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Another translation from Alte Schrift
« on: Wednesday 06 April 22 14:29 BST (UK) »
I seem to encounter numerous records in old German script. This one from Pennsylvania in 1843.

I wonder if someone can parse these record(s)

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Re: Another translation from Alte Schrift
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 07 April 22 09:04 BST (UK) »
Have you got a larger clip?
whole page maybe

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Re: Another translation from Alte Schrift
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 07 April 22 12:17 BST (UK) »
I have no idea how all this fits together

I read
Juni den 23 sten Mrs Evelina Souville
Carl Sigesmond Souville

Charles S Souville
Evelina

Anna Loyd
geb(oren) den 5ten April 1839
get(auft) den 23 Juni 1843

on the righthand side top – Gattin der : wife of
on the righthand side bottom – Eltern : Parents

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Re: Another translation from Alte Schrift
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 07 April 22 14:21 BST (UK) »
Thanks for looking it over! Here is the full page. Charles Sigismond Souville  and his wife Evelina had a son Amos Lloyd Souville. The "double" entry is odd as everything is just baptisms, so it's mysterious. I've looked at numerous pages in this book and this is the only double entry I have found.

Charles' first name was translated as Carl in the normal way on a German record.

I can't find a wedding (this appears to be a second wife but the first is even more mysterious.)


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Re: Another translation from Alte Schrift
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 07 April 22 14:55 BST (UK) »
What place is this

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Re: Another translation from Alte Schrift
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 07 April 22 15:46 BST (UK) »
I can't make out the final column, which might give a vital clue, but is this an adult baptism for the mother Evelina immediately before their son was baptised?

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Re: Another translation from Alte Schrift
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 07 April 22 16:22 BST (UK) »
Good work. well seen

the final column says Gattin der (wife of)
and Eltern (Parents)

So the first baptism was for Mrs Evelina Souville wife of Carl Sigismond Souville

the second the baptism for Amos Souville parents Carl S Souville and Evelina

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Re: Another translation from Alte Schrift
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 07 April 22 16:35 BST (UK) »
Good work. well seen

the final column says Gattin der (wife of)
and Eltern (Parents)

So the first baptism was for Mrs Evelina Souville wife of Carl Sigismond Souville

the second the baptism for Amos Souville parents Carl S Souville and Evelina

Yes that's interesting and something that never occurred to me! The church was Trinity Lutheran Church, Reading, Pennsylvania. If only it gave her maiden name!

Thank you both so much.

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Re: Another translation from Alte Schrift
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 07 April 22 16:54 BST (UK) »