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Baptism — Maria Friederike Carolina (Fredericka) Bauer, Vaihingen an der Enz, 26 May 1844
Transcript and translation
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The record
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Transcription (German, as read)
Child: "Maria Friederike Carolina" (first-name column "Maria Friederike / Caroline").
Parents: "Jacob Friedrich Bauer, B. und [Bürstenbinder]" [trade doubtful in this hand; matches the Familienregister reading]; "Christine Magdalena, geb. Rau".
Place of birth: "Vaihingen".
Born: "den 23. Mai, Nachts 12½ Uhr".
Baptized: "Vaihingen den 26. Mai, Mittags 12½ Uhr". Baptizing clergy: "Diac. Rüst" [doubtful; the working files read "Kopf(?)"].
Godparents (Taufzeugen): "[Christina] Rieger, ledig, [Tochter des ...]; Maria Müller, [...] Ehefrau in Stuttgart; Caroline [Scheuer?], ledig" [names doubtful].
Familienregister column: "I. 108 b." (same reference as the 1843 marriage entry, which supports reading it as volume I, page 108 b).
English translation
Maria Friederike Carolina, daughter of citizen Jacob Friedrich Bauer, [brush maker], and Christine Magdalena, born Rau, born at Vaihingen on 23 May 1844 at 12:30 at night, baptized at Vaihingen on 26 May at 12:30 at noon by the deacon; three female godparents, one in Stuttgart.
Notes
Read on Archion; the prior research has the same entry from Ancestry (transcript Baptism_Record_Maria_Friederike_Karolina_Bauer_Enzweihingen_1844, whose file name carries the index's Enzweihingen). Godparents doubtful.