On 09 Sep 1846, Christina Lather, daughter of Balthasar Lather and Elisabetha Margaretha Lather, was born in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt (now Germany). She was baptized in the parish church in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt (now Germany) on 27 Sep 1846.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Christina Lather – 1846
SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt), “Geburts=Protocoll der Gemeinde Kirtorf fí¼r 1846. [Birth Records of the Kirtorf Congregation for 1846.],” page 34, Christina Lather, 27 September 1846; filmed as Kirchenbuchduplikat 1808-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 0,855,109.
Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Christina Lather. This PDF document includes an image of the original document, a transcription in German Gothic, a transcription in modern German, and a translation in English. Translated from the German, the record reads:
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Christina, Balthasar Lather’s Daughter
Between eleven and twelve o’clock at night on September ninth in the year of the Lord eighteen-hundred forty-six, after a credible report, the fifth child and second daughter was born to Balthasar Lather, citizen and tailor here, and his wife Elisabetha Margaretha née Lather, and on the twenty-seventh of the same month she was baptized and given the name Christina.
         The Sponsor was:
         Christina, wife of Christoph Philipp Lather, tailor here,
who has signed the present document next to the father of the child and me the minister who conducted the baptism.
[signed] Christina Lather
[signed] Balthasar Lather
         [signed] Wolfgang Ernst Glí¼ckner
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