Notes for Renck Abken: Source: http://www.qsl.net/wb6ufx/AbkenF2.html Sometime in later life this Renck Abken moved to the State of Oldenburg, West Germany and settled in the area of Bremen and apparently became quite wealthy as obtained title to a large parcel of property on which there was a large brick or stone house and several large barns all sturdily built and this compound of improvements was surrounded and landscaped by a beautiful lake known in those days as a "moat" and there were bridges constructed to allow passage over the water, but the bridges themselves were retractable so as to provide a complete closure and isolation of the buildings from the rest of the farm. This was a form of protection as there was not much law protection in that time and place. This was a farm and it had fences made of wild rose hedges and had fields and fruit trees and was extremely well kept.
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Renck Abken, because of his stature and achievements in his community or because of his influence or friendship with authorities or for whatever reason unknown to me or to my father had upon him conferred the title of Von by the Duke of Oldenburg, so he became Renck Von Abken. Whether or not he used the title, we do not know. We do know that his children never continued its use, choosing rather the plain name Abken as was borne by their forebears.
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Renck Abken (b. Abt. 1809, d. 1865)
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