« Reply #1 on: Monday 17 July 23 20:55 BST (UK) »
Hi Karinann
You are right that an illegitimate child would get the surname of the mother if the father is not known.
Did you find these informations (Surname of mother and surname of child?) in the baptism record?
Do you know where Dorothea Unger lived? Is it likely that she married somebody called Bergamin and her illegitimate son was adopted?
It is more than not the case that the mother of an illegitimate child made an affiliation case in these times. For an inquiry about district court records it is the best to write to the county archive (Staatsarchiv Graubünden) in Chur,
info@sag.gr.ch /
www.staatsarchiv.gr.chSchleuis is the name used until 1983 for the todays place called Schluein which is situated near Ilanz anyway.
It would be interesting what was recorded in the place where Dorothea Unger had her citizenship. In the Register of Swiss Surnames for this period of time were very few places of citizenship for the surname Unger, see attachment. Safien is only "over the mountains" of Ilanz situated in the next valley direction Chur.
Most likely the church records of Safien, if they are existing, are in the states archive (Staatsarchiv) in Chur.
Acheson, Coffey, Casey, Ahearn, Kennedy, Hughes, Hearn, Gamble, Norwood, Carroll, Gray, Powell, Power, Hennebry, Rainsberry, Lyndop, Lester, Caesar.
Wunderli, Wanner, Frei, Koneth, Mäder, Häuptli, Tobler, Pletscher, Stamm, Schiess, Signer, Meyer, Burkhard, Knupp, Stünzi, Usteri, Zeller, Heusi
