Q. about notation in 1811 baptism record from Sulingen
I may have asked this question before, but does the notation listed after each parent's name in these records (looks like a number 6 with a short cross through the stem) , followed by a village name indicate that the parent was born in that village?
For example in Record #24 (attached screenshot), the father J. Wilh. Nuttelm is followed by the notation and "Gr[oß] Lessen" and the mother Soph. Mar. Schütte is followed by the notation and "Varrel".
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Hi @Robt_Nielsen,
Yes, I thought your description was on the mark: the number 6 with a slash through the stem.
I did find a Latin abbreviation that was a lower-case script "b" with a slash through the stem, but that is a word suffix which represents: "ber", so that doesn't make sense here.
I think you should operate on the assumption that the father was born/came from Gross Lessen, and the mother was born/came from Varrel.
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Hello @Robt_Nielsen,
I've checked four or five German genealogy symbol pages online as well as several reference books in my own collection and have not found this symbol.
As you probably already did, I checked each word after the symbol in the four records in the image you posted, and each of the words are places near and around Sulingen: Gross Lessen; Varrel, Vorwohlde; Stehler, Feldhausen.
Given the context of the symbol in these record it may mean "born" in these places, but keep an open mind that it may also mean "from" or "of" these places.
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@Robert Seal_1 Thanks for the response.
Would you agree that the symbol looks like a number 6 (or possibly German "s") with a short cross through the stem?
Or is that my imagination?
FYI, subsequent records in this registry (1814 below, 1819) list the father's name something like...
"Joh. Wilh. Nuttelmann -- Gr. Lessen" without that unusual symbol, but the mother's entry still including that symbol.
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Thanks @Robert Seal_1
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The symbol looks remarkably like an "E". But I cannot come up with a word that it might represent. Einwohner doesn't make sense because the husband and wife would be inhabitants of the same town in a baptism record.
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Thanks @JohnsonGreg
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