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- Herbert Holly describes in his article the marriage preparations taken for the marriage of daughter Magdalena and Peter Roggy:
It is very interesting to read documents reporting all that was done for the marriage of Magdalena Bircky and Peter Roggy. The time frame stretched over three months from April 1828 to the wedding date in July 1828. It shows how marriages were managed at those times, and I think that this was the way of all families, not only Anabaptist families.
These are the main facts:
• April 13-26,1828, Christian Roggy, the tenant of Armsdorf castle estate and father of the groom, stayed in the guesthouse “Zum Goldenen Engel” (at the sign of the Golden Angel) in Regensburg.
• On April 22,1828, a contract of co-partnership was agreed between Peter Roggy and Johannes Bircky at Patrimonial Court Köfering (Patrimonial is the most local court of the system in Bavaria in the 1800s).* Johannes Bircky announces that he has a lot of debt on Hellerhof in Obersanding and therefore is willing to give (in order to make the management of the farm easier) his daughter Magdalena as wife to Peter Roggy, who also is present. Both Johannes Bircky and Peter Roggy want to manage the farm together and both will share all debts as well as all income. A book in which income and outgoing payments are to be written will be kept. Peter Roggy is bringing 400 Guilders into the marriage. This will be immediately used to pay part of the debt. If the marriage should be canceled, Peter Roggy would get his 400 Guilders back. If the farm is sold, Peter Roggy and Johannes Bircky are to receive the same amount of money. Jakob Ackermann from Eglofsheim, who is also present, agrees to bring several men of Mennonite religion to court very soon, men who will obligate themselves to guarantee this.
May 12, 1828:
The elders of the Amish Mennonite community of Regensburg confirm in a letter signed by Christian Güngerich, leader of the Amish religious community, and Jakob Ackermann and Joseph Schantz of parish Obersanding, that the community of Amish shall support the engaged couple in case of need, that they would be given shelter and food and therefore would not be a burden to the general public.
May 16, 1828: On this day, it is reported to District Court Stadtamhof that the guarantee of the afore-mentioned members of the Amish Mennonite religion concerning the marriage of Bircky and Roggy has arrived.
May 22, 1828: The District Court Stadtamhof requests the patrimonial Court Köfering demand a certificate be brought proving Peter Roggy has fulfilled military service, as Mennonites have the duty to serve the military like everybody. Simon Gugenberger, principal of the borough, and church warden Kaspar Scherer sign that they have no oppositions to the marriage of Magdalena Bircky and Peter Roggy, as well as to the naturalization of Peter Roggy (from Peter’s former residence in France to Bavaria).
July 19, 1828:Johannes Bircky, owner of Hellerhof in Obersanding, agrees with Peter Roggy from Armsdorf to the prepared contract of co–partnership from April 22, 1828, and they sign in the presence of Peter Roggy´s father, Christian Roggy. Johannes Bircky gives his daughter Magdalena to Peter Roggy for his wife, and contracts with both an agreement concerning the management of the farm: they will live together in one house, therefore they are one family, and they will share expenses and income equally. If the contract would be absolved, Peter Roggy would get back the 400 Guilders he brought to the marriage. Signed: Peter Roggy, Johannes Bircky, Christian Roggy, Magdalena Birki, Jakob Ackermann as witness. [3, 8, 10]
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1807 - Aft 1860 (> 54 years)
d. 1850/1860, Putnam Co., IL 
