The Danenberg Family

Marija Gibboja 1853–1925

Peter's great-great-grandmother.

Also recorded as Marie / Mari Gibboy; Marija Sirlaka; Marija Ģibojs; Gibboy (p. 7); Giboy (pp. 7, 12); Giboji (p. 7); Marija Ģibols (married name Sirlaks).

Marija Gibboja was born on 18 Aug 1853 in Kalna-Podis farm, Priekuļi, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia3,4,5,6, the daughter of Mārcis Gibboy and Anne Gibboy5,7. She married Pēteris Sirlaks on 22 Feb 1874 in Rauna, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia19,20,21. She died on 1 Nov 1925 in Vīstuči farm, Jaunrauna, Rauna, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia11,12 and was buried at Jaunrauna cemetery, Jaunrauna, Rauna, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia13,14,15.

Family

Parents
Mārcis Gibboy b. 1807 and Anne Gibboy b. 1819 documented
Husband
Pēteris Sirlaks 1847–1896 · married on 22 Feb 1874 in Rauna, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia
Children

Life events

EventDatePlace and details
Born18 Aug 1853Kalna-Podis farm, Priekuļi, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia
Old Style (Julian) date: 6 Aug 18533,4,5,6
Lived5 Dec 1857Priekuļi, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia
Old Style (Julian) date: 23 Nov 18577
Note1871St John's church, Cēsis, Cēsis, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia
confirmation (iesvētīšana) at Cēsis, 1871, aged c. 17–18.4
Notebet 1872 and 1873She was 19 when Pēteris courted her (so c. 1872–73); tall, blue-eyed, "Liv"; raised the seven surviving children alone; a portrait shows her with her four sons.16
NoteMar 1890Vīstuči farm, Jaunrauna, Rauna, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia
Mother of Anna Sirlaka (b. 1890), as 'Mari geb. Gibboy', wife of farmer Peter Sirlak. Her own birth (tree: 1853) and death (tree: 1920) are still unsourced.17
Died1920According to the family's 2015 tree10
Died1 Nov 1925Vīstuči farm, Jaunrauna, Rauna, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia
Preferred version: Voronins's tree gives a full date (1 Nov 1925, Vīstuči); Timenote also has 1925, and Aina's memoir (an eyewitness, aged 5) has a November night in 1925, aged 72. The 2015 tree's 1920 has no known source. Only the 1925 civil death register would fix the day.11,12
BuriedNov 1925Jaunrauna cemetery, Jaunrauna, Rauna, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia13,14,15
LivedVīstuči farm, Jaunrauna, Rauna, Cēsis district, Vidzeme, Latvia8,9
NoteKin of the Gibboy family: the Augškāps family and the Bite (Bitte) family at the Rauņi inn (Rauņu krogs).18

Photographs

Marija Sirlaka with her sons Kārlis, Mārtiņš, Dāvis and Augusts and Mārtiņš's wife Emma, c. 1911–1913
Marija Sirlaka with her sons Kārlis, Mārtiņš, Dāvis and Augusts and Mārtiņš's wife Emma, c. 1911–1913. Seated, centre (black headscarf, holding a book). Family photograph, Peter Danenberg's collection.
The same portrait in the family album, with its handwritten Latvian caption
The same portrait in the family album, with its handwritten Latvian caption. “Mana tēva māte Marija Sirlaks, pa kr. viņas vecākais dēls Kārlis, pa labi dēls Mārtiņš ar sievu Emmu, stāv no kr. dēls Augusts un dēls Dāvis. Trūkst meitas Anna un Erna.” (My father's mother, Marija Sirlaks; on the left her eldest son Kārlis; on the right son Mārtiņš with his wife Emma; standing, from the left, son Augusts and son Dāvis. Missing are the daughters Anna and Erna.). Family photograph, Peter Danenberg's collection.

Open questions

Sources

  1. Ainas Sirlakas atmiņas ("Vīstuči"), Aina Jurciņa née Sirlaka, Priekuļi, 1998, p. 12, section "PĒDĒJĀ DIENA VIRSZEMĒ".
    vecās lībietes Marijas Sirlakas dzim. Giboy
    Translation: the old Liv woman Marija Sirlaka née Giboy

    Spellings of her maiden name in the memoir: Gibboy, Giboy, Giboji. Church books: Gibboy, Gibboij. Our file name uses "Gibboja".

  2. MyHeritage family tree 'Dzimta' of Peter's third cousin (his family site), member GEDCOM export of 26 Oct 2026, I19 (person-6000019), GEDCOM lines 840–898.
    NAME Marija /Ģibols/ · _MARNM Sirlaks
  3. Peter's tree, danenberg.sql, 2007–2015, personae 8, birth.
  4. Ainas Sirlakas atmiņas ("Vīstuči"), Aina Jurciņa née Sirlaka, Priekuļi, 1998, p. 7, section "PĒTERA MĀRČA DĒLA ĢIMENE".
    Marija Sirlaka dzim. Gibboy, 1853.6.VIII-1925.XI, iesvētīta Cēsīs 1871.
    Translation: Marija Sirlaka née Gibboy, 6 August 1853 – November 1925, confirmed at Cēsis 1871.

    = 18 August 1853 Gregorian. As printed in the memoir; a 19th-century church-book date, so almost certainly Julian (Old Style).

  5. Cēsis rural congregation births 1853, no. 149, LVVA f. 235, apr. 4, l. 586, image 13 (right page, folio 10), LVVA f. 235, apr. 4, l. 586, image 13.
    [August] — sechsten Morg. 8 Uhr | — sechzehnten | 149. Freudenberg K. Pohdis. Marie Gibboij. Lett. Kn. Mahrzis Gibboij u. s. W. Anne, luth. T. Lej Pohdis Jehkabs Pohdis u. s. W. Lihse, K. Pohdis Marie Bitte.
    Translation: Born [August] the sixth, 8 a.m.; baptised the sixteenth. No. 149. Freudenberg, Upper Pohdis farm. Marie Gibboy. [Parents:] Latvian farmhand Mārcis Gibboy and his wife Anne, Lutheran. Godparents: from Lower Pohdis, Jēkabs Pohdis and his wife Līze; from Upper Pohdis, Marie Bitte.

    Born 6 Aug 1853 Julian (= 18 Aug 1853 Gregorian) at 8 a.m.; baptised 16 Aug 1853. Daughter of Latvian farmhand (Kn. = Knecht) Mahrzis (Mārcis) Gibboy and his wife Anne, Lutherans (mother by given name only, as usual in 1853). Godparents: Jehkabs Pohdis and his wife Lihse of Lejas-Pohdis, and Marie Bitte[?] of Kalna-Pohdis. The 71st legitimate girl of the year. The same volume shows a farm named 'Gibboy' on Freudenberg (marriages 1853 no. 21), the likely origin of the surname, and the death of an unmarried maidservant Masche Gibboy, aged 58⅔, at Freudenberg Lejas-Dauksche (deaths 1853 no. 154). Kristīne Gibboy, Marie's probable sister and godmother of Mārtiņš Sirlaks in 1883, should be among later Freudenberg births (Cēsis rural Dz 1847–1879, LVVA 235/7/104).

  6. MyHeritage family tree 'Dzimta' of Peter's third cousin (his family site), member GEDCOM export of 26 Oct 2026, I19 (person-6000019), GEDCOM lines 840–898.
    BIRT · 6 AUG 1853 · Priekuļi, K. Pohdin

    Date: Julian (Old Style), as in the church books: = 18 Aug 1853 (Gregorian), as we have it. His note: Priekuļi births, https://www.raduraksti.arhivi.lv/objects/1:4:11:2055:2343:17226#&gid=1&pid=93, frame 93, entry 149 ('Marija piedzima Priekuļos'). [DNA evidence (private)]

  7. Priekuļi (Freudenberg) soul revision 1857, Rauguļi farm, family 10/58 (Marz Gibboi), LVVA f. 77, apr. 14, l. 344, image 16 (pp. 11v–12), LVVA f. 77, apr. 14, l. 344, image 16.
    10. | 58. | Marz Gibboi | aus No. XIV. | 50. ‖ 10. | 58. | dessen Frau Anne | 38. / Töchter 1. Marri | 4. / 2. Christine | 2.
    Translation: Family 10 (9th rev.) / 58 (10th rev.): Mārcis Gibboi, from farm no. XIV [at the last revision], now 50. His wife Anne, 38; daughters 1. Marija, 4; 2. Kristīne, 2.

    1857 soul revision, family 10/58: Marz Gibboi, at the last revision 'aus No. XIV' (from the Luste farm), now 50; his wife Anne 38; daughters 1. Marri 4 and 2. Christine 2.

  8. Ainas Sirlakas atmiņas ("Vīstuči"), Aina Jurciņa née Sirlaka, Priekuļi, 1998, p. 9, section "PAR PĒTERA UN MARIJAS PIEKTO BĒRNU DĀVIDU".
    Varbūt tādēļ atraitne Marija “Vīstučus” uzticēja savam apdāvinātākajam bērnam.
    Translation: Perhaps that is why the widow Marija entrusted "Vīstuči" to her most gifted child.

    Widowed 1896, she raised the seven surviving children alone (p. 7) and handed the farm to Dāvis; in the 1920s she lived in one downstairs room with Dāvis’s family (p. 11–12). A portrait showed her with her four sons (p. 11).

  9. My Life and Times (1912–1949), ¶13.
    my father’s mother had driven to our house in a horse-drawn wagon from Raunas Vīstuči. She lived with on a farm with my father’s brother Dāvis
  10. Peter's tree, danenberg.sql, 2007–2015, personae 8, death.
  11. Ainas Sirlakas atmiņas ("Vīstuči"), Aina Jurciņa née Sirlaka, Priekuļi, 1998, p. 7, section "PĒTERA MĀRČA DĒLA ĢIMENE".
    Marija Sirlaka dzim. Gibboy, 1853.6.VIII-1925.XI
    Translation: Marija Sirlaka née Gibboy … died November 1925

    Died on a November night at Vīstuči when Aina was 5 and Ilga 3 (p. 11: "Tajā novembra naktī … Viņai bija 3, man 5 gadiņi."), aged 72 (p. 12). Laid out in the granary above the cellar; buried (Jaunrauna) with the cemetery bell tolling. Refutes the 1920 death year of the 2015 tree; supports lead marija-gibboja-death-year (1925).

  12. MyHeritage family tree 'Dzimta' of Peter's third cousin (his family site), member GEDCOM export of 26 Oct 2026, I19 (person-6000019), GEDCOM lines 840–898.
    DEAT · NOV 1925 · Vīstuči, Jaunrauna · AGE 72

    [DNA evidence (private)]

  13. Ainas Sirlakas atmiņas ("Vīstuči"), Aina Jurciņa née Sirlaka, Priekuļi, 1998, p. 12.
    Es sadzirdēju vecāsmammas bēru zvanu no kapsētas. … Izvadīja no klēts virs pagraba.
    Translation: I heard grandmother's funeral bell from the cemetery. … The coffin was carried out from the granary above the cellar.

    Funeral from the granary over the cellar at Vīstuči; Aina (aged 5) heard the funeral bell from the cemetery, presumably Jaunrauna cemetery, where Pēteris lies.

  14. S-sweep-sirlaks-frontier-https-cemety-lv-public-deceaseds-340475-type.
    Marija Sirlaka Dzimšanas datums: 1853, Miršanas datums: 1925
    Translation: Marija Sirlaka, born 1853, died 1925

    cemety: born 1853, died 1925 (years only). The photo shows a red granite obelisk; its inscription is not legible in cemety's photo.

  15. MyHeritage family tree 'Dzimta' of Peter's third cousin (his family site), member GEDCOM export of 26 Oct 2026, I19 (person-6000019), GEDCOM lines 840–898.
    BURI · Jaunraunas kapi, Latvija

    [DNA evidence (private)]

  16. Ainas Sirlakas atmiņas ("Vīstuči"), Aina Jurciņa née Sirlaka, Priekuļi, 1998, p. 7, 10, 11.
    Kad Sirlaku Pēteris noskatīja slaido līvu zilaci Mariju, viņai bija 19 gadi. … visus septiņus viņa viena izaudzināja … tajā portretā ar saviem četriem skaistajiem, …
    Translation: When Pēteris Sirlaks chose the slender blue-eyed Liv Marija, she was 19. … she raised all seven alone … in that portrait with her four …

    She was 19 when Pēteris courted her (so c. 1872–73); tall, blue-eyed, "Liv"; raised the seven surviving children alone; a portrait shows her with her four sons.

  17. Raunas latviešu draudzes 1877.–1891. gada augusta dzimušo un kristīto reģistrs, 1890 no. 96, LVVA f. 235, apr. 7, l. 517, image 451, LVVA f. 235, apr. 7, l. 517, image 451.
    Wth Peter Sirlak u. d. Fr. Mari geb. Gibboy
    Translation: farmer Peter Sirlak and his wife Mari née Gibboy

    Mother of Anna Sirlaka (b. 1890), as 'Mari geb. Gibboy', wife of farmer Peter Sirlak. Her own birth (tree: 1853) and death (tree: 1920) are still unsourced.

  18. Ainas Sirlakas atmiņas ("Vīstuči"), Aina Jurciņa née Sirlaka, Priekuļi, 1998, p. 4, section "PAR VĪSTUČU VĀRDU".
    Dāvja mātes radi bija Augškāpi, Bites Rauņu krogā
    Translation: Dāvis’s mother’s relatives were the Augškāpi [family of Augškāpi farm], the Bites at the Rauņi inn

    Kin of the Gibboy family: the Augškāps family and the Bite (Bitte) family at the Rauņi inn (Rauņu krogs).

  19. Ainas Sirlakas atmiņas ("Vīstuči"), Aina Jurciņa née Sirlaka, Priekuļi, 1998, p. 7, section "PĒTERA MĀRČA DĒLA ĢIMENE".
    iesvētīts 1874.10.II … Laulāti Raunas baznīcā
    Translation: "confirmed" 10 February 1874 … Married in Rauna church

    spouse: Marija Gibboy. The memoir prints 10.II.1874 as a confirmation ("iesvētīts") date, but it is exactly the marriage date in Rauna marriages 1874 no. 3 (10 Feb 1874 Jul. = 22 Feb Greg.); "iesvētīts" here = the church blessing of the marriage, or a slip.

  20. Raunas draudzes 1874. gada laulāto un mirušo reģistrs, 'Getraute im Jahre 1874', no. 3, LVVA f. 235, apr. 4, l. 2036, image 4 (p. 41), LVVA f. 235, apr. 4, l. 2036, image 4.
    Getraute im Jahre 1874. … Lettische Gemeinde. Achtzehnhundert und vier und siebenzig 1874. … 3. | 10. Februar | Peter Sirlak und Marrie Gibboy | No. 2.
    Translation: Married in the year 1874. … Latvian congregation … No. 3, 10 February: Peter Sirlak and Marrie Gibboy; main register no. 2.

    Married 10 Feb 1874 (Julian; = 22 Feb Gregorian) to Marija ('Marrie') Gibboja. Rauna Latvian marriages 1874, no. 3 in the yearly summary list, which refers to 'Haupt-Register' no. 2. That main register, with ages and parents, was not located online. Also cited as Marija Gibboja's marriage.

  21. MyHeritage family tree 'Dzimta' of Peter's third cousin (his family site), member GEDCOM export of 26 Oct 2026, family F8 (I18 Pēteris Sirlaks × I19 Marija Gibboja).
    MARR 1874.gada 10. Feb Rauna

    read as Julian (Old Style), like his other church-book dates before 1918: = 22 Feb 1874 (Gregorian); he does not say which calendar

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