Item Info

Scripts/Text: Fraktur
Language: German
Weiser Number: 1012
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

[left column]
Ruben Kriebel \ ist geboren den 11 \ ten September im Jahr Unsers Her\ rn und Heilandes \ Jesu Christi 1820

[right column]
Maria Kriebel \ ist geboren den 16 \ ten December im \ Jahr unsers Herrn \ und Heilandes \ Jesu Christi 1826

Haben sich mit einander verlobt und versprochen \ und sind in den Heiligen Ehe Stand getreten \ den 30ten November im Jahr nach der Ge \ burt Christi 1845.

[on the right]
Hosea ist geboren den 12ten September \ im Jahr 1849 \ Aaron ist geboren den 16tn \ July 1852.

Translation:

[left column]
Ruben Kriebel was born the 11th September in the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1820.

[right column]
Maria Kriebel was born the 16th December in the year of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ 1826.

Have become engaged and promised to each other, and entered into the state of holy matrimony the 30th November in the year after the birth of Jesus 1845.

[on the right]
Hosea was born the 12th September in the year 1849.
Aaron was born the 16th July 1852.

Category: Family Record (Familienregister)
Media Type: Manuscripts
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Hand-drawn; hand-colored; hand-lettered. The text begins with the heading in large Fraktur letters bearing the names of the couple for whom the register was made. The birth information for Ruben and Maria Kriebel forms two columns, below which is a section recording their marriage. On the right side of the document are the birth records of their sons Hosea and Aaron Kriebel.

See also FLP 107b, a religious text inscribed Maria Kriebel 1843.

Associated Names: Kriebel, Ruben
Provenance: Levi E. Yoder

Bibliography:

“Maria and Rosina Kriebel” in Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), 2nd ed., vol. 1, p. 474.

Dennis K. Moyer, Fraktur Writings and Folk Art Drawings of the Schwenkfelder Library Collection (Kutztown, Pa.: Pennsylvania German Society, 1997).

Creation Place County: Creation Place Note:Based on design characteristics and family name
Region/County:[Montgomery]
State/Province:[Pennsylvania]

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): ca. 1855
Image Dimensions Width: 34 cm
ShelfMark: FLP 108