We would like some help with researching and translating a record.
We have been researching to try to extend the line for my husband’s great-grandfather, Frederick Janssen. The only source of information we have on his father and mother comes from information written at the time of Frederick’s marriage in 1884. Frederick records that he was born in Osel, Hannover, Gy and his parents were Dietrich Anton Janssen and Maria Dietrichs. He records that he is 43 years old at the time which would put his birthday in about 1841. (The Marriage Certificate is pictured in memories for Friedrich Bertram Janssen KC6F-YBB)
An acquaintance in Germany has looked at the church records in Asel, Hannover, Germany and found an entry for a birth in 1841 for a Bertram Frederick Janssen with Hauke Maria as his mother. This record and the translation are pictured in memories for Friedrich Bertram Janssen KC6F-YBB under the heading "possible birth record." Is the translation correct and do you think that this record is the correct birth record for Frederick Janssen?
There is also another Asel, Hildesheim, Germany near Hannover that we can find. The records for Asel, Hildesheim are on microfilm or must be accessed at a Family History Library which we cannot access at this time.
Do you have any other ideas that would help us find his father and mother?
Thank you very much for your help!
Marjorie Janssen
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The translation of the birth record your acquaintance found is good; I've made just a couple of changes, such as spelling the name Bartram with an "a" like in the record:
On 21 July [1841] at 7 a.m., Hauka Maria, daughter of the local master shoemaker Bartram Janssen, gave birth to a boy conceived out of marriage, who was baptized in this parish on 5 September and named Bartram Friedrich.
Witnesses: 1. Bartram Janssen, 2. Gerd Wielms, son of Bartram Janssen, and 3. Trientke Margrethe, wife of Reiner Schonbohm, laborer in Asel.
Although it's possible that the birth record is for your Frederick, I don't think it is because the surname of the mother doesn't match. I looked a few years ahead for a marriage record of Hauka Maria in the same parish to see who she married, but there was none.
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