Monday, March 2, 2015

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).



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