For mens auktionen bragte rede penge er vurderingen efter hendes død rene papirtal. Disse føres ind i protokollen men til sidst siges disse løsøre sager at være givet til arvingerne så papirtal ind og papirtal ud. Dette er usædvanligt.
Det første møde med registreringen efter Walther Lehims død får indkomsten vurderet til rigsdaler 135 og gælden til 158, så boet erklæres konkurs og næste møde bliver udsat. Imidlertid bringer auktionen 50% mere end vurderingen nemlig rigsdaler 194, sådan at hele gælden kan dækkes. Dette skyldes for en stor del en kraftig inflation. Her kommer så den anden registrering og vurdering efter konen af "løsøre", som nu bliver protokolleret men kun summen 91 rigsdaler 1 mark 4 skilling ikke de individuelle ting som normalt. Det kommer ind som rigsdaler papirtal og ud igen som rigsbankdaler "til deling mellem arvingerne". Omregningen til rigsbankdaler er forkert med 15 2 3⅓ rigtigt er 15 1 3⅔.
Midt imellem skiftemøderne er Danmark nemlig gået statsbankerot i 1813, hvorefter 6 rigsdaler gjordes til 1 rigsbankdaler, som så bruges blandet i det sidste møde, da skiftet sluttes.
Lehim og Delhaags lejebolig er pænt udstyret med 8 læderstole, en dyr dragkiste med skuffer, 4 store billeder og 2 forgylte rammer, 25 små malerier, 3 hængeskabe med lås og nøgle. Der er skåle og fadder og kedler og en kaffemølle. Hvad man ikke ser er fine klæder og masser af sengetøj. Gælden var stor og det var ikke noget rigt hjem, måske kan det kaldes nogenlunde velstående.
Navnene Lehim og Delhaag er ikke danske, så hvor kom de fra? Skiftet har bidraget til at få en ide om det. Fabrikøren, hvis navn ikke var læseligt (forvanskede k'er), men som blev identificeret gennem kirkebogen som Koch, og hvis fornavn blev fundet i FT 1801 i Middelfart som klædefabrikant Johan Heinrich Koch. Hans søn Isak ses i internettet at være født 10 november 1785 i Eupen dengang Tyskland i grænseområdet Belgien Holland Tyskland, efter 1920 tillagt Belgien. Kochs kone hedder Anne Christine Dilhas. Man kan formode, at hun er i familie med Delhaag, hvorfor Johan Heinrich Koch har lånt Walther Lehim og kone de 66 rigsdaler et relativt stort beløb. Walther Lehim har arbejdet for Koch.
This is a combined probate record of Walther Lehim —who drowned in the Little Belt between Middelfart in Funen and Fredericia in Jutland in September 1812 — and his wife Ane Maria Elisabeth Delhaag. There is the usual registration and valuation of the estate December 18th 1812. His estimated worth is 135 rigsdaler and his debts 158, so the estate is declared bankrupt and the next probate meeting is postponed but the estate is auctioned off January 9th 1813. His wife Delhaag, however, dies the 22nd of September 1813, whereupon a registration of her estate is made, of which only the sum is mentioned in the last meeting of the probate court December 3rd 1813 which finalizes the probate record. They do not own their house, so the estate is furniture and household things.
The auction provides 194 rigsdaler which is 50% more than the valuation and which is in large part due to inflation, that incidentally leads to Denmark's state bankruptcy in all but name 1813, where the money is written down to 1/6 of the former value. This is apparent in the last meeting, where both the old rigsdaler and the new rigsbankdaler are mixed.
The registered evaluation, without the individual items (highly unusual), for Delhaag's estate is 91 rigsdaler which is added as a number on paper only, because no auction was held. It was not necessary for the past auction of his estate furnished enough to cover all creditors - against expectations.
So the probate court official awkwardly adds the paper number 91 rigsdaler into the real total income in rigsdaler and takes it out again in rigsbankdaler by saying "given to the Inheritors to divide amongst themselves." Through changing the currency from rigsdaler to rigsbankdaler, it does not jump to the eye, that it is the same amount. That is the conversion of 91 1 4 rigsdaler to rigsbankdaler is wrong in the records giving 15 2 3⅓ instead of the correct result 15 rigsdaler 1 mark 3⅔ skilling.
Lehim and Delhaags estate is solidly furnished with 8 leather chairs an expensive chest with four drawers, 4 large paintings 2 gilded frames, 25 small paintings, 3 hanging cupboards, trays, bowls and kettles and a coffee mill. What is not there is fine clothes and lots of bed linen. The debt was large so it was not a rich home. May be it could be called reasonably well off.
The names of the Catholics Lehim and Delhaag are not Danish. So where do they hail from? The probate record has helped to get a lead on this. A 'fabrikør' (owner of a cloth factory) is mentioned whose name was not decipherable (misbegotten k's). But he was identified partly by going through the church register as Koch with the first names Johan Heinrich from the census 1801 in Middelfart. His son Isac is seen in the internet as born November 10th 1785 in Eupen, which was German at the time and ceded to Belgium 1920. Koch's wife is Anne Christine Dilhas, who perhaps is a relative or friend of Ane Maria Elisabeth Delhaag, when you consider that Koch lends the Lehims 66 rigsdaler which is a large amount of money. The assumption is also that Walther Lehim worked in Koch's factory.
That Lehim and Delhaag are Catholics is seen when their son Jacob marries in Middelfart in 1811 "born of Catholic parents and raised in same religion". See Jacob Lehim.