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Burial — Johann Heinrich Wirth, 70, citizen and vintner, Oberstenfeld, 6 February 1765

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Transcription (German, as read)

Margin "d. 6. Febr.": "Wurde Joh. Heinrich Wirth, Bürger u. Weing[ärtner], welcher in 70 Jahr an Schlag verstorben, und Georg Friedrich Gottfried Paacks [reading uncertain] … Ziegler auf dem Lichtenberg, 30-jähriges Kind begraben."

English translation

Johann Heinrich Wirth, citizen and vintner of Oberstenfeld, who died of a stroke aged 70, was buried on 6 February 1765, with the 30-year-old child of a tile-maker on the Lichtenberg.

Notes. No wife or children named. Grade: STATED;