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Anna Elisabeth Fiegenbaum

Birth & Baptism - 1864

 
record of Anna Elisabeth Fiegenbaum's birth and baptism
Warren County, Missouri; 1864
Courtesy of Jane (Fiegenbaum) Paget
 

This is a portion of a family register which appears to have been kept by Hermann Heinrich and Wilhelmine Florentine Charlotte (Wehrmann) Fiegenbaum in which they recorded the names and the dates of the births, baptisms, and sometimes the deaths, of their 12 children.

The transcription of this entry is:

Unser Tochter Anna Elisabeth geboren den 13. August
Morgans um 1 uhr und getauft den 7 September Im Jahr 1864.

The translation is:

Our daughter Anna Elisabeth born on the 13th of August
at 1 o'clock in the morning and baptized on the 7th of September in the year 1864.

Anna Elisabeth's birth and baptism were also recorded in the archives of the Evangelische Kirche am Charette (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ) at Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA.

In the church's baptismal register, the date of birth is given as 12 August. Her sponsor was Anne Elisebethe Aufderhar [sic].

Upon her death at the age of six in 1871, the church's burial record gives her date of birth as 13 August, which is the date carved on her gravestone in the cemetery of Immanuels United Church of Christ.

The discrepancy between the two dates reported for Anna Elisabeth's birth may perhaps be explained by the fact that the birth seems to have taken place in the very early morning hours.

 

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