On 10 Sep 1835, Jost Lather, son of Johann Georg Lather and his second wife Helena Hissrich, was born in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt (now Germany). He was baptized in the parish church in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt (now Germany) on 27 Sep 1835.
The Birth and Baptismal Record of Jost Lather - 1835
SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt), “Geburts=Protokoll der Pfarrei Kirtorf fí¼r das Jahr 1835. [Birth Records of the Kirtorf Parish for the Year 1835.],” page 22, Jost Lather, 27 September filmed as Kirchenbuchduplikat 1808-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 0,855,108.
Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of Jost 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:
Jost, Georg Lather’s son
In the afternoon of September tenth, in the year of the Lord, eighteen-hundred thirty-five, between one and two o’clock, after a credible report, the fifth child, a son, specifically the third son of Georg Lather, citizen and tailor here, and his second wife Helena née Hissrich, and, on the twenty-seventh of the same month the child was baptized and given the name “Jost”.
         The sponsor was:
         Jost Hartmann, citizen and butcher here,
who has signed the present document next to the father of the child and me, the minister who performed the baptism.
         [signed] Jost Hartman
         [signed] Georg Lather
              [signed] Wolfgang Ernst Glí¼ckner
Copyright © 2009 by Stephen J. Danko
This is really awesome to look at. Jost Lather is my Great Great Grandfather on my father’s side.