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Tom Randolph
Tom Randolph ✭✭
April 20, 2022 edited September 9, 2024 in Social Groups

This 1725 birth record refers to Rohrbach in Bergzabern, Pfalz as 'in fur Pfaltz', but am not sure 'fur' is correct or what it means in this context, so advice welcome.

Would also appreciate a quick check of my transcription/translation, especially whether I got the sense of the 'Haben ...taufte und ... nenne lassen' construction right.

Thanks! Tom

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[1725] D[er] 25t febr Anna Maria

Haben Matthes Mantz burger alhier, und Eva dessen Ehel. haußfrau einer tochter taufte und Annam Mariam nennen lassen, gevattern waren Casimir Keidel ledigen stands Friederich Keidels burger alhier Ehe-r Sohn, und Anna Maria auch ledigen stand Hanß Jörg Hoffmanns burger zu Rohrbach in fur Pfaltz Ehel. Tocheter.

Translation:

[1725] The 25th February Anna Maria

Matthes Mantz, [middle class] citizen here, and his legimate wife Eva had a daughter baptized and name Anna Maria, godparents were Casimir Keidel, status single, legitimate son of Friederich Keidel, [middle class] citizen here, and Anna Maria also status single, legitimate daughter of Hanss Jörg Hoffmann, [middle class] citizen at Rohrbach in ?? Pfalz. 

Protestant Reformed Parish in Mühlhofen

* '''Baptism''': "Germany, Lutheran

Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, 1500-1971"<br/>Citing Baptism,

Billigheim, Bergzabern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland, Alsenz, Altenbamberg,

Asselheim, Billigheim u Dernbach, German Lutheran Collection, various parishes,

Germany.<br/>[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPRN-BL3J

FamilySearch] (accessed 13 December 2021)<br/>[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSWT-T18B

FamilySearch Image] Image number 00328<br/>Anna Maria Mantz baptism on 25

Feb 1725 in Billigheim, Bergzabern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland.

:Name: Anna Maria Mantz

:Sex: Female

:Baptism Date: 25 Feb 1725

:Baptism Place: Billigheim, Bergzabern, Rheinland-Pfalz, Deutschland

:Baptism Place (Original): Billigheim, Mühlhofen, Alsenz, Altenbamberg, Asselheim, Billigheim u Dernbach, Bayern, Preußen

:Father's Name: Matthes Mantz

:Mother's Name: Annam Mariam

:Page Number: 13

:Church Name: Evangelisch-Reformierte Kirche Alsenz (BA. Rockenhausen)

:Note: Heiraten, Tote, Taufen u Konfirmationen 1715-1895,

 KONFIRMATIONEN 1809-1859

FamilySearch image not currently available, so image downloaded from Archion.de; Image 17:

https://www.archion.de/en/viewer/?no_cache=1&type=churchRegister&uid=52125

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  • Ulrich Neitzel
    Ulrich Neitzel ✭✭✭✭✭
    April 20, 2022 Answer ✓

    @Tom Randolph

    The word is Churpfaltz, in modern spelling Kurpfalz, in English "Electoral Palatinate", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Palatinate

    Here is my proofreading of your transcription:

    Haben Matthes Mantz Bürger alhier, undt Eva dessen Ehel. Haußfrau einer Tochter tauffen undt Annam Mariam nennen lassen, Gevattern waren Casimir Steidel ledigen stands Friederich Steidels Bürger alhier Ehl. Sohn, undt Anna Maria auch ledigen stand Hanß Jörg Hoffmanns Bürger zu Rohrbach in ChurPfaltz Ehel. Tocheter.

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  • Tom Randolph
    Tom Randolph ✭✭
    April 20, 2022

    @Ulrich Neitzel : Thanks once again!

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