Friday, August 22, 2008

Wendelin & Norbert Wunsch Death Register translations


The above images are from the Forbach sterberegister (Death Registry) from the Catholic Church in Forbach, Baden. I received the translation of the German from RF Translations in Wisconsin.

Here is what these images say:

#24
Gravedigger.
Forbach, April 4, 1866
H. Bussmann, pastor

Wendelin Wunsch, citizen and charcoal burner, 65 years, five months, and 13 days old; legitimate son of Johannes Wunsch and Barbara, nee Kleehammer, deceased citizens from here; widower of Katharina Fritz from here, passed away here at five o'clock in the evening on April 3,1866, and was buried with medical permission at 10 o'clock in the forenoon on April 5 by the undersigned pastor. Witnesses were the local citizens Thomas Merkel, coroner, and Matthäus Wunsch, gravedigger.

Forbach, April 5, 1866
H. Bussmann, pastor

Side entrée: April 3. Wendelin Wunsch

#19
Norbert Wunsch passed away here in Forbach at two o'clock in the afternoon, on October 10, 1857, and was buried by the undersigned on the 12th of the same month and year at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. He was 44 years old; the illegitimate son of the unmarried Katharina Fritz from Forbach; husband of Franziska Schoch and citizen, charcoal burner, from Forbach. Witnesses—citizens of Forbach: The day laborer Josef Wunsch, and the merchant Ludwig Fritz.

Forbach, October 12, 1857
(Signature) Huggle, pastor

Side entree: October 10. Norbert Wunsch

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