{"id":3698,"date":"2009-05-04T00:01:13","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/the-birth-and-baptism-of-dorothea-lather-1837\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T00:01:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T07:01:13","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-dorothea-lather-1837","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/3698","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Dorothea Lather – 1837"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 20 May 1837, Dorothea 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 04 June 1837.<\/p>\n

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The Birth and Baptismal Record of Dorothea Lather – 1837<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Geburts=Protokoll der Gemeinde Kirtorf f\u00ed\u00bcr das Jahr 1837. [Birth Records of the Kirtorf Congregation for the Year 1837.],\u201d page 15, Dorothea Lather, 04 June 1837; filmed as Kirchenbuchduplikat 1808-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 0,855,108.<\/p>\n

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

15<\/p>\n

Dorothea, Balthasar Lather’s Daughter<\/p>\n

Between one and two o’clock in the afternoon of May twentieth in the year of the Lord eighteen-hundred thirty-seven, after a credible report, the first child, a daughter, was born to Balthasar Lather, citizen and tailor here, and his wife Elisabetha n\u00e9e Lather and, on June fourth, the child was baptized and given the name Dorothea.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The sponsor was:
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Dorothea Becker, the only legitimate daughter of Balthasar Becker, farmer<\/p>\n

who has signed the present document next to the father of the child and me, the minister who performed the baptism.<\/p>\n

[signed] Dorothea Beckerr
\n[signed] Balthasar Lather
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [signed] Wolfgang Ernst Gl\u00ed\u00bcckner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 20 May 1837, Dorothea 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 04 June 1837. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[89],"tags":[196,204],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lather","tag-hesse-darmstadt","tag-kirtorf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-XE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}