Czech Records: Rosa Francisca Spohr

I’ll start with the children of Karl Spohr and Ludmilla Breinl, my 3rd great grandparents. Before my parents went to the Czech Republic, we knew about their son, Ludwig (my 2nd great grandpa), and their daughter, Amalie Spohr Schaefer. But my parents also found the records for two other daughters (both who died as babies): Rosa Francisca and Ludmila (that’s right – the mother’s name is spelled ‘Ludmilla’ and the daughter’s name is spelled ‘Ludmila’). And it was also very interesting to find that Amalie Spohr Schaefer’s name was actually Mathilda Amalia Spohr – so apparently she went by her middle name.

Here is the record for Karl and Ludmilla’s eldest child, Rosa Francisca Spohr:

(In many of these records the recorder went back in later and recorded the death date of the child – this has been done in the column under the child’s name, when they write the little symbol that looks kind of like a little cross). You can see that Rosa Francisca died on 16 December 1865, when she was only 13 days old.

Rosa Francisca Spohr
Czech Birth Records Book, St. Niklas Church in Eger, page 196
Photographs IMG_0709 through IMG_0716
Photographs of birth records taken by Steven and Amy Chidester in the Czech Republic in February 2008 (copies of photographs in the possession of Stephanie Chidester Bradshaw). Translated on 20 May 2008 by Sister Frieda Kindt who offered a weekly German translation service at the family history center in the Milwaukee first ward building of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Transcribed by Stephanie Bradshaw.

"Born 3 December 1865 at 4:00 in the afternoon, Baptized 5 December 1865, [name of pastor], House Number: 193, name of child: Rosa Francisca, Catholic, Female, Legitimate,
Father: Karl Spohr an officer of the local church, born in the village of Salosel in the district of Aussig in county Leitwenitz?, the son of Franz Spohr, cantor [choir director and schoolmaster] in Graslitz, and Johanna born Panowitz of Rasitz Number 48.
Mother: Ludmilla Breinl daughter of Friedrich Breinl, master beer brewer in Graslitz Number 391 in Eger county, and Amalia born Dotzauer of Graslitz Number 522.
Witnesses: Franziska Frötschner citizen of ____? In Eger
Midwife: Antonia Suhrau in Eger"