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Wanted: Hans Heinrich Beinhorn, the dragoon

One of my ancestors is Hans Heinrich Beinhorn who married Anne Catharine Rühling on 11th July 1724 in Grone now Göttingen. He died in Grone on  8th February 1747 aged 74 years and was buried the following day in Grone.

These data are recorded in the church book of the ev.-luth. parish St. Petri in Grone. No Beinhorn is mentioned here before the 11th January 1724. The head tax lists of 1689 for the principalities Calenberg-Göttingen and Grubenhagen mention no Beinhorn in the region of Göttingen. Where did he come from?

The marriage register lists him as a dragoon soldier. A search for a dragoon regiment stationed around Grone leads to the Regiment Bothmer, the later Hannoverian 6th Kavallerie Regiment, Dragoner. This regiment was founded in 1689 in Celle by Major Horn. Parts of it were stationed in places around Göttingen in the 1720s.

Looking for the present distribution of living name carriers "Beinhorn" in Germany one finds two main regions where they are located:

  • Gifhorn - this is where Hans Heinrich Beinhorn could have come from. Places like Osloss, Sülfeld, Weyhausen, Tappenbeck, Gifhorn, Gambsen mention "Beinhorns" around 1700. The Hannoverian 6th Cavalry Regiment, Dragoons, was founded in Celle not far away. Certainly, members of the regiment were hired in this region and later transferred to Göttingen.
  • Göttingen - here we find the successors of Hans Heinrich Beinhorn. Before 1724 no Beinhorn is known around Göttingen.

 

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