First name: Trine

Last name: none

Father: Klawe (son of Klawe)

Mother: Trine

Birth: 1803, Baž Kauliņu, Zalenieki

Baptism: 1803, Zalenieku Lutheran Church

Confirmation: unknown

Marriage: Geddert, 1832, Reņči Jahna, Jekabnieku, Zalenieku Lutheran Church

Children: Trine (1833-1834), Greete (1835-?), Kristaps (1838-after 1894)

Death: 2-Apr-1856, Baž Kauliņu, Zalenieki

Burial: unknown

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Trine was born in 1803 at Baž Kauliņu farm to parents Klawe & Trine. Klawe & Trine were the managers of this farm in the late 1700s into the early 1800s. Trine is an elder sister to Anne, Dāvis Rozenbergs’s mother. Trine’s siblings were as follows:

• Lawize (married Gulbis), born 1793, Baž Kauliņu farm, died after 1857
• Liese, born 1795, Baž Kauliņu farm
• Greete (married Vigants), born 1797, Baž Kauliņu farm, died 1868, Daukšu farm
• Kristaps Budien, born 1800, Baž Kauliņu farm, died after 1857
• Anne (marries Geddert Rozentals/Rozenbergs), born 1805, Baž Kauliņu farm, died 1832, Reņču Jahna farm, Jekabnieku
• Ans Budien, born 1808, Baž Kauliņu farm, died after 1857
• Janis, born 1811, Baž Kauliņu farm, died 1811, Baž Kauliņu farm

There were Revision Lists for this family in 1797, 1811 and 1826. The 1811 Revision List does not include females so Trine is not listed. But the 1826 Revision List has her name listed. This farm census list shows that the old manager, Klawe (son of Klawe) had died in 1825. This was Trine’s father. The eldest son Kristops had moved to the other Kauliņu farm since the last census in 1811 and the youngest son, Ans, is 15 years old.

The current manager is Indriks. This man was the husband of Trine’s eldest sister, Lawize. They would eventually take the surname Gulbis. Indriks lives here with his wife (Lawize) and their 4 sons and 2 daughters. Also living with them is a 76-year-old widow named Liese who I have not yet identified. Plus Trine, Trine’s widowed mother. Trine and her sister Anne are listed as being unmarried maidens. Their ages are not correct but that was very common in these lists. It would depend on who was giving the information and how much they really knew about this family.

When Anne died, just after Dāvis’s birth in 1832, her widowed husband, Geddert, needed to re-marry. Within a month of Anne’s death, Geddert married her sister, Trine. So Trine was both Dāvis’s step-mother and his maternal aunt.

In 1833, Trine and Geddert have their first child together, a daughter also named Trine. The family is living at Vitrupas Jahna farm at this time. You can see this family in the 1833 Revision List for Vitrupas Jahna farm in Jekabnieku.

By 1834, they are living at Vitrupas Mattis farm where their little baby Trine died.

Still living at Vitrupas Mattis farm, a 2nd child is born, a daughter named Greete, in 1835.

By Feb-1838 the family is living at Stuļģi Polu Dahwa farm in Jekabnieku, when a son is born, Kristops. In the church baptism record Kristops is born with the surname ‘Rosenthal’. This is the first written record of any version of this name for the family.

There is no further record of Geddert and Trine and their children until 1855 in a Civil Register List for the Zalenieku/Jekabnieku area farms. In the listing for Baž Kauliņu farm there is a couple named ‘Geddert & Trine Grossman’. I believe that this couple is actually Geddert & Trine Rozentals/Rozenbergs. There is no other evidence for a ‘Grossman’ family in the area and no where else in the Civil Register List is there a Geddert & Trine Rozentals/Rozenberg listed. Names were fairly fluid at that time and mistakes are common. Here is the list for Baž Kauliņi farm in the Register (which is not available online):

Grunhof (Zalenieku) Baž Kauliņi farm:

• manager, Ans Gulbis & his wife Lihse
• Krisjohn Seemel
• young man, Dave Gulbis
• young man, Janne Radsin
• maiden, Greete Lapsa
• maiden, Trihne Weisberg
• maiden, Greeta Radsin
• farm worker, Janne Mesengall & his wife Lihse
• farm worker, Geddert Grossman & his wife Trihne
• widow, Lihse Radsin
• widow, Lawize Gulbis, manager’s mother

The widow, Lawize, who is listed as the ‘manager’s mother’ was the eldest sister of Anne & Trine (Geddert’s wives). Ans Gulbis (the current farm manager), is Lawize’s son.

Dave Gulbis was the youngest son of Lawize, so is a brother to manager Ans.

There are 3 people listed with the family name ‘Radsin’. This is interesting because in 1859/1860 Geddert will marry his third wife, Anna Rudzis/Radsin. Anna is the connection to my husband’s family. I have not had much success at mapping out this Radsin/Rudzis family but I suspect that Janne, Greete and Lihse on this list must be connected. That would explain how young Anna and Geddert knew each other.

Only a few months after this Civil Register List was made Trine died. She died in April-1856. In her death record she is listed as living back on Baž Kauliņi farm with her farm-worker husband, Geddert. They are using the name ‘Rozenberg’ here which is a change from ‘Rozentals’ when their son Kristops was born in 1838.