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Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« on: Thursday 04 October 18 09:22 BST (UK) »
I would be very grateful if someone could translate / decipher the attached extracts from two German birth certificates from the early 1900s. I can understand most of the German but am stuck with the first name of Lina Hofmann and the first two names of her brother Karl. Similarly I know both birth addresses are in Nied (in Frankfurt, Hessen) but I cannot work out the actual road names. One is at number 8 and the other at number 5 but they are in different streets.

Any assistance or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
Thank you in anticipation.
Cherryl
Dublin:  O'Leary, Greer, Webb, Hood
Seavington, Somerset: Brake, Gibbs, Bargery, Lockyer, England, Phelps, Bishop
Lopen, Somerset: Mitchell
Glamorgan: Mitchell, Thomas
Monmouthshire: Watkins, Hood, Whitcombe
Pembrokeshire: Griffiths
Cardiganshire: Evans, Jones

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Re: Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 04 October 18 09:35 BST (UK) »
Frieda Helene Hofmann
Friedrichstraße 8

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Re: Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 04 October 18 09:37 BST (UK) »
I can´t see any Lina or Karl in the document you posted

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Re: Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 04 October 18 16:13 BST (UK) »
I can´t see any Lina or Karl in the document you posted
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Dave

I should have read your post first.   :)  I just spent 5 minutes trying to find Lina..!  ;D

Quick question, Dave: I know you're better at this than me and I realise this isn't the actual issue here, but I can't see "Helene" in the mother's name. The  first letter is very different from the "H" in Hofmann...  ???

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Re: Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 04 October 18 17:32 BST (UK) »
Hi Karen
yes, that has also confused me a couple of times in the past.

In old documents they quite often wrote names and places in the roman alphabet (lateinischer
Schrift) everything else in Sutterlin or Kurrent. Sometimes they just mixed up the three ad. lib.
Hence the differences with the h.

Here´s her marriage cert. Frieda Helene

https://search.ancestry.de/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=61118&h=92696170&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=PWC5&_phstart=successSource

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Re: Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 04 October 18 20:42 BST (UK) »
My wife says that they both had the Catholic Religion.
Johann Wilhelm Hofmann was a factory worker
Pow in Bath Somerset, Essex, Middlesex, Lancashire, Surrey, Australia, New Zealand and USA
Bailey, Hare, in Bath & Taunton Somerset
Nash in Seend Wiltshire, Bath Somerset
Snook in Middlesex, Leicestershire, Surrey, Berkshire, Portugal and Canada
Billinghurst, Furlonger, Hoare, Huntingford, Tilbury, Webb in Surrey

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Re: Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 04 October 18 21:27 BST (UK) »
Hi Karen
yes, that has also confused me a couple of times in the past.
In old documents they quite often wrote names and places in the roman alphabet (lateinischer
Schrift) everything else in Sutterlin or Kurrent. Sometimes they just mixed up the three ad. lib.
Hence the differences with the h.
Regards
Dave

Thanks, Dave!
I wouldn't have known that was an "H"!

Let's hope Cherryl uploads the relevant bits of the certificates. Then maybe we can answer her questions..!  (OK, so I'm nosey...) :)

Regards,
Karen
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Re: Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 04 October 18 23:58 BST (UK) »
Thanks Dave, Karen and Muffin for the prompt response. I thought all four pictures had loaded :(

Hopefully the other three are now attached. Frieda Helene Blankstein is definitely correct. Also are you sure they were Catholic, as I didn't know that?

As always, thanks RootsChatters for sharing your knowledge. I look forward to hearing more from you soon.

By the way, I live in Australia so hence the possibly odd times when I am logged on.

All the best
Cherryl
Dublin:  O'Leary, Greer, Webb, Hood
Seavington, Somerset: Brake, Gibbs, Bargery, Lockyer, England, Phelps, Bishop
Lopen, Somerset: Mitchell
Glamorgan: Mitchell, Thomas
Monmouthshire: Watkins, Hood, Whitcombe
Pembrokeshire: Griffiths
Cardiganshire: Evans, Jones

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Re: Deciphering Names and Addresses on German Birth Certificates
« Reply #8 on: Friday 05 October 18 07:47 BST (UK) »
Also are you sure they were Catholic, as I didn't know that?

Hi Cherryl

in your first post the religion is stated as being "Deutsch Katholisch" German Catholic.
Not to be confused with Catholic Church in Germany.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Catholics_(sect)

Dave