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| Birth and Baptism of Florentina Mathilde Braun (1814-1891) |
Today's Surname Saturday post is about one of those good news/bad news genealogy days. Good: there's a baptismal record for my great-great grandmother and she has a twin sister; bad: the village pastor had handwriting that strongly resembles a chicken on acid who ran through an inkwell before it made a break for freedom running across the pages of the parish register.
Here's what I learned about Frederica Ida & Florentina Mathilde BRAUN:
[Entry No.] 280. 29 December [1814]
Twin 1 Friederica Ida
Born on the 7th of the same [month]
[Entry No.] 281. Ditto
Twin 2
Florentina Mathilde
Born on the 7th of the same [month]
Father: [Carl] Heinrich BRAUN, merchant
Mother: Joh[anna] Juliana née TRENKLER
Twin 1 Friederica Ida
Born on the 7th of the same [month]
[Entry No.] 281. Ditto
Twin 2
Florentina Mathilde
Born on the 7th of the same [month]
Father: [Carl] Heinrich BRAUN, merchant
Mother: Joh[anna] Juliana née TRENKLER
The Trenklers lived in Rawitsch for many generations and are relatively easy to find, the Brauns less so, and the Kirschsteins are practically non-existent. I'm starting to think Florentina's husband, Friedrich Kirschstein, was born somewhere other than Rawitsch.
If it were easy, it wouldn't be fun, right?
You wrote: "...handwriting that strongly resembles a chicken on acid who ran through an inkwell before it made a break for freedom running across the pages of the parish register."
ReplyDeleteThat has to be the best description of crummy handwriting I have ever read, took me 5 minutes to pick myself off the floor from the hysterical laughter fit!
Thanks, Carol. I had to laugh to keep from crying. I needed at least one other baptism from that reel of microfilm and the handwriting's so bad I doubt I'll find it.
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