Hi Alex,
That is a very helpful document!
As you know, Christian was born 01.12.1830 and christened on 01.05.1831.
The rest is simply:
Parents:
Father: Johann Heinrich Faass, born in Buxtehude (close to Hamburg), profession: bookkeeper
Mother: Margarethe Wilhelmina Faass, maiden name: Menck, born in Altona (Hamburg)
Married 09.10.1825 in Hamburg
Godparents: Henriette Rosine Zieger, Caroline Amalia Menck, Wilhelm Stemwede
The stuff at the bottom is to say that it is a certified copy of the record.
Best regards,
Karen
P.S. I was just googling the names. There is so little to be found, but I discovered this Dutch website:
https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-lokhorst/I3960.phpUntil I saw this, I would have said that there were probably not many Johann Heinrich Faass' from Hamburg around that time. Let's hope that the name was more common than I thought, otherwise we might have uncovered some iffy goings-on..!
The link refers to a Johann H(e)inrich Christian Faass, born in Hamburg on 02.04.1793.
He died in Nijmegen/NL on 12.03.1858.
He married twice (both times in Nijmegen) and had (at least) 5 children. One boy died aged 12 days, one girl died as a small tot and they gave the next daughter exactly the same names (if the record is correct).
It
might be worth contacting Arwo Lokhorst, whose tree it is, to see if there are any overlaps or connections, just in case...
And because it's so interesting
I've been googling further and have discovered that Faass is often mistranscribed as Faahs or even Faash. See here:
http://www.online-ofb.de/famreport.php?ofb=buxtehude&ID=I17513&nachname=Faahs&lang=deMight be worth bearing mind. (Don't know if these are relatives!) Or whether it is indeed Christian's father (the three children were born 1813 - 1817, i.e. before the date of the marriage shown in Christian's christening cert.).