Hungarian Death Records
I am looking for help with 3 Hungarian death records. I only have images of these records.
All of these records have the surname Török. The first image (torok ersebet death 1787) contains two records the first has a date of 20 Jan 1787 and the second a date of 20 Mar 1797.
The second image (torok maria death 1799) contains one record with a date of 28 Oct 1799.
I can get nothing from these death records other than the name of the deceased. Is there anything in these records such as parents, spouse, age that would help me with further research of the deceased.
Thank You
Lewis Klapka
Answers
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Um, no, don't send this pastor any thank-you notes via time machine.
1787
20 January. Buried Erzsébeth Török, a 6-year-old little girl.
1799
18 October. Mária Török, one and a half year old girl.
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Thank You Julia. The age of the deceased was a little help, perhaps I can find a birth record based on their age. There was a second record in the first image which you did not comment on. The date of the record is
20 Mar 1797. If this record has the age of the deceased it would be helpful.
Lewis Klapka
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Oops, sorry, Lou; I've been mostly away from the internet since Monday, and for some reason, your replies weren't marked as "new".
1797
20th of March. Mária Török, a one and a half year old child.
Knowing the words is half the battle for reading these things, so: the word for one and a half is másfél, which comes out something like "other half" if you parse it literally. (You can continue the sequence: harmadfél "one-third half" for 2 1/2, negyedfél "one-fourth half" for 3 1/2, and so on. None but másfél are actually used modernly, but Reformed pastors of the 18th and 19th century were exactly the sort of Hungarian neologists who would have used "one-third-half". And my eternally-homesick father was exactly the sort to teach such things to his mathematically-inclined daughters.)
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