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- Note (Norman Lee Madsen)
The following is based on research done by Camila Luise Dahl and FlemmingWinther:
Morten Lauridsen Brynch (in Latin: Martin Laurentius Brünchius) was the priest for Åker-Åkirkeby from circa 1604, about whom it is related that he was a drunkard who did not look after the vicarage. Morten tried to exchange the old vicarage for a smaller building nearby, but did not succeed to do so before his death in 1624. The new priest, Didrich Carstensen Colding, built a whole new vicarage, which was later used by his successors.
Rasmus Pedersen Ravn, who according to Dr. Zarhtmann wasn't even on Bornholm until the late 1620s, is described in a letter regarding the property of the vicarage as having been involved in the building of the new vicarage. According to the Hübertz documents there was a dispute about the extent of the old vicarage's grounds, and Rasmus Ravn was called in because he was a witness to the agreement.
Rasmus Ravn isn't thought to have been on Bornholm at the time of the original exchange circa 1624, and he doesn't seem to have had any connection to Åker until he took over as "Sognedegn" (Clerk) in 1654; soa possible explanation is that he was already then (or soon to be) the son-in-law of the priest for Åker-Åkirkeby? [According to "SjællandsStifts Degnehistorie" by Anders Petersen (published in København in 1899) Rasmus graduated circa 1624, then became the Rector for Nexø, and from 1640 the Rector for Rønne.] We know that in 1646 Michel Nielsen Nosebye referred to Rasmus as being his "svoger" (brother-in-law), and at that time was married to Christine. A note in "Series Pastorum" tells us that Michel Nielsen Nosebye was not elected "Provst" (Dean) circa 1631, after Jens Pedersen Borringholm, because he had been married three times in 1626 (which was a plague year) - however, the names of these wives was not recorded. It is written that Michel Nielsen Nosebye was married and widowed a total of 5 times. Aage Dahl interpreted the note by Jacob Prahl as saying he was married 2 times, and mentions no date; he also has Peder Jensen Borringholm as Dean until circa 1631. Whereas J.A.Jørgensen has Jens Pedersen Borringholm as Dean from circa 1623 until themid-1640s.
There is no direct evidence about how old Didrich Carstensen Colding was when he married Christine Staffensdatter; further, the date of their marriage in 1624 is merely a construction based on that being the year he became priest for Åker-Åkirkeby (however it must have happened before 1632). According to Aage Dahl, Didrich Carstensen Colding was a student in Roskilde Latin School in 1620: "Theodorus Chastenii, ex schola Roëschildensi" (Birket-Smith, bd. I, p. 39, M. Herman). Further, he is not mentioned anywhere as a schoolmaster, chaplan, etc. before coming to Åker-Åkirkeby in 1624; so if the post as priest was his first position then he must have been fresh from university and not much older than in his mid- to late-twenties (thus probably born circa 1595).
If Didrich Carstensen Colding had not brought with him a wife, but instead married the widow (name unknown) of his predecessor Morten Brynch, then her children were his step-children. Rasmus Ravn's wife Mette's birth year of circa 1607 places her in the time of Morten Brynch. Morten Brynch first came to Bornholm circa 1604, and he certainly could have married a local Bornholmer girl and thus be the father of Mette.
Christine must have married Michel Nielsen Nosebye sometime between 1626-46, and her youngest child was born in 1653 - so Christine must have been born between 1605-30. Thus Christine could be the daughter of either Morten or Didrich: depending on when she married Michel Nielsen Nosebye - was it in 1626 or as late as 1645?
Didrich Carstensen Colding was likely a young man when he came to Bornholm to take over as "Sognepræst" in 1624 after the death of Morten Brynch. Morten's widow (unknown) could very easily have been born circa 1585, and thus about 40 years old when Morten Brynch died in 1624. So possibly Mette (born c.1607) is the daughter of Morten Brynch, and Christine is the daughter of Didrich Colding and Morten Brynch's widow (thus born c.1625) - making Christine the younger 1/2-sister of Mette (making Rasmus Ravn "svoger" to Michel Nielsen Nosebye in 1646).
If this is the case, then Michel Nielsen Nosebye and Christine could not have been married in 1626, but rather circa 1645. This makes sense, since the only 2 children we know of for Michel and Christine are: Karen (born c.1645-50) and Didrich (born 1653) - otherwise there is a gap of 20 years between marriage (1626) and known children (c.1645-53). Of course,there was the plague year of 1654 which killed so many people, so possibly their older children all died of the plague? The reliability of a note about Michel Nosebye's marriages written 100 years after the event is rather questionable.
It seems probable that Mette is the daughter of Morten Brynch - but there is no solid evidence for this yet (or perhaps ever). The fact that Rasmus Ravn had some involment in the dispute over the vicarage for Åker-Åkirkeby certainly suggests that he was drawn into it because his wife's family (her father, and later step-father) were involved in the matter.
This would mean that if Michel Nosebye was married 2 times in 1626 then both wives names are unknown. This would make Christine his 4th wife, for a total of six marriages! Most likely there is an error, and it was just his 1st wife Anne Frandsdatter who died in 1626, he remarried in 1626 and his 2nd (unknown) wife died circa 1645. Both Didrich Carstensen Colding and Michel Nielsen Nosebye could have become widowers in 1626. Didrich's 1st wife (the widow of Morten Brynch) might have died circa 1626 (and he then married Christine Staffensdatter). And (the man who would later become Didrich's son-in-law) Michel Nielsen Nosebye's wife Anne Frandsdatter died 1626, and he also remarried in 1626. Hense the later confusion over the year 1626!
The notes made in the "Series pastorum" in 1738 by Jacob Nielsen Prahl, the priest for Svaneke-Ibsker (who was also a writer and teacher), is generally considered of high quality. Most of the old documents are now lost, but Prahl may have based his entries on now lost documentation, so maybe the note is supposed to be understood as Michel Nosebye having tried to become "Provst" (Dean) after Jens Pedersen Borringholm stepped down in the mid-1640s, but wasn't considered because he had already been married three times by then, and then mentions the year 1626 because there was (now lost) documentation that Michel Nosebye had lost a wife and been remarried that year? Possibly Prahl simply meant that Michel Nosebye didn't become Dean in the mid-1640s because of three marriages, among them one having taken place in 1626? Especially considering the fact that at that time it was so common for a widow/widower to remarry very quickly - often within 2 months.
Possibly the confusion/error came later because Michel later married Didrich's daughter Christine? Possibly both deaths and marriages in 1626were later (erroneously) attributed to Michel Nielsen Nosebye? Michel's 2nd (unknown: Karen?) wife might not have died until circa 1645, it was then that he married Didrich's daughter Christine? Possibly the real reason he was denied the position of Dean was because it was considered that a young woman barely out of her teens would not make a proper wife for Bornholm's Dean; there must have been a few middle aged, dignified priest wives who weren't too happy about the possibility of being made lesser in rank than a woman 20 plus years their junior!
It would also explain why none of Mette's children are named Didrich, and why 2 of her grandsons are named Didrich [possibly named after their cousin Didrich Michelsen Funch (1653-1711), the "Byskriver" (Notary) for Åkirkeby?]. And why Christine named a son Didrich in 1653 - after her father!
Also, it would explain why the name Funch is used by the descendants of Christine and Margrethe (and possibly the identity of the mother of the Funchs in Nexø?) - namely that they are all daughters of Didrich Carstensen Colding. Possibly Didrich had a Funch ancestor - his mother or father, or one of his grandparents? And why none of Rasmus Pedersen Ravn's wife Mette's children or grandchildren used the name Funch. Although (to make things complicated) one great-grandson, Lars Didrichsen (1728-1782), did use the name Funch when he was married in 1772; however, his name is just given as Lars Didrichsen for his burial record in 1782.
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto,Ontario, Canada, 12 Jun 2016. [1]
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