#52ancestors No. 20 – Elise Maria Rudolfine Koop

It is time for my next ancestors in the 52 ancestors in 52 weeks challenge.

Meet Elise Maria Rudolfine KOOP, the wife of my 2nd great grand uncle. Which technically makes her my 2nd great grand aunt 😉

Elise was born on August 11, 1883 (Happy Birthday, Auntie ;)) in Upahl in the parish of Diedrichshagen, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany.

Here you can see her baptism record:

baptism record Elise Koop

She was the middle child of in total five children born into the marriage of the brick layer Hans Joachim Friedrich Koop and his wife Wilhelmine Louise Henriette née KRUSE.

As you can see from the record, she was baptized on August 19, 1883 in the church of Diedrichshagen.

In the same church she got confirmed into the lutheran religion on April 3, 1898. The record below is the according church record (highlighted in blue) – her father is stated as deceased.

confirmation Elise Koop

On January 8, 1904 she married the worker August Heinrich Johann WARNKE from Kastahn, a village in the same parish.

wedding record Elise Koop & August Warnke

As you can see, her day of baptism is given as birthday in the wedding record. As this is a secondary record always watch out for the primary record to verify a data you’ve found.

The couple had nine children born between 1904 and 1919:

• Werner Johann Hermann Christian, * March 26, 1904
• Paul Friedrich Wilhelm, * June 22, 1905
• Hans Hermann Richard Wilhelm, * July 1, 1907
• Bernhard Hans Wilhelm, * July 19, 1908
• Amy Dorothea Sophia, * September 17, 1909
• Mathilde Bertha Dora, * October 20, 1910
• Lisbeth Hertha Johanna, * April 21, 1913
• Richard Ludwig Martin, * August 22, 1915
• Olga Minna Emma, * October 3, 1919

This is the 1919 census record for the family:

census 1919

Elise died on December 22, 1953 in Upahl and got laid to rest on the cemetary of Diedrichshagen where I found her gravestone:

gravestone Warnke & Koop