Can you help me translate this? Is the name Marganu translatable to Maria in German?

SharonWolfsClark

I have been researching old German language records from a village which is now in the Czech Republic. My research took me to another town less than 10 miles away, and everything has changed! Now I am in the Czech language and I am struggling. The image below is a birth record. My person is the fourth entry in the picture.

My German records show that my ancestor married Anna Maria Slavik who's father was Antonius Slavik from Longo Pirnitz (now Dlouha Brtnice). The death record shows that Maria died in 1798 and was 82 years old.

The only Antonius Slavik I found in this time period for either town, is the one in the image below. He has three other children in the same time period.

Doing the math from her death record I found that if the scribe was correct, my Maria was born in 1716. This birth record shows a child named Marganu. Could this be my Maria?

I think it says that the godparents both come from Odtud. I don't know if that is a translatable word, or if it is the name of a village.

Here is my translation so far:

Column 1. Date: 11 February 1716

Column 2. Baptized by: Father Casparus Jureczka

Column 3. Infant: Marganu

Column 4. Place: Dlauha Brtnice

Column 5. Parents: Antonin Slavik and Katerzina his wife

Column 6. Bartholomicz Steffl and Marye Novak both from odtud

Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated.

AnnaB 2000

I have answered your question on the Austro-Hungarian group. Margana (Marganu is a different grammatical form) does not seem to translate as Maria. Marye (godmother) is Maria.

Cindy Jarvis

@SharonWolfsClark great post!

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Enjoy today ! Cindy Jarvis

SharonWolfsClark

Thank you for helping. If I don't figure this out, I can not go back further in this family line.

If anyone asks your opinion, this new platform makes 'ask a question' is much harder to find than the old system where 'ask a question' was right on top and clearly identified.

Cindy Jarvis

@SharonWolfsClark we are hoping the engineers will soon make ask a question easier to find.

Sometimes we have to be patient as we wait for the patron with the needed skill set to come along.

I recently broke through a brick wall/dead end - that I had been researching for years... just keep checking back and asking questions.

Enjoy today! Cindy