Marriage Record

[Ric Rasmussen]

Could I please have some help with this marriage record?

#11 left-hand side

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L94W-YDFT?i=209&wc=M5KZ-K6B%3A357517501%2C357801401%2C358051401%2C358051402&cc=2078555

Thanks,

Ric

[Ole Westermann]

Hi Ric

Onßdagen d 1 Augusti hafde Enckemanden Hans
Graae af Ulmark trolovelße med Giertrud Hemmingßdatt.
Rytter Hans Christians Encke tienende Nils Pedersen
i Kielbyelille. Skifftebref lovet til Brøllups
dagen at fremviisis. Og at saa intet videre er, som
forestaaende Ægteskab kand hindre, Cavrer under-
tegnede Dannemænd
    L P Gr                                   L H S
Lars Pedersen Graae              Lars Hemmingsen
Denne Trolovelse blef ophævet ved Feste-Møens ustadige sind
----- og troløßhed, hvorfore hun skal give 2 mark til de Fattige, betalt.

The 2 last lines tell us, that their betrothal was abolished caused by the changable mind
and faithlessness of the betrothed woman, and she had to pay 2 marks to the poor, which she did.

Ole

[Ric Rasmussen]

Thanks, Ole.  That is very interesting.  I have not encountered a betrothal being cancelled before.  Her husband Rytter Hans Christiansen died in 1734.  She marries again in 1737.  Sounds like she almost got married before that.

Thank you.

[Ric Rasmussen]

Would it be unusual for a previously married woman to be serving someone else?  Within a short period of the death of Rytter Hans Christiansen, he has two children die.  I have not been able to find any other children.  Is it reasonable to suppose that all her (their) children had died so she was in a position to be able to serve someone else?  Or is that assumption wrong?

Ric