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Baptism — Elisabeth Legat, daughter of the master tailor Johann Legat and Anna Katharina née Wunderlich of Kirchenlamitz, Marktleuthen, 5/11 March 1821 (UNVERIFIED)

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Transcription (German, as read)

"ehelich geboren dahier" on the fifth (5.) of March 1821 at 3 a.m., baptized on the eleventh (11.) in the church. "Vater: Johann Legat, Bürger und Schneidermeister dahier. Mutter: Anna Katharina Legat, war geborene Wunderlichin von Kirchenlamitz. Taufzeugin: Elisabeth Ott [Eck? "Eck" or "Ott"], die Ehefrau des Johann [Ott?], Bürger und [Schuhmacher? / Schlosser?]-meister dahier." [The child's name Elisabeth as recorded in the findings; the sponsor's surname and her husband's trade doubtful.]

English translation

[Elisabeth], born in wedlock here on 5 March 1821 at 3 a.m., baptized on the 11th in the church. Father: Johann Legat, citizen and master tailor here. Mother: Anna Katharina Legat, born Wunderlich, of Kirchenlamitz. Godmother: Elisabeth Ott [or Eck], wife of Johann [Ott?], citizen and master [shoemaker? locksmith?] here.

The mother's forenames "Anna Katharina" against "Katharina Dorothea" (1803, 1804) and "Catharina Dorothea" (1815): one woman PROBABLE; a second Wunderlich wife POSSIBLE. Elisabeth would be a late child, 17 years after Barbara (POSSIBLE). No Knoll in the father and mother lines of Bild 155–163 (godparent lines not all read). Image to save: Bild 160, right page, no. 10.