Nils Hansøn Meng
Landowner and trader in Fredrikstad, Norway. He was one of the citizen who founded the city Fredrikshald (Halden), and appointed as "magistratspresident" there (superior mayor). He married Johanne (Winther?) and got from her much estate, among them the farm Dyne in Hogdals parish in Baahus "Len", where they first lived. Abt. 1640 they moved to Halden, and nearby he owned several farms, among them Eskeviken. He was in local administration already in 1630, later he became a "Herredsskriver" in “Norder Viken” (north Bohus), and then bailiff there too and in Idde and Marker "Len", and also customs officer in Svinesund and on the Swedish border. He was an important man for the king during the war 1644-45. In Halden he was a successful businessman and administated 2 timber mills for Bjelke. When Fredrikshald in 1665 got privileges as a city Gyldenløwe appointed him to Fredrikhald's first mayor, confirmed by the king, who gave him the title President, and also appointed him to be a member of "Admiralitetsrådet" (council of Admirality). Nils Hansøn Meng was "Lagmann" and "Amtmand" in Smålenene. All together he was the owner of 72 farms, 7 in Båhuslen.
Meng in Halden might be related to Mencke i Oldenburg and nearby regions. Social class and employment fit well, and Oldenburg was connected to Danmark.
I got 90 photo copies about Mencke from ”Das Staatsarchiv in Oldenburg”. In my database you can read more about the descendants of the brothers Berend Mencke (born abt. 1539), Hans Mencke (born abt. 1540) og Helmrich (Heinrich?) Mencke (born before 1550).
Variations of the last name: Mench(-e, -en), Mench(-e, -en), Menk(-e, -en), Meng(-e, -en, -in) and in latin writing (at universities) Mengius, Menckenii osv.
In Flensburg there lived a family mostly called Meincke. Some of them moved to Copenhagen and Trondheim.
Johan Meincke visited Norway several times and died 1657 in Flensburg.
Funeral in Trondheim Domkirke 1729-1751: ”Menche, Henrik - his dear wife 1/3 1748”
(She was Henrik's 2. wife Anne Margrethe Schultz buried 1.3.1748.)
"Statsarkivet" (state archive in Bergen):
"Skifte" after Hansen Mengs grandchild Maren Mench (also called Marie/Maria Meng):
1741 May 16. ….. Maren Mench, widow General Major Tuchsen, among her heirs, .....
Niels Hansen Mengs daughter Mette Nielsdatter Meng's testament 1677:
….. My brothers Mr. Hans Nielssen Mengh, vicar in Fredrichstad, and Dean (“Prost”) in “Nedre Borge Syssles Proustie”, and Knud Nielssen Mengh, fornemme Handelsmand her paa Stedit, ….”.
"Statholderskabets Extraktprotokol af Supplicationer og Resolutioner 1662-1669”.
Andet Bind 1664-65.
Christiania 1917.
Page 349: Anno 1665 (July) …Borgmr. (mayor) Nielsz Hansen Mengd …
Possible but not proved relative:
Citizenship in Bergen 1600-1751: Jochum Mench from Lübeck, 1659 May 31.
Register of mortgages of Bergen:
Jochum Mench 1688-1691
Johan Mench 1688-1691
Danske Gesandter.Danmarks Adels Aarbog, Årg. 1937, s.83:
Otto von Mencken
Begr. 29 Nov 1703, Altona (Hamburg)
Married 2. Des. 1689 Eva Margrethe Jessen
Otto von Mencken, "Etatsråd, envoyé" in Wolfenbüttel, "amtmand" in Steinburg Amt (Holsten).
Steinburg near Itzehoe north of Hamburg. Wolfenbüttel north of Itzehoe.
(There also is a place south of Hamburg called Wolfenbüttel.)
The student friends Otto Mencke (1644 - 1707) and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz both became professors at the university in Leibzig. They were busy many places and wrote letters now taken good care off. One of the letters from Leibnitz:
Wolfenbüttel, 25. Februar (/. März) 1693 (225)
A Monsieur Mencke Resident du Roy de Dannemarc .......
Perhaps this letter was to Otto von Mencken who died 1703, and not to the professor Otto Mencken?
http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BrievenAnthonieHeinsius1702- 1720/Index/m
MENCKEN, OTTO. I; II (+1703) Resident van Denemarken in Wolfenbüttel 1697-1703. Marquard, Danske Gesandter.
"Almindeligt litteraturlexicon for Danmark, Norge, og Island", page 384:
"Dansk og norsk Litteraturlexicon. Anden Halvdel", 1819.
Meng (Hans Nielsen) born in Norway. His father Niels Jensen Meng, was royal "Commissarius". Traveled abroad, and in 1665 he achieved a university degree "Magister". Died as priest (vicar) in Friderichstad 1682.
"Ligprædiken over Thomas Olufsen (Blix)", Kbh. 1671. 4
