Amanuensis Monday: Baltasar STROESSER’s birth certificate

This week’s document in my current project is the birth certificate of my great-grandfather Harry STROESSER’s eldest brother, Baltasar. He seems to be the one everyone remembers, simply because his name is so much fun to say. (Sadly, there was no Caspar or Melchior in the family to round out the wise men.)

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

Im Jahre tausend acht hundert fünf und siebenzig, den siebenzehnten

des Monats Juni um neun Uhr Vor mittags ist vor Uns

Theodore Welbes Bürgermeister Beamten des Civilstandes

der Gemeinde Wahl , im Kanton Redingen , Grossher=

zogthum Luxemburg, erschienen Stroesser Peter Eisenhändeler

alt vierzig ein Jahre

wohnhaft zu Heispelt , welche Uns ein Kind männlichen

Geschlechts vorgestellt, hat geboren zu Heispelt Vorgestern um

Elf Uhr Nachmittags von ihm Deklarenten und seiner

Ehefrau Thines Barbara ohne Gewerb alt dreißig ein Jahre

und welchem er den Vornamen Baltasar

geben zu wollen erklärt hat.

Diese Erklärung und Vorstellung sind geschehen in Gegenwart des Flammang Martin

Feldhüter , alt vierzig vier Jahre

wohnhaft zu Heispelt und des Reuter Nicolas Wegewärter

alt vierzig acht Jahre

wohnhaft zu Wahl und haben des Vater des Kinder

und beide zeugen die gegenwärtige Urkunde,

nachdem sie ihnen vorgelesen worden, mit Uns unterschrieben.

 

Line by line Translation:

In the Year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-six, the seventeenth

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

Theodore Welbes Burgermeister Officials of the Civil State

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

duchy of Luxembourg, appeared Stroesser Peter Iron Merchant

aged forty-one Years

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

Gender presented, born in Heispelt the Day Before Yesterday at

Eleven O’clock After Noon by the Declarer and his

Wife Thines Barbara without Occupation aged thirty-one Years

and which he the First Name Baltasar

has declared to want to give.

This Statement and Presentation are done in the Presence of Flammang Martin

Field Watchman , aged forty-four Years

residing in Heispelt and Reuter Nicolas Road Watchman

aged forty-eight Years

residing in Wahl and have the Father of the Child

and both witnesses the present Deed,

having been read to them, with us signed.

Balthasar never emigrated from Luxembourg, but married, spent his life, and died there. Therefore, he will be making at least a couple more appearances during the course of this project.

And, of course, I have added the template for 1875 birth certificates to my collection.

Source:

Wahl, Redange, Luxembourg, birth certificate no. 21 (1875), Baltasar Stroesser; digital image #119, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, "Naissances 1867-1890-- RINDSCHLEIDEN: Mariages 1796-1797, 1800-1804, 1805-1823 -- WAHL: Mariages 1796-1803, 1805-1890 -," FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 30 May 2010).