Translation request please

Jared Lee Sommer

https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/13680892?mark=7b22746f6b656e223a226b32544468454867537264425358544d48445741686d5442634f364e6156735236776a4e75526f4a7a41553d222c22746f6b656e5f76657273696f6e223a225632227d

Robert Seal_1

Hello @Jared Lee Sommer,

I previously translated this death record for you on 9 September.

Here is the translation again:

Number 224.
Lauban, on 21 July 1916.

Before the undersigned civil registrar today the provost of Lauban made the official notification in writing that Karoline Pohl, single, without occupation, 77 years old, Evangelical religion, residing in Sächsisch-Haugsdorf, District Lauban, born at Gersdorf, District Bunzlau, daughter of the shoemaker Karl Gottlieb Pohl and his wife Rosina, née Scholz, both deceased last residing in Gersdorf, District Bunzlau, died at Lauban in the cloister infirmary on the 20th of July of the year 1916 at 8:00 pm.

(14 printed words above have been struck-through.)

The Civil Registrar: Prohl.

Certified to be in agreement with the Main Register
Lauban, on the 21st of July 1916.
The Civil Registrar: Prohl.

My comments:

Sächsische Haugsdorf: https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20663074

Gersdorf: https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10564035

Jared Lee Sommer

Robert-

Thanks for all of your help. Sorry for duplicating that last one. I thought it sounded familiar but it didn't see it until you said that she was single… I have a separate question. I have a Wagenknecht family DNA relationship on Ancestry from Australia. Their Wagenknecht comes from a town called "Dittmansdorf", Schlesien, Preussen. If they are DNA related, it would seem that it would be near Gersdorf am Quies. I notice that the towns in Meyersgaz are not all labelled or they have multiple duplicate names. Would you be more familiar where the right Dittmannsdorf would more likely be located? Thanks!

Robert Seal_1

Hello @Jared Lee Sommer,

Note the jurisdictional hierachy for Gersdorf 12) Queis: Gersdorf, Bunzlau, Liegnitz, Schlesien, Preussen,

While there are a number of places called Dittmannsdorf in Silesia (Schlesien), there's only one with Liegnitz in its jurisdictional hierarchy: https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10351013

This is likely the Dittmannsdorf you are looking for.

JohnsonGreg

@Jared Lee Sommer

Is it possible that she was actually born in https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/10564036 (only 4 miles from Dittmannsdorf) and the person reporting her birth location in the death record assumed it was the Bunzlau Gersdorf?

Robert Seal_1

Yes, that's possible. Keep both options for Gersdorf open until your research is able to confirm one or the other.

Jared Lee Sommer

The strange thing is that my Wagenknect and Pohl ancestors come from Gersdorf am Queis for at least a few generations. I'm DNA related to another family that also comes from somehow from Gerstorf am Queis on Ancestry, but I'm not sure how yet, but it seems to be 2 generations earlier than where I have records for. This Dittmannsdorf has thrown me a loop. Thanks for your help!

Robert Seal_1

You're welcome, @Jared Lee Sommer. Note that the two Gersdorfs appear to be approximately 20 miles apart in the same general area of Schlesien.