{"id":3705,"date":"2009-05-06T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/06\/3705\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T00:01:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T07:01:54","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-paul-lather-1841","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/3705","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Paul Lather – 1841"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 15 Feb 1841, Paul Lather, son 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 28 Feb 1841.<\/p>\n

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The Birth and Baptismal Record of Paul Lather – 1841<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Geburts=Protocoll der Gemeinde Kirtorf f\u00ed\u00bcr das Jahr 1841. [Birth Records of the Kirtorf Congregation for the Year 1841.],\u201d page 10, Paul Lather, 28 February 1841; filmed as Kirchenbuchduplikat 1808-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 0,855,109.<\/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 Paul 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

10<\/p>\n

Paul, Balthasar Lather’s Son<\/p>\n

Between four and five o’clock in the morning on February fifteenth in the year of the Lord eighteen-hundred forty-one, after a credible report, the third child and first son was born to Balthasar Lather, citizen and tailor here, and his wife Elisabetha Margaretha n\u00e9e Lather, and on the twenty-eighth of the same month he was baptized and given the name \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Paul\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The Sponsor was:<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Paul Sch\u00ed\u00a4fer, citizen and shoemaker here<\/p>\n

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

[signed] Paul Sch\u00ed\u00a4fer
\n[signed] Balthasar Lather
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [signed] Adolf Mann<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

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