Question about the father in this baptism.
Frantz Caspar is the father and Margaretha is the mother. Oswaldus is the child being baptized on 5 August 1568. There is a cross below the father and above the mother. Does the cross mean the father is deceased at the time of the baptism? Oswaldus is the last child I can find for this couple. Also, the wife remarries about 15 years later as the widow of Frantz Caspar.
This is on Film#102066678, image #536, entry #710 .
Also, there is information between the father and mother's name. I have seen this type of information before and wondered what it is referring to. I am talking about the "Sup 51" and "Inf' 0". I may not have translated those letters correctly.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Thank you Gina that is very helpful. And thank you for the link to learn more.
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You might be interested in one of the resources linked in the resource bar at the top of the group page (you do have to scroll to the right a bit): a link to a book of Latin abbreviations: https://archive.org/details/CappelliDizionarioDiAbbreviature/page/n275/mode/2up
Sup - above (referring to the person listed above)
inf - below (referring to the person listed below)
It looks like the numbers are reference numbers, perhaps to the respective baptism entries for the individual. So,#51 would be the number of Franz' baptism entry.
In looking through other entries in the book with the cross symbol (e.g. image 543), I'm wondering if it means that the person died locally, i.e, to reference the person's death record for more information. The cross seems to accompany a #0.
My interpretation: "inf: 0" means there is no local baptism entry for the person below (in this case, Margaretha). I would interpret that to mean she was not born locally, but came from a different town of origin. The accompanying cross symbol could indicate that she did die locally.
This is just my personal interpretation from looking at the records.
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