Hello.

I am doing research about one of my ancestors Anthoni Coucheron.

Now I've found this (and several others) military record https://www.openarchieven.nl/bhi:C95B53C4-FD5D-4962-814A-64E25A54544D

I can read his name, and that he is an engineer, but dont understand the rest?

And what is written above his name?

Hope someone can help me.

Hugo Kristensen

Denmark

Heerlicheijt Wedde ende
Westerwoldingerlant

Anthonij Coucheron ingenieur XXV ₤ (strictly speaking this means pounds, but quite often guilders were meant).

Michaël

Thank you for a quick answer .

What does "Heerlicheijt Wedde ende Westerwoldingerlant" mean?

Hugo

Mr. Kristensen: this is a combination of an administrative/territorial term and a geographical term. 
 

— ‘Heerlicheijt’, in modern Dutch: ‘Heerlijkheid’, goes back to the notion of ‘heer’ (German: ‘Herr’ ; Danish: ‘herre’), a governing Lord of a territory or manor; as it is explained by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heerlijkheid , quote: “A heerlijkheid (a Dutchword; pl. heerlijkheden; also called heerschap; Latin: Dominium)^[1] was a landed estate that served as the lowest administrative and judicialunit in rural areas in the Dutch-speaking Low Countries before 1800. It originated as a unit of lordship under the feudalsystem during the Middle Ages. The English equivalents are manor, seigniory and lordship.^[2]The German equivalent is Herrschaft.”

— Westerwolde is a region in the east of the Dutch province of Groningen, situated around the Ruiten-Aa, Mussel-Aa, and Westerwoldse Aa rivers. Before the 19th century, the area was also called Westerwoldinger Land, or Westwoldinger Land, also known as Westerwoldingen or Westwoldingen. It contains the villages of Bellingwolde, Blijham, Onstwedde, Sellingen, Ter Apel, Vlagtwedde, Vriescheloo, and Wedde. The people in Westerwolde speak Dutch and the West Low German dialect Westerwolds. — See Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerwolde_(region) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedde .

Westerwolde, shown on a political map of the provincial capital city of Groningen and the surrounding regions, up to 1795 (now on the borders with Germany) : 

(Source of the map: the Dutch-language Wikipedia page https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerwolde_%28streek%29 ). 
Lots of success! 

PS. Though you will still need to run the pages with search-results through a good translation website, like Google Translate or DeepL ,   some good indications / clues for your genealogical research might also appear in two sources: 

1. WieWasWie (“Who Was Who”), a Dutch national database of information from historical church books’ registrations (baptism / marriage / burials) and more modern governmental certificates of civil status, available nationwide since 1811 (birth / marriage / death), which have become public (available to the general population, after passing a limited privacy-protection period: after 100 years following the year of birth, 75 years following the year of marriage, and 50 years following the year of death). See: https://www.wiewaswie.nl/en/search/?advancedsearch=1 

2. Delpher (which is a play-of-words between the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece and the verb/expression ‘delven’ : mining for natural resources / digging for gold, etc.) : see https://www.delpher.nl/ . This is an enormous collection of digitized pages from historical newspapers, magazines, books and ANP news-agency bulletins, from the period ca. 1618–1995. 

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Ad 1. In the database website of WieWasWie, looking for the family-name variants of Cucheron and Coucheron, there are some interesting search-results within The Netherlands, and specifically in that same province of Groningen, e.g. a city church parish: 

(Whereby the name of Trijntien, in the church parish of the city of Groningen, 1676, in modern Dutch would be Trijntje, in German: Thrinchen; a diminutive of the name of Catharina: Little Catharina)

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Ad 2. In the literature-research website of Delpher, you will also find some search-results for the family names of Cucheron and Coucheron that may be interesting for your research. For example : 

— An article from the magazine ‘From the Land of Saint Olav’ (concerning the Catholic mission in Norway) dating to 1966, about the reconstruction of the Fortress of Trondheim, after the Peace Treaty of Roskilde (1658) had shortly put the region under Swedish rule, https://resolver.kb.nl/resolve?urn=MMKDC07:006884003:00005

Quote: “In Trondheim, the construction of the fortress system had taken place under the management of an engineer coming from Holland,  Anthony Coucheron. Apparently, Norwegian officers liked to take up their studies with the Dutch.“ 
 

Mr. Posterholt

Thank you very much. That was very helpfull.

Especially the map is a great help.

Hugo Kristensen

Denmark