• We are probably related to the Kebschull family of Chicago: Adeline Misch Kebschull and Gustav Kebschull. Gustav was the son of a Friedrich Kebschull, who himself was the son of Johann Kebschull and Christine Baldt. We cannot yet prove whether this Baldt line was the same as that of Carl Gustav Baldt (see first entry above), but we're working on it.

Suffice it to say that this is a line rich in Kebschull folks and we likely have multiple connections to them all. More research will help us explore this line.