{"id":5314,"date":"2009-08-02T23:29:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T06:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/?p=5314"},"modified":"2009-08-02T23:29:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T06:29:28","slug":"the-marriage-of-philipp-seng-and-elisabetha-lather-1828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/5314","title":{"rendered":"The Marriage of Philipp Seng and Elisabetha Lather &#8211; 1828"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 Apr 1828, Philipp Seng and Elisabetha Lather were married in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Starkenburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5315\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/CRM-Seng-Philipp-and-Lather-Elisabetha-1828.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5315\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5315\" title=\"The Marriage Record of Philipp Seng and Elisabetha Lather - 1828\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/CRM-Seng-Philipp-and-Lather-Elisabetha-1828-586x1024.jpg\" alt=\"The Marriage Record of Philipp Seng and Elisabetha Lather - 1828\" width=\"382\" height=\"703\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Marriage Record of Philipp Seng and Elisabetha Lather - 1828<\/p><\/div>\n<p>SOURCE: Kirtorf Evangelische Kirche (Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Starkenburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine), \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Copulations=Protocoll der Pfarrei Kirtorf 1808-1875 [Marriage Records of the Kirtorf Parish 1808-1875.],\u201d page 180, Philipp Seng and Elisabetha Lather, 20 April 1828; filmed as Kirchenbuch 1725-1875; FHL INTL microfilm 1,336,981, Item 3.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image above to enlarge it. Click on the link for a PDF copy of the Marriage Record of <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/CRM-Seng-Philipp-and-Lather-Elisabetha-1828.pdf\">Philipp Seng and Elisabetha Lather<\/a> &#8211; 1828. 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>180. Phillip Seng and Elisabetha Lather<\/p>\n<p>x the required proclamations were made in three weeks, error, the margin is valid. Spamer.<\/p>\n<p>1828<br \/>\nThe following were married and legally blessed on the twentieth of April in the year of the Lord eighteen-hundred and twenty-eight in the local parish church and in the parish church in Breidenbach am Herzberg x with the permission of the bridegroom&#8217;s guardian Kasper Eidt, resident of Oberjossa, and also the parents of the bride:<br \/>\nPhilipp Seng, legitimately born, unmarried son of the deceased Johann Henrich Seng, former resident and innkeeper in Oberjossa in Kurhesse, Ziegenhain Kreisampt, and the deceased Maria Christina n\u00e9e Bauer, newly beginning citizen and baker here in Kirtorf, born on the 11th of December 1804, and<br \/>\nElisabetha Lather, legitimately born, unmarried daughter of Elias Lather, citizen and baker here, and Anna Elisabetha n\u00e9e Schmidt, born on the 3rd of January 1807.<br \/>\n\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Witnesses were:<br \/>\n1) Johann Kaspar hock, young woman: school teacher,<br \/>\n2) Elias Lather, father of the bride,<br \/>\nwho have signed the present document next to me, the minister who performed the marriage.<br \/>\n[signed] Johann Kaspar Hock<br \/>\n[signed] Elias Lather. Johann Konrad Spamer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2009 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 20 Apr 1828, Philipp Seng and Elisabetha Lather were married in Kirtorf, Alsfeld Kreis, Starkenburg, Grand Duchy of Hesse and by Rhine. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/5314\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[89,130],"tags":[196,204],"class_list":["post-5314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lather","category-seng","tag-hesse-darmstadt","tag-kirtorf"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-1nI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314","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=5314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}