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Schilling Family, Manor Owners in Estland and Kurland
Repository
Ajalooarhiiv
Estonian Historical Archives
Tartu,
Estonia
www.eha.ee
Record group
| Schilling Family, Manor Owners in Estland and Kurland | ||
| Perekond Schilling, Eesti- ja Kuramaa mõisnikud | ||
| Reference code | : | 2041 |
| Period | : | 1478-1934 |
| Extent | : | 188 items |
Abstract
This record group contains material relating to several manors as well as to the personal lives and professional careers (as officers) of their owners and others: biographic documents, correspondence, financial records, ownership documents, contracts, maps and filed papers, among other records. In addition to the papers of the Schilling family, the materials include documents concerning other families they were related to.
Relevant contents
| Period | : | 1700 - 1763 |
| Countries involved | : | Estonia, The Netherlands, Various countries |
| Languages | : | High German |
Among scattered files with miscellaneous financial records, the following items are relevant:
- 120: Financial documents (primarily bonds) from the period 1652-1763, which include Herman Adrian Römer's debt to the merchant Cornelius von zur Mühlen at Tallinn.
- 132: Financial documents of Albrecht Blanckenhagen, primarily receipts from the years 1700-1707, which include, for example, a costs calculus (various customs fees, etc.) of shipping his rye to Amsterdam, signed by the Tallinn merchant Herman Clayhills in 1700.
Accessibility
Inventory.
An index of personal names appearing in the inventories of the estate and personal record groups of the Estonian Historical Archives is available at: www.eha.ee.
Record creator / provenance
The noble Schillings family moved to Estonia/Estland from Courland (Kurland). Karl Gebhard von Schilling (1719-1779) began his service in the Russian army as a soldier and left it as a major general. Through his marriage with Helene Charlotte (widow of Hermann Adrian von Römer, c. 1700-1756), he acquired the Manors of Müüsleri/Seinigal and Orina/Orgena in Järvamaa/Jerwen and his name was entered in the peerage roll of the Estonian Knighthood.
In the seventeenth century the Manor of Müüsleri belonged to the Tallinn/Reval councilman Coord Meuseler. His daughter Anna married captain Albrecht Blanckenhagen and after her death the Manor went into the hands of their daughter Anna Justina, the first wife of Hermann Adrian von Römer.
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