{"id":3663,"date":"2009-04-24T00:01:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T07:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/24\/the-birth-and-baptism-of-johann-balthasar-lather-1815\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T00:01:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T07:01:29","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-johann-balthasar-lather-1815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/3663","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Johann Balthasar Lather &#8211; 1815"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 Sep 1815, Johann Balthasar Lather, son of Johann Georg Lather and Elisabetha Becker, 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 24 Sep 1815.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"The Birth and Baptismal Record of Johann Balthasar Lather - 1815\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/CRB-Lather-Johann-Balthazar-1815.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3661\" style=\"height: 358px;\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/CRB-Lather-Johann-Balthazar-1815.jpg\" alt=\"The Birth and Baptismal Record of Johann Balthasar Lather - 1815\" width=\"469\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong><em>The Birth and Baptismal Record of Johann Balthasar Lather &#8211; 1815<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 Duplum des Kirtorfer Kirchen Protokolls \u00ed\u00bcber die Gebohren desselbs de 1815. [Duplicate of the Kirtorf Church Records of those Born in 1815.],\u201d page 139, Johann Balthasar Lather, 24 September 1815; filmed as Kirchenbuchduplikat 1808-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 0,855,108.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Birth and Baptismal Record of <a id=\"p3662\" href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/CRB-Lather-Johann-Balthazar-1815.pdf\">Johann Balthasar Lather<\/a>. 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:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>139 P<\/p>\n<p>1815 Kirtorf<\/p>\n<p>In the morning, between six and seven o&#8217;clock on the eighteenth of September in the year of the Lord eighteen-hundred and fifteen, the first child, a son was born of the local citizen and butcher Johann Georg Lather of his wife Elisabetha n\u00e9e Becker. The child was baptized on the twenty-fourth of the same month where he was given the name Johann Balthasar.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0The Sponsors were:<\/p>\n<p>1; Johann Balthasar Becker, son of Johannes Becker, [cabinet maker?], [three words?]<\/p>\n<p>2; his father, [one word?] Johannes Becker<br \/>\nwho have signed and [one word?] this document next to the father and me, the minister.<\/p>\n<p>[signed] Johann Georg Lather; Johann Balthasar Becker<br \/>\n[signed] Johannes Becker; Christoph Carl [Keator?]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\">Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 18 Sep 1815, Johann Balthasar Lather, son of Johann Georg Lather and Elisabetha Becker, was born in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt (now Germany). 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