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Lewis Klapka
Lewis Klapka ✭✭
April 27, 2024 edited May 14, 2024 in Social Groups

Please help with the translation of this birth record. The date of birth is 17 May 1759, childs name is Anna Dorota Neumam or Dorota Anna Neuman, Father's name is Vaclav and mother's name I believe is Veronika. I am confused about the child's given name I was expecting it to be Dorothea but it appears to be Anna,

This birth record can be found in the Prague Regional Archives in the Parish of Beroun register of births book 7 ,1739-1780, page 257, image 252, record 5.

https://ebadatelna.soapraha.cz/d/3909/252Thank You

Lewis Klapka

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  • Betseylee Browning
    Betseylee Browning ✭✭✭
    April 29, 2024

    In Czech it is usual to have one given name. https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Czechia_Naming_Customs

    In German https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Germany_Naming_Customs

    There is one more guide: https://www.fbiic.gov/public/2008/nov/Naming_practice_guide_UK_2006.pdf

    Her name is Anna Dorota. Try the sound button on Translate.google.com. to hear how to day it. It is not like our Dorothea. https://translate.google.com/?sl=cs&tl=en&text=Dorota&op=translate

    This site has common surnames but has a crazy name: https://www.familyeducation.com/baby-names/surname/origin/czech?page=9

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  • Betseylee Browning
    Betseylee Browning ✭✭✭
    April 29, 2024 edited April 29, 2024

    https://mapy.cz/zakladni?q=Beroun&source=muni&id=3579&ds=2&x=14.0699425&y=49.9556720&z=12 Beroun on the new map and on an old map. Maybe you can figure out the town where they were from Kez_rovklatu or Kezirovklatze/zi. Waczlava's surname looks like Neumova. I did find the surname Neüman in one of the indexes. https://ebadatelna.soapraha.cz/d/3942/113 The wife is Veroniky.

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  • Jitka201
    Jitka201 ✭
    April 29, 2024

    well it's not that uncommon to have two given names in czechia, also she could have been called Dorota and the name Anna was her baptist name which she did not use in everyday life and so it doesn't have to appear in later records or the other way around

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  • Betseylee Browning
    Betseylee Browning ✭✭✭
    April 30, 2024 edited May 3, 2024

    Thanks Jitka. I was using the FamilySearch Czechia Wiki article I posted which said it was not usual but I have found multiple people with two or more people. Because of what the article said I amended my first reply. This is what the article stated, "Surnames[edit | edit source]

    Czech names are composed of a given name and a family name (surname). Czechs typically get one given name – additional names may be chosen by themselves upon baptism but they generally use one. With marriage, the bride typically adopts the bridegroom's surname. [1]"

    Betseylee

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