The Birth and Baptism of Heinrich Seng – 1829

Heinrich Seng, son of Philipp Seng and his wife Elisabetha Lather, was born on 18 Jun 1829. He was baptized in the Evangelical Church in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt (now Germany) on 28 Jun 1829.

The Birth and Baptismal Record of Heinrich Seng - 1829

SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt), “Geburts=Protokoll der Pfarrei Kirtorf fí¼r das Jahr 1829. [Birth Records of the Kirtorf Parish for the Year 1829.],” page 608, Heinrich Seng, 28 June 1829; filmed as Kirchenbuch 1725-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 1,336,980, Item 1.

Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Heinrich Seng. 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:

608.
Heinrich, son of Philipp Seng.

1829

In the afternoon of Thursday, June eighteenth, in the year of the Lord, eighteen-hundred twenty-nine between twelve and one o’clock, after a credible report, the first child, a son, was born to Philipp Seng, citizen and baker here in Kirtorf and his wife Elisabetha née Lather, and on the twenty-first of the same month, the child was baptized, where he was given the name Heinrich.
          The sponsor was:
Heinrich Kringer, citizen and miller in Romrod, who has signed the present document next to the father and me, the rector and [mitprediger?] who performed the baptism.
[signed] Heinrich Kringer
[signed] Philipp Seng
[signed] Karl Gottfried Christian Ludwig [Brink?]

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