Amanuensis Monday: Johann STROESSER’s birth certificate

The stork visited my great-great-grandparents Peter STROESSER and Barbara THINES for the sixth time on 14 May 1881.

This image has been trimmed from the original at FamilySearch.

Transcription (the italicized parts were handwritten on the record):

Im Jahre tausend acht hundert ein und achtzig, den fünfzehnten

des Monats Mai um neun Uhr Vor mittags ist vor Uns

Joahnn Edouard Brassel, Bürgermeister Beamten des Civilstandes

der Gemeinde folschette , im Kanton Redingen , Gross=

herzogthum Luxemburg, erschienen Peter Stroesser

alt vierzig sieben Jahre Eisenhändler

wohnhaft zu Schvidelbrouch , welcher Uns ein Kind mannlichen

Geschlechts vorgestellt hat, geboren Schvidelbrouch gestern

um zehn Uhr Vor mittags, im Hause Nr. -- Gasse,

erzeugt von Zie Conparentan und seiner Ehegattin Barbara Thinnes

alt dreißig sieben Jahre, ohne Stand, wohnhaft in selben Orte

und welchem er den Vornamen Johann

geben zu wollen erklärt hat.

Diese Erklärung und Vorstellung sind geschehen in Gegenwart des Johann Peter Kloth

-- , alt vierzig acht Jahre Handelsmann

wohnhaft zu Folschette und des Johann Claren

Sohn , alt zwanzig sieben Jahre Aus rufer

wohnhaft zu Rambrouch und haben die Comparenten diese

Urkunde, nachdem sie ihnen vorgelesen worden, mit Uns unterschrieben.

Line by line Translation:

In the Year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, the fifteenth

of the Month of May at nine o'clock Before noon is before Us

Johann Edouard Brassel, Burgermeister Officials of the Civil State

of the Commune of folschette , in the Canton Redange , Grand-

duchy of Luxembourg, appeared Peter Stroesser

aged forty-seven Years Ironmonger

residing in Schwiedelbrouch , which to us a child of the male

Gender has presented, born in Schwiedelbrouch yesterday

at ten O’clock Before noon, in House No. -- Street,

begat by The Appearing Party and his Wife Barbara Thinnes

aged thirty-seven Years, without Position, residing in the same place

and which to him the First Name Johann

has declared to want to give.

This Statement and Presentation are done in the Presence Johann Peter Kloth

-- , aged forty-eight Years Merchant

residing in Folschette and Johann Claren

Junior , aged twenty-seven Years Town crier

residing in Rambrouch and the Appearing Parties have this

Deed, having been read to them, with us signed.

Incidentally, I love that one of the witnesses on this certificate is the town crier. It certainly reminds one that this was another time and another place!

Oh, and if you have found a birth certificate from Luxembourg that you would like to try to transcribe and translate, I am starting to get a fair-sized collection of templates posted. In honor of Johann STROESSER I have added one for the year 1881.

Source:

Folschette, Luxembourg, birth certificate no. 17 (1881), Johann Stroesser; digital image #938 of 1489, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, “Naissances 1821-1890 Mariages 1800-1823, 1797-1830,” FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 11 Jul 2010).