German Death certificate translation
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Translation please:
FYI This record is very confusing to us based on what we know Joseph Moessing because the ancestry index implies his wife is Johanna Birschel. We are hoping a compete translation and stamp tells a different story.
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Number 1770.
Berlin, on the 22nd of December 1930.
The director of the Municipal Hospital "am Urban" reported that the invalid Joseph Moessing, 79 years old, residing in Berlin, Kreuzbergstraße 24, born at Queetz, District Heilsberg, husband of Johanna, née Birschel, at Berlin in the Municipal Hospital "am Urban" on the 19th of December of the year 1930, in the afternoon at 2:15 pm died.
16 printed words struck-through.
The Civil Registrar
represented by
[signature]
Notes at the bottom:
Born: 29 June 1851.
Married: 5 December 1889, [at] Graudenz.
Comment: Here is the link for Graudenz from Meyers Gazetteer:
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Regarding your confusion about the wife Johanna Birschel:
Notice that Joseph Moessing's wife Elizabeth Marquart had her last child in February 1888.
Also note that you do not have a death date for Elizabeth Marquart.
Now notice that in Joseph's 1930 death record, one of the notes states that he married on 5 December 1889.
Johanna Birschel is likely Joseph's subsequent wife after Elizabeth Marquart. Elizabeth Marquart probably died sometime between the birth of the last child on 29 February 1888 and the second marriage date of 5 December 1889.
Of course you will need to find records to confirm this hypothesis.
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Thank you the birth and place records match the christening record we have for Joseph Moessing. We also knew that Joseph had gotten divorced, I guess we were just surprised he got remarried 2 years after the birth of the last child. We know his first wife lived till at least 1906.
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You're welcome, LayneM!
So it was a divorce rather than the death of Elizabeth Marquart that lead to the subsequent marriage with Johanna Birschel.
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