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Billie L. Hunt
Billie L. Hunt ✭
October 20 edited October 20 in Social Groups

Can someone please translate the last two words concering the wittnesses on this baptism record? "Governor of the _______ _______"

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  • Ulrich Neitzel
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    October 20 edited October 22 Answer ✓

    @Billie L. Hunt

    "… Gouverneur Schilling auf der Insel Amboine." = Governor Schilling on the island of Amboine.

    Amboine might be the island now called Ambon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambon_Island

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  • Billie L. Hunt
    Billie L. Hunt ✭
    October 31

    Thank you so much for taking the time to answer my request. Although I can usually, with the help of my dictionary, make out most of the words in a genealogical record, I would never have guessed the first letter of the location to be an "I"! I followed your suggestion and read the information on Ambon Island. Low and behold, Jacob Adam Schilling was the governor there from 1788 to 1794; the right time period. I now need to figure out why someone of German descent was in Indonesia!

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