LESLIE VON SACKHOF, MARIE ELISABETH [SSNE 7203]

Surname

LESLIE VON SACKHOF

First name

MARIE ELISABETH, ELISABET, ELIZABETH

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Marie Elisabet Leslie was the second daughter of Alexander Leslie [SSNE 7201] who was a cavalry captain in Swedish service from the 1650s. She grew up on the Sackhof (Saka) family estate in Estonia, about 30 miles from Narva. Around the year 1679, Marie Elisabet married Captain Gustaf Fredrik Wassman with whom she had five children, three of them reaching adulthood: Erich Gustav (1680-1748), Anna Helena 1683-1736) and Eleonora (1695-1748). Erich Gustav served in the Swedish army and remained unmarried. Anna Helena married Sergeant Major Johan Halfbiörn in 1700 in Virolahti, Finland, and interestingly Halfbiörn's step-mother was the Scot Johanna Leslie [SSNE 7194]. Eleonora married Captain Moritz Johann von Brandt (1688-1738).

Marie Elisabet Leslie‘s husband Gustav Fredrik Wassman was ennobled in 1683, but not introduced into the House of Nobility. After his death on 11 August 1701 in Porvoo, Finland, she returned to her unmarried sister Anna Margaretha at Sackhof in Estonia together with her in 1701 widowed daughter Anna Helena Wassman and Anna Helena‘s children. At Sackhof, Marie Elisabet became the heir of her aunt, Elisabeth Leslie [SSNE 7202]. Elizabeth had married variously to two Swedish officers, Lars Stålklinga and Hans Wagner. She died childless however, and so Marie Elisabeth was her closest living relative.

Marie Elisabet‘s sister Anna Margaretha died before 1736, the year her daughter Anna Helena Wassman died on 24 October. Now sole owner of Sackhof, Marie Elisabet died there on 22 September 1743. Her funeral took place in Luggenhausen on 7 October 1743. Sackhof estate was now inherited by Marie Elisabet‘s children still alive, her son Erich Gustav and her daughter Eleonora, and three of her grand-children, Anna Helena‘s son Bengt (* ca. 1710) and her daughters Elisabetha (1709-1781) and Birgitta (* ca. 1710). Eleonora, however, who after the death of her first husband Moritz von Brandt had married Captain Christoph Ernst von Pfeilitzer on 21 June 1744 was bound to die on 22 July 1745, only one year after her second marriage .

In 1746, Major Erich Gustav Wassman and the three Halfbiörn siblings as owners of Sackhof started negotiations to sell the estate to Lieutenant General Georg Johann von Wrangel (1672-1746) who, member of an old German-Baltic dynasty, had been in Hanoverian services together with Alexander Wilhelm von Leslie. Interrupted briefly by von Wrangel‘s sudden death on 6 June 1746, his widow Catharina Margarethe von Wrangel née von Pufendorf (1684-1763) resumed negotiations which were finalized on 28 September 1748, three months after the death of Major Erich Gustav Wassman. He had been introduced as number 133 into the Estonian house of nobility just the year before on 12 June 1747.

Sources:

Jully Ramsay, Frälsesläkter i Finland intill stora ofräden, (Helsingfors, 1909), pp.173, 500. See the entry for Hans Wagner; "Adlad 1664 3/9, introducerad 1668 under n:r 764. Utgången 1677. Hans Wagner, f. i Tyskland. Var ”ett armt och uselt barn då han under trettioåriga kriget upptogs, från gatan” af öfverste Bernhard von Gertten, och fördes till Finland. Löjtnant vid Viborgs läns infant. Regte 1647. Kapten 1656 /1. Slottsmajor i Reval 1659. Major vid Viborgs dragoner 1659 14/8. Adlad 1664 3/9. Öfverstelöjtnant 1668 20/7 (1). Uppförde 1667 säteri med”goda hus” — enligt säterilängden — 1 Sirkjärvi by i Säkkjärvi socken, hvilken by tilldelats hans hustrus förre man 1649 med konfirmation åt arfvingarne 1651 och 1663; — d. 1677 (1). Barnlös. — Gift 1651 med Elisabet Leslie, 1 hennes 2:a gifte, enka efter kaptenen Lars Stålklinga, n:r 441. Hon var syster till ryttmästaren Alexander Leslie, och hennes närmaste arfvinge var den-nes dotter Marie Elisabet Leslie von Sackhof, gift med kaptenen Gustaf Fredrik Wassman, adlad 1683, icke introducerad"; Bunz, Rainer. 2018. Von Leslie – Schottischer Adel in Deutschland und Österreich. Norderstedt: BoD – Book on Demand, pp. 144, 147, 174-176.

Article revised on 20 June 2020 by Rainer Bunz. Information supplied by Hilkka Kesiö-Lairila, Kouvola, Finland.

Service record

SWEDEN, SACKHOF, NARVA

Departed 1743-02-07

Purpose MISC.