My Trails into the Past

Once the unification of the various German states in the German Empire in 1871, all areas of the German Empire now had civil registrations. I discovered a new database with images at My Heritage , “ Germany, North Rhine Westphalia (Arnsberg, Detmold, and Münster), Deaths 1874-1938 . ” My Hork family came from the towns of Oberhundem, Kirchhundem, Altenhundem, and Elspe. This database covers those locations. I found quite a few entries for Hork. One entry was for Maria Catharina Hork, who was born Kremer. She married Franz Joseph Hork in 1865 in Elspe. He was the brother of my great-grandfather, Johan Anton Hork. I have found their baptism and marriage records but did not know when they died. So, this is a great database. What I can cipher out of this document (not in the exact order) is: Maria Catharina Hork died on 17 January 1903 in Elspe at 3:30 in the afternoon. Peter Hork reported her death on the eighteen of January. She was sixty-two years old, which matches her birth of 17 Ma...