{"id":4087,"date":"2009-06-07T23:08:15","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T06:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=4087"},"modified":"2009-06-07T23:08:15","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T06:08:15","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-johann-georg-lather-1810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/4087","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Johann Georg Lather -1810"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On 20 Oct 1810, Johann Georg Lather, son of Elias Lather and Anna Elisabetha Schmitt, was born in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt (now Germany). He was baptized in the Evangelical Church in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt (now Germany) on 23 Oct 1810.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4088\" style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/crb-lather-johann-georg-1810.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4088\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4088 \" title=\"The Birth and Baptismal Record of Johann Georg Lather - 1810\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/crb-lather-johann-georg-1810-1024x1021.jpg\" alt=\"The Birth and Baptismal Record of Johann Georg Lather - 1810\" width=\"432\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Birth and Baptismal Record of Johann Georg Lather - 1810<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Duplum des Kirtorfer Kirchen &#8211; Protokoll \u00ed\u00bcber die gebohren desselbs de 1810. [Duplicate of the Kirtorf Church and Birth Records of those Born in 1810.],\u201d page 67, Johann Georg Lather, 23 October 1810; 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 href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/crb-lather-johann-georg-1810.pdf\">Johann Georg 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>6<span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">0<\/span>7 P<br \/>\nJohann Georg [several words?] son of Elias Lather<br \/>\n1810 Kirtorf October<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the day, between eleven and twelve o&#8217;clock on the twentieth of October in the year of the Lord eighteen-hundred and ten, the third child and second son was born of the local citizen and butcher Elias Lather and his wife Elisabetha n\u00e9e Schmidt. The child was baptized on the twenty-third of the same month where he was given the name Johann Georg.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0The Sponsors were:<br \/>\n1, Johann Georg Lather, son of the deceased Reinhard Lather, former citizen and [three words?]<br \/>\n2. his mother, Maria Lather, [two words?] Reinhard Lather [two words?]<br \/>\nwho have signed and [one word?] this document next to the father and me, the deacon who performed the baptism.<br \/>\n[signed] Elias Lather; Johann Andreas Nann<br \/>\n[signed] Johann Georg Lather; +++ [several words?]<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 [three words?]; Christoph Carl [Keator?]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. 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