{"id":4955,"date":"2009-07-06T22:57:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T05:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=4955"},"modified":"2009-07-06T22:57:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T05:57:06","slug":"the-birth-and-baptism-of-heinrich-seng-1829","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/4955","title":{"rendered":"The Birth and Baptism of Heinrich Seng – 1829"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heinrich Seng, son of Philipp Seng and his wife Elisabetha Lather, was born on 18 Jun 1829. He was baptized in the Evangelical Church in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hesse-Darmstadt (now Germany) on 28 Jun 1829.<\/p>\n

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The Birth and Baptismal Record of Heinrich Seng - 1829<\/p><\/div>\n

SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Hessen-Darmstadt), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Geburts=Protokoll der Pfarrei Kirtorf f\u00ed\u00bcr das Jahr 1829. [Birth Records of the Kirtorf Parish for the Year 1829.],\u201d page 608, Heinrich Seng, 28 June 1829; filmed as Kirchenbuch 1725-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 1,336,980, Item 1.<\/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 Heinrich Seng<\/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

608.
\nHeinrich, son of Philipp Seng.<\/p>\n

1829<\/p>\n

In the afternoon of Thursday, June eighteenth, in the year of the Lord, eighteen-hundred twenty-nine between twelve and one o’clock, after a credible report, the first child, a son, was born to Philipp Seng, citizen and baker here in Kirtorf and his wife Elisabetha n\u00e9e Lather, and on the twenty-first of the same month, the child was baptized, where he was given the name Heinrich.
\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The sponsor was:
\nHeinrich Kringer, citizen and miller in Romrod, who has signed the present document next to the father and me, the rector and [mitprediger?] who performed the baptism.
\n[signed] Heinrich Kringer
\n[signed] Philipp Seng
\n[signed] Karl Gottfried Christian Ludwig [Brink?]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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