Register pages: the cover label, the pastor's preface (Vorbericht) of 31 October 1753 and the note on the missing marriage pages, Dielmissen

Transcription (original language)

[Cover label:] Kirchenbuch Dielmissen. Getaufte 1743–1782. Getraute 1748–1787. Begrabene 1743–1788. [Confirmirte 1744–1794, read at lower zoom.]

[Vorbericht:] Vorbericht. Als ich Domin: XIV p. Trin: 1743 als Pastor hieselbst und zu [Hunzen?] introduciret worden, zeigte mir [or: wurde mir] ein, von meinem sel. Antecessore ao 1711 angefangenes, in 8vo ungebundenes Kirchen-Buch, weil kein ältere vorhanden, darin die seit der Zeit copulirte, gebohrne und verstorbene aufgezeichnet waren, überliefert, welches ich dann auch nachhero fortsetzte. Es gieng aber den 25ten Jan: 1749 ein Hochfürstl. Consistorial-Rescript, darin nachgefraget wurde, ob solche Bücher an allen Orten richtig und in gutem Stande befunden würden. Weil nun darauf die schlechte Beschaffenheit des hiesigen Kirchen-Buchs [ich] [unterthänig?] berichtete, so erhielt [ich] 1750 von Fürstl. Consistorio speciellen Befehl, ein neues und verdauerliches Kirchen-Buch einbinden zu lassen, dazu die nöthigen Kosten aus den Mitteln der Kirchen zugleich verwilligt wurden. Ich habe daher dieses Buch für die Dielmissische Kirche verfertigen lassen, und die [bisher?] in das vorgezeigte [niedergeschriebene?] Kirchen-Buch mit eingeschriebene von mir copulirte, gebohrne und verstorbene von der Zeit meiner Introduction an, [hinein?] [unter?] [Wiedar?] angeschrieben, und den Catalogum der confirmirten hinzugethan; dabey ich denen, so lange mir Gott [mein] Leben fristet, [alles?] fortsetzen werde. Geschrieben Dielmissen, den 31ten October 1753. Ernst Conrad Gutke, Pastor.

[Note on the leaf after the Vorbericht, modern hand:] Seiten 1–4 fehlen. M. 14.III.34

[Value 7, right page:] Copulati 1748. 1749. [printed p. 5; first entry 26 March 1748]

Translation (English)

[Cover label:] Church book of Dielmissen. Baptized 1743–1782. Married 1748–1787. Buried 1743–1788. [Confirmed 1744–1794.]

[Vorbericht, sense:] When I was introduced as pastor here [and at Hunzen?] on the 14th Sunday after Trinity 1743 (15 September 1743), I was handed an unbound octavo church book begun by my late predecessor in 1711, since no older one existed, in which the marriages, births and deaths since then were recorded, and I continued it. On 25 January 1749 a ducal consistory rescript asked whether such books were everywhere in good order. I reported the poor state of this one, and in 1750 I received the consistory's special order to have a new, durable church book bound, the cost to be paid from church funds. I therefore had this book made for the Dielmissen church, entered in it the marriages, births and deaths I had performed since my introduction, and added the catalogue of the confirmed; I will continue it as long as God grants me life. Written at Dielmissen, 31 October 1753. Ernst Conrad Gutke, pastor.

[Note:] Pages 1 to 4 are missing. M., 14 March 1934.

Notes

The label corrects the earlier reading of Bild 3 [now cited as Bild 4, viewer value 3] in F307 and the block Register_Page_Dielmissen_Title_Pages_1743_Archion_390592_Bild_1-4 (marriages from 1748, not 1743; burials to 1788, not 1799). A first Dielmissen register was begun in 1711 (STATED); it is not in the 1976 film list or on Archion. The entries of 1743 to about 1750 in this volume are the pastor's fair copy (PROBABLE). The four missing pages were probably the first marriage pages (the first marriage page is printed p. 5), so the marriages of autumn 1743 to March 1748 are not online (PROBABLE). The pastor's surname reads Gutke in the signature, Guthe[n] on the title page: one man (the signature the better source). Anne Catharina Voigts's baptism (about 1740–1742) and her parents' marriage lie before 1743, in the 1711 book if recorded at Dielmissen. Grade: STATED (the words read; wording approximate).