Help to give child a name
This record for a child of Adolph Neuhard does not have a name recorded. The childs death record was translated for me and it said "1685 - 30 July the little son of Master Adolph Ernst Neuhardt, court carpenter, was buried here, died on the 28th, his age was 19 weeks." I am asking for assistance to look at this record and determine a possible name he would have been given-based on godparents names or traditional order of names in german custom. The child lived 19 weeks-a name would certainly have been given him. Thanks for helping . (bottom right corner)
Miglior Risposta
-
Here's the translation
Date - 22 March [no child's name]
Parents - M. Adolph Neuhardt and his wife
Godparents - Johann Georg Gieß, Maria Magdalena [Drachin?] the [??'s] chambermaid, Margaretha [wife?] of Johannes [Hohn?]
0
Risposte
-
@TrishAndersen Impossible to say; there is no one custom of naming children. A godparent may be the namesake, so may a parent or a grandparent or the saint of the day. They may also have given the child the name of a newly baptised child of the local lord.
0 -
I appreciate your thoughts. It is so baffling that the childs name wasn't written down on either record. Would you mind translating the record? I forgot to ask for it.
0