Amanuensis Monday: Peter STROESSER’s (Harry’s dad’s) birth certificate

Ah, I feel such a sense of completion now that I have finished presenting all the Luxembourgish sources for Harry STROESSER and his siblings. But there is still much to come: now we move back a generation and look at Harry’s parents. Today it is his father, Peter STROESSER.

Peter STROESSER was the son of another Peter STROESSER and his wife Anna Maria MERTZ, the fifth child of a total of eleven. He was born on 4 June 1834 in Ettelbrück, Diekirch, Luxembourg.

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

Im Jahre tausend acht hundert vier und dreißig, den Sechsten des

Monats Juni , um vier Uhr des Nachmittag ist,

vor uns Wilhelm hackmans , Beamter des Civilstandes der Gemeinde

von Ettelbruck , Kanton von Diekirch , in der Provinz

Lützemburg, erschienen Peter Stroesser

alt dreyzig sechs Jahre, Vater des Neugebohrnen

wohnhaft in dieser Gemeinde, welcher uns Ein Kind vor gezeigt gebohren

den Vier um dieses Monats um acht, dass des Morgens.

von seiner Ehefrau Anna maria Mertz sind

ihm vater dieses Kind männlichen Geschleicht

und welchem er den Vornamen Peter

geben zu wollen erklärt hat.

Welche Erklärung und Vorstellung in Gegenwart des Johann Herr

Sattler , alt dreyzig zwei Jahre, von Ettelbruck

und des Joseph Chomé , alt zwanzig zwei

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

und haben

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

unterschriben.

Line by line Translation:

In the Year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, the Sixth of the

Month of June at four o'clock in the Afternoon is

before us Wilhelm hackmans Officials of the Civil State of the Commune

of Ettelbruck , Canton of Diekirch , in the Province

Luxembourg, appeared Peter Stroesser

aged thirty six Years, Father of the Newborn

residing in this Commune, which to us A Child before shown born

the Four of this Month at eight, that Morning

of his Wife Anna maria Mertz is

his father this Child male Gendered

and which he the First Name Peter

has declared to want to give.

Which Statement and Presentation in the Presence of Johann Herr

Saddler , aged thirty two Years, of Ettelbruck

and Joseph Chomé , aged twenty two

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

and have

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

signed

Obviously, the phrasing of the German in this certificate has left me puzzled for an elegant translation, but I believe the meaning is still comprehensible.

Source:

Ettelbrück, Diekirch, Luxembourg, birth certificate no. 61 (1834), Peter Stroesser; digital image #1295 of 1477, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, “Naissances 1797-1804 Naissances, mariages, décès 1804-1805 Naissances 1805-1838,” FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 19 Oct 2014).