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- Karina Dirichsdatter has an important place in Bornholm's genealogy, not only did she become the founding mother of the widely known and branching Dich-family, but through her second marriage to Shipmaster David Wolsen, also from Scotland, she is the founding mother of the equally well known Wulfsen-family of Bornholm.
Her own origins remain unkown, she cannot be traced back to either the island's old farm-families or to having any connections to families occupying public office on Bornholm. She survived her second husband David Wolsen and was a widow for many years, reaching a very old age. She is mentioned in the land-registry records as late as the early 1660s as owning land in Ibsker parish; however from 1667 she was no longer named in the books. Their daughter, Elsebet Davidsdatter, was buried under her parent's gravestone in Svaneke.
The original old Danish inscription states:
Denne Steen og St?de tilh?rer mig David Wolfsen og min Hustrue Karine Dirichs Datter og deres arvinger og som ligger herunder begraven Elsebeth Davidsdatter. Hvis Sj?l Gud haver. Memento Mori.
Translated to English:
This Stone and Place tells that myself David Wolfsen and my Wife Karine Dirichsdatter and their heir and who lies hereunder buried Elsebeth Davidsdatter. Whose Sole God has. Remembered in Death.
The reason we can document Karina Dirichsdatter's position in the Dich-family stems from the fact that Eskild Sandersen Dich's two sons, Albert and Sander Dich, in a court case in the 1670s declared to have inherited certain valuables from their "farmor Karina sal. Davids" (father's mother Karina, widow of David). Sander Dich's brother Hans Dich is also often mentioned in documents from the 1600s; his tombstone still lies as an entrance stone in Svaneke's church, its inscription worn away, but according to Laurids de Thurah's book "Omst?ndelig og tilforladelig Beskrivelse over Bornholm og Christians?e" from 1756, it was placed there by Hans Dich and his wife Johanne Jensdatter.
By these facts we can figure out that since Johanne Jensdatter was not their father's mother, then it wasn't Hans Dich who was their father; also, this meant that Karina, who died as David Wolsen's widow, had earlier been Sander Dich's wife.
From Bornholm's Jordebog of 1651:
Jibscher Sougn, Cronens Tiennere, Eller Jordeigne B?nd, Nr. 22: Dauidt Wolffss?nn, Auflen h?stes till Suanniche.
From Bornholm's Jordebog of 1658, compiled during the Swedish occupation:
?ster H?radt, Ibschier Sochn, Skattehamman, Nr. 9: David Wolsens enke. . . 14 Daler, 21 ?re, 22 Fr.
From Bornholm's Jordebog, April 19, 1661:
Suaneke: Borgmester Didrich Wulffsen. . . Tiuge t?nder. Karina sal. Davids. . . Fire t?nder.
From the 1662 Jordebog of Bornholm:
?ster Herridt, Ibschier Sogn, Bunde, Nr. 9: David Oellsens enke. (sic, s.b. David Wolsens enke!)
This database researched and compiled by Norman Lee Madsen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 21 July 2015.
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1575 - 1665 (~ 90 år)
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