Amanuensis Monday: Barbara THINES’ birth certificate

Since there are still so many records to present in my Luxembourg record project, I think it good policy to post two at a time whenever possible. Therefore, today will see the birth of both my great-great-grandparents, Peter STROESSER and Barbara THINES.

I have already summarized the life of my great-great grandmother Barbara THINES, but as this project is intended more as a presentation of my sources, here is her birth certificate.

This image has been trimmed from the original at FamilySearch.

 

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

Im Jahre tausend achthundert vier und vierzig, den sechsten Tag des

Monats Maÿ , um zwei Uhr des Nachtmittags ist,

vor uns Jean francois Laporte Burgemeister , Beamter des Civilstandes des Gemeinde

von Heltzingen , Kanton von Clerff , im Groß=Herzogthum

Lutzemburg, erschienen Michel Thines oder Theines Ackerer wohnhaft zu Heltzingen

alt dreyßig sieben Jahre, vater des Kindes

wohnhaft in dieser Gemeinde, welcher uns erklart hat dass seine ehfrau anne marie

Schmidt ohnegewerb alt dreyßig sechs Jahre wohnhaft zu Heltzingen, gestern

um eilf Uhr des vormittags ein Kind gebohren hat vom weiblichen

geschlecht und welches er uns vengezeigt hat.

und welchem er des Vornamen Barbara

geben zu wollen erklärt hat.

Welche Erklärung und Vorstellung in Gegenwart des Phillippe schmitz Ackerer,

alt vierzig drei Jahre, vun Weiler

und des Peter Thull feldhuter, alt vierzig vier

Jahre, von Hoffelt die in dieser Gemeinde wohnhaft sind, Statt gehabt haben;

und haben zeugen mit dem vater und mit mir

den gegenwärtigen Geburts=Akt, nachdem er ihnen vorher vorgelesen worden ist, mit uns unterschrieben.

Line by line Translation:

In the Year one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, the sixth Day of the

Month of May at two o'clock in the Afternoon is

before us Jean francois Laporte Mayor Officials of the Civil State of the Commune

of Hachiville , Canton of Clervaux , in the Grand-Duchy

Luxembourg, appeared Michel Thines otherwise Theines Farmer residing in Hachiville

aged thirty-seven Years, father of the Child

residing in this Commune, which to us has declared that his wife anne marie

Schmidt without occupation aged thirty-six Years residing in Hachiville, yesterday

at eleven O’clock in the before-noon had a Child of the female

gender and which he has shown before us.

and which he the First Name Barbara

has declared to want to give.

Which Statement and Presentation in the Presence of Phillippe schmitz Farmer,

aged forty three Years, of Weiler

and Peter Thull field watchman, aged forty-four

Years, of Hoffelt residing in this Commune, Instead have had;

and have testified to the father and to me

the current Birth-Deed, after having been previously read to them, with us signed.

Source:

Hachiville, Clervaux, Luxembourg, birth certificate no. 8 (1844), Barbara Thines; digital image #131, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, “Naissances 1828-1844,” FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 27 Jun 2010).