Land Records

How can TMG help us understand what the extensive real estate transactions tell us about the life of Frederick Wilhelm Franke (1823-1883)?

Timeline -Frederick Wilhelm Franke• Chronology of events in life of FW Franke "the immigrant"• • All addresses are modern day• • 1823 Heneritte Bruning born Engter, Kingdom of Hanover • 1824 FW Franke born Dissen, Kingdom of Hanover • • 1846 FW Franke immigrates• 1849 FW Franke buys 8 plots in Baltimore City Cemetery• 1850 cite Census• 1850 • FW and Henriette live in Balto, Md • 1851 July 2 Fred W dies BCR• • • 1852 1512 Lombard• Oct 28 Baltimore House Bldg Assn No 1 grant a • mortgage to Conrad Schwartzkaupt • • 1510 Lombard• Francis Holthaus grants a mortgage to• Conrad Schwartzkaupt • Holthaus appears to live across the Strawberry Alley from FWF• • 1853 May 5 1510 Lombard BCC• Frances Brown grants FW Franke a lease

Sample of real estate listings• 1872• Mar 19 Balto Housing FWF Release A 556 546•

CR3716-1• • 1873• Feb 17 North German FWF Release A 646 300 • Bldg Assoc• • May 10 FWF Stauss Mtge A 612 251 • Sept 29 FWF Crownfield Deed A 630 135• Sept 29 Crownfield FWF & Anna M Deed A 630 136• • 1876• Strauss, Joe FWF Release A 740 109•

• May 12 FWF United German Mtge A 740 109• Anna M RE & Fire Ins • • 1877• Apr 7 FWF Crownfield Deed A 771 167•

CR4866-2• 1878• Jun 12 FWF Pfennig Asst A 814 144• see F

CR4888-1• Nov 25 United Ger HP Release A 827 158• Real Estate & see F CR4894-2• Fire Ins

Block 1368 Real Estate Transfers

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Sanborn Fire Insurance MapVol 4 1902

• Sanborn map block 1368

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• LandSell

[P] < and [PO]> sold <[M]> <to [R: GRANTEE]> <[L]> <[D]>

• LandBuy

[P] bought <[M]> from [R:GRANTOR] <[L]> <[D]>

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Types of Transactions

• LandAquire (Deed,Assgt,Lease, Sub-lease, Bond)

• LandDisp (Deed, Assgt, Lease, Sub-lease)

• Mortgage

• Release

Ground Rent

The transactions designated as lease,

sublease and assignment contain the terms

“…99 years or renewable forever subject to a yearly payment…”,

This is what commonly is referred to “ground rent”

Cover the conditions

• LandAcquire

[P] < and [PO]> <[M1]> from [R:GRANTOR] <[M2]> <[D]>

• LandDisp

[P] < and [PO]> <[M]> <to [R:GRANTEE]> <[D]>

Mortgage and Release complement each other

Mortgage[P] <and [PO]> <[M1]> from [R:GRANTOR]> <[M2]><[D]>

Release<[R:GRANTOR]> granted a release from a mortgage to [P] < and [PO] > for the property <[M]><[D]>

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Conditions of Transactions

Mortgages are short term – a few years long-no declining balance mortgages

Interest to be paid as sum every six months

Mortgages are obtained from people early. Institutions appear around 1870.

• Although the Frederick Wilhelm Franke household is first household in the 1512 e Lombard st (new address) in the 1880 census, he was a tenant in the property he owned for over 20 years.

• All of his real estate was liquidated before his death in 1883; therefore, no probate.