#28 Women: 15th Great-Grandmother NN NN (No Name) (born abt 1400–died aft 1455)

Our 15th great grandmother might have been a wealthy burgher. Beyond that we don’t know much, including her name. We don’t know her name because the churches in Bayreuth and Mistelbach did not start keeping records until the mid 1500s. Anyone born before that time we must infer from court records, and women, because of their lack of legal standing, were often not mentioned by name.

Head of an Old Peasant Woman with White Cap, 1884 by Vincent Van Gogh.

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