Translation of marriage record

Linda Johnson_18

Google translate isn't helping me much with this one. At least the handwriting shouldn't be a problem, it is the meaning. Thank you.

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JohnsonGreg

Hi Linda,

Google translate is sometimes a useful tool but often produces giberish because, as in many languages, many proper names in German can also be ordinary words. And many German words are composed of several words put together. And many older words we come across in geneology aren't currently used or are used differently.

I recommend you get a copy of Ernest Thode's German English Genealogical Dictionary. I knew no German when I started researching my mothers very German ancestry and still really don't. My German grammar skills are abysmal. And yet I'm slowly catching on to reading these old records. I will attempt to translate your record and hopefully others will correct my errors.

Neuangehender - neu= new, angehend = beginning

stiftamtlich- stift=religious institution, amtlich=official

schutzverwandter = noncitizen protected person with citizen’s rights

und SchneiderMeister = Master tailor

so Johann Leonard is a master tailor and new/beginning church official who is a noncitizen but has some rights/protections

I'm not sure why it says "auf der Haynmuhl" which translates "on the Haynmuhl" rather than "in (or of) Haynmuhl" but this must be the village where he resides.

Then, because of the order used in german sentence structure, it starts talking about his father

Weyl. = Weyland = deceased

Closter Verwalteramt Sulzischen unterthanen

Closter and Sulzisch are place names; the "en" ending is a possessive ending; verwalteramt = stewardship; unterthanen = subject of/serf of. So I think this means he is a subject under the rule of the area that is now probably Kloster Sulz

und Koblers in Binzenweiler - so father was a cooper in Binzenweiler

nachgelassener ehlich erzeugter lediger Sohn - surviving legitimate (conceived in marriage) single son (this refers back to Johann Leonard)

The only new words in the wife's information (other than Place names) are Tochter (daughter) and the abbreviation Freyherrl. Thodes show a word "Freiherrlich" meaning "of the baron" (i and y are sometimes interchanged). So Anna Margaretha is the legitimate single daughter of the deceased Johann Michael Burkhards of Bergbronn who was a subject of the baron (of?) Berlingeschen

So that's my understanding of the record based upon my admittedly limited skills. Hopefully others will correct my errors.

Robert Seal_1

Well done, Greg @JohnsonGreg!

Linda Johnson_18

I am impressed with how you did this when you say you downplay your expertise.

Thank you so much, both of you!

Robert Seal_1

Hello Linda,

All the credit goes solely to GREG @JohnsonGreg.