Is this a child's death?
The record in question is on the left side, second from the bottom. It seems like this is a child of kötter Jasper. Death on the 15th of Feb and burial on the 17th.
- I can't figure out that first word
- I can't figure out the word after "geboren sp?"
THANKS FOR THE HELP!
https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/vechta/damme-st-viktor/KB16/?pg=166
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Yes, a boys death and burial:
Todt geborene Knabe des Kötter Jasper
I would read it as "Dead is a boy born to the Kötter Jasper"
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Steve and Greg:
The word "todtgeboren" specifically means: stillborn.
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Thank you Robert!
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After I submitted this question, I found this unnamed boy's birth record. It is #29 on the left side. There is a little discrepancy with the birth date between the birth and death records. Birth record states he was born on 16 Feb; the death record uses a ditto mark to indicate the birth was the 15 Feb.
BIRTH: https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/vechta/damme-st-viktor/KB17/?pg=71
DEATH: https://data.matricula-online.eu/en/deutschland/vechta/damme-st-viktor/KB16/?pg=166
My feeling is the scribe made an error with the ditto mark and should have indicated the 16th. Also, since there is not a baptism date, that suggests there was no baptism. That seems to support the idea that the child was stillborn. Any thoughts on that theory?
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That is definitely the birth record for the same child. It also says the child is todtgeboren (stillborn) and has the same parents names.
Note that this record is typically made on the baptism date (not the birth date) and the record before it was a baptism on the 17th and the record after it was a baptism on the 18th. Therefore, this entry was almost certainly made on the 17th of February on the same date the burial was recorded. So I don't think we can tell whether the 15 Feb or the 16 Feb date is correct since neither entry was made on the actual date of birth.
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