{"id":3713,"date":"2009-05-08T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/the-birth-and-baptism-of-christina-lather-1846\/"},"modified":"2009-05-08T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T07:01:52","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-christina-lather-1846","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/3713","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Christina Lather – 1846"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 09 Sep 1846, Christina 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 27 Sep 1846.<\/p>\n

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The Birth and Baptismal Record of Christina Lather – 1846<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Geburts=Protocoll der Gemeinde Kirtorf f\u00ed\u00bcr 1846. [Birth Records of the Kirtorf Congregation for 1846.],\u201d page 34, Christina Lather, 27 September 1846; 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 Christina 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

34<\/p>\n

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

Between eleven and twelve o’clock at night on September ninth in the year of the Lord eighteen-hundred forty-six, after a credible report, the fifth child and second daughter was born to Balthasar Lather, citizen and tailor here, and his wife Elisabetha Margaretha n\u00e9e Lather, and on the twenty-seventh of the same month she was baptized and given the name Christina.<\/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 Christina, wife of Christoph Philipp Lather, tailor here,<\/p>\n

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

[signed] Christina Lather
\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":"

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