Burial — Heinrich Legat, citizen and resident of Marktleuthen, died 23 March 1811, aged 68

The record

Transcription (German, as read)

Index (Bild 4): "Knoll: Dav[id] 297; [Max.] Gottl. 150"; "Legat: [Heinr.] 44. / [..] Cath.[?] 33" (no Legat line besides these; the forenames are an abbreviated fast hand, the first fits "Heinr.").

p\. 44, 1811 no. 9: "Heinrich Legat, Bürger und Einwohner allhier, starb an [Fuß]brustkrankheit und [Husten?] den dreyund zwanzigsten März früh um halb vier Uhr, u. wurde den fünf und zwanzigsten einsd. mit einer Vermahnung beerdigt; Alt: 68 Jahr, 8 Monathe, 2 Wochen, 6 Tage, 7 Stunden. Leg: 24 Kr." Margin: "(3te Serm:)".

English translation

Heinrich Legat, citizen and resident here, died of a chest ailment [and cough?] on 23 March [1811] at half past three in the morning and was buried on the 25th with an admonition; aged 68 years, 8 months, 2 weeks, 6 days, 7 hours. Fee 24 kreuzer.

Notes

The age gives a birth about mid-July 1742 (computed). No wife or children named. The index has no line for Johann Legat or Katharina Dorothea Legat (index negative, one construction) and none for Christian David Knoll under that name. Grade: PROVEN for the burial as written;

Conventions: [ ] editorial addition or expansion; [?] uncertain reading; […] or [...] illegible or outside the crop; [sic] as written. Readings marked draft are from screen-resolution images. Chapters 4–12 research, Wesemann family history.