Chammunster Fisch 133 Baptisms 5/26 1817-1831 *
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Hello Daniel,
First image:
[Child]: Michael Fenzel.
[Type of birth, midwife]: born alive, Barbara Baier?
[Father]: Georg Fenzel.
[Father's status/occupation and religion]: cottager's son, Catholic.
[Father's residence]: Doefering [Döfering], district Kamm.
[Mother]: Anna Ellmann.
Second image:
[Mother's status/occupation and religion]: cottager's daughter, Catholic.
[Mother's residence]: Münster, district Kamm, no. 3.
[Date and time of birth]: 25 January 1830, at 12 o'clock noon.
[Date and place of baptism]: 26 January [1830] at Münster.
[Officiating priest]: Joseph Ring?, cooperator [= assistant priest].
[Baptismal sponsor/Godfather]: Michael Halter, cottager's son from Loifling.
[Additional baptismal sponsor?/witness?]: Michael Mühlberger, sexton.
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Thank you Robert.
What do they mean: “cottager’s son”, or “cottager’s daughter” ?
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It is Fenzel, not Fenzl?
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You're welcome, Daniel.
In the record you posted, the original German word is "Häusler" which I translated as: cottager.
A cottager is someone with a small house, a garden, and perhaps some land for a few farm animals.
Cottagers were low on the social scale; thus a cottager's son or a cottager's daughter came from humble beginnings.
Here is an article about cottagers from the German Wikipedia. It's written in German so use your browser's translate function to translate it to English: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4usler
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Hello Daniel,
There's clearly an "e" before the "l" in the name "Fenzel" in the record you posted.
Be aware that both "Fenzl" and "Fenzel" would be pronounced the same and the scribe wrote what he heard and spelled it the way he thought it should be spelled. Spelling wasn't standardized until the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Don't be surprised if in other records for this family you find the spelling "Fenzl".
The first rule I learned when I began family research was that "spelling doesn't count" -- meaning don't get hung-up on searching for a specific surname spelling to the exclusion of all others. For example my simple surname "Seal" has been spelled in my ancestors' records as: Seal, Seale, Seales, Seals, Seel, Scill, and even Sill. If I had excluded all the variant spellings of "Seal" I would have missed finding many ancestors.
Hope this helps.
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