1882 Marriage register – Charles Knoll and Karolina (Carolina) Weisz, St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church, Philadelphia (24 Oct 1882)

The record

Transcription of: 1882_Marriage_Record_Charles_Knoll_Caroline_Weiss.pdf

Document: Photocopy (scanned sideways) of a two-page spread of a handwritten German-language church marriage register headed '1882. Copulationen 1882.', entries nos. 87–112 for August–December 1882, with a typed caption 'Marriage Record / St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church'. Very degraded black-and-white copy.

Conventions: original spelling kept; [?] = uncertain reading; [illegible] = unreadable; bracketed italic text describes images or marks the transcriber's notes.

Transcription

Transcriber note: the page image is rotated 90°; read with the caption at the bottom.

1882. Copulationen 1882.

Charles Knoll alt 25 J. Butcher [?] geboren u. wohnhaft in Philadelphia, Pa. und Frl. Karolina [or Carolina] Weisz, 25 J. alt geboren in Ochsenburg, Oberamt Brackenheim, Württemberg. Zeugen: August u. Frau [?] Christiana [?] Reichert Christian [?] Weisz

Other entries on this page not transcribed (register entries 87–93 and 95–112 for other couples; none shows a family-of-interest surname as far as legible).

<table> <colgroup> <col style="width: 23%" /> <col style="width: 76%" /> </colgroup> <tbody> <tr class="odd"> <td><strong>[Typed caption below the register]</strong></td> <td>Marriage Record<br /> St. Michael's and Zion Lutheran Church</td> </tr> </tbody> </table>

English Translation

1882. Marriages 1882.

No. 94, 24 October 1882. Charles Knoll, aged 25 years, butcher [?], born and residing in Philadelphia, Pa., and Miss Karolina [or Carolina] Weisz, aged 25 years, born in Ochsenburg, district (Oberamt) of Brackenheim, Württemberg. Witnesses: August and his wife [?] Christiana [?] Reichert; Christian [?] Weisz.

Transcriber's Notes

The copy is a high-contrast, broken-up image of German script; many letters are reconstructed from word shape. Clear or fairly clear: entry no. 94, 'Oct. 24.', 'Charles Knoll', 'alt 25 J.', 'Philadelphia, Pa.', 'Weisz', 'Ochsenburg', 'Brackenheim', 'Württemberg', 'Reichert'.

Groom's occupation (after '25 J.') is uncertain; the word begins with B and resembles 'Butcher' (Latin script).

'Oberamt' is written abbreviated/cramped ('Oberamt' or 'Oberamts'); read as 'Oberamt'.

Only entry no. 94 transcribed (family-entries-only approach applied to this multi-entry register page).

The 1882 register entry (no. 94) appears in four documents in this folder (the marriage record, both 2016 research-note sets, and the compiled booklet). All four transcriptions use one reconciled reading, checked against the sharpest copy.