Hindrich Schenck - where did he come from?

Question

I have traced my Schenck ancestors back to Hindrich Schenck, who was born about 1717 but I don´t know where. They lived in Kristianstad and he died in 1783. Any help appreciated. OOPS - guess I asked this question before.

Answer 1

And got a pretty qualified answer, too.

I just thought to look for a Schenk discussion at Anbytarforum. There was a brief one, started by someone else with an interest in the origin of Hindrich Schenck:
https://forum.rotter.se/index.php?topic=73984.0

- there was no answer to that, just some references to Hindrich's life in articles published in the yearbooks of Föreningen Gamla Christianstad. You could try contacting them: http://www.gamlachristianstad.nu/kontakt.html there should be people who are into the old town records.

Comments

Thanks Eva.  I had seen the first discussion previously and there is some interesting information there. I've also tried tracing information from my previous post on Thomas Schenck from Göteborgs Kristine, Göteborg och Bohus, but found nothing. I was hoping to find a marriage record but had no luck. I may contact the yearbook people and see if they can help.