Travel Log: October 7th, Part 1, Carlsbad, Fischern, & Putschirn again

“. . . So we just arrived in our hotel in Litomerice because we have an appointment in the State Litomerice Archives tomorrow. Hopefully the census records are held there at that archive, and we will see what else we can find there too.

Today we packed up, had breakfast, and then walked over to the hot springs to get a Karlovy Vary cup for Jennifer because she asked Mom to get her one (that's what everyone does there, I guess, they get a special cup and sip the hot spring water - yes, I tried a tiny taste, and yes, it was hot and gross). But the cool thing is we have two photos of ancestors (their names are unknown to us so far) that were taken at a photo studio that used to be right there at those famous hot springs in Karlovy Vary.

Then we left the hotel and headed to the local archive in Karlovy Vary-Rybare, because before we left town Mom had emailed one of the State Archives asking them where to find census records for our ancestral towns around Karlovy Vary, and they wrote her back and told her to go there. We were excited to look at the censuses to hopefully fill in some gaps and figure out who went with who. But they don't have census records there. They told us the censuses for the towns in the Karlovy Vary region are in the State Archives in Pilsen, which was not close to where we were so we couldn't go there. They did tell us that they had something for the town of Imligau (Jimlikov) that was translated as Chronicles or Annuals for the town (possibly including school or church information?) from 1924-1942. But they showed us that that book was also online at www.portafontium.eu, and so we decided to look at it later -- it's got much later dates, but we could at least check it for our surnames to look for any descendants who stayed here, or see if they have Annuals for any of the other towns online. 

Oh, but we did find the old church in Fischern quite by accident -- when we parked to go into the archive, the church was right there. That would have been where our Strunz family went to church while they lived in Fischern.

Catholic church in Fischern

I loved the decorative work over this arched doorway.

Then we went to those other towns and photographed the remaining ancestral houses that I had found on Google Maps the other day. We went first to Putschirn and found houses 25, 17, & 7.

House No. 25 was my favorite of the day. Putschirn No. 25 is the house where my 3^rd great grandparents, Maria Anna Strunz and Joseph Ott, were married.  We never would have found it without Google Maps: Besides the fact that it didn't have a house number on it at all, it wasn't even on a road -- it was in the same yard as another newer house, and the old house No. 25 was back away from the road, beyond a little green house in the yard. There were red vines growing over it and the door was missing, with an open door frame. No one lived there, but the new house on the lot was inhabited. And there was a big Rottweiler in the yard that was only separated from us by a flimsy looking fence, so when it jumped at the fence and snarled at us that made us rather nervous.  I told mom to just keep walking and not to look it in the eyes, and we got back to the car alright after taking our pictures.

Putschirn No. 25

No. 25 beyond the little greenhouse in the yard.

No. 25 from the back.

Then we found Putschirn No. 17, which had been rebuilt and was a light green house.  No. 17 is where my 4^th great grandparents, Anton Strunz & Katharina Möckl, lived at the time of the birth of their son, Joseph Strunz, who died as a baby.

Putschirn No. 17

Then No. 7, which was a tan house on the Main Street with an original looking roof.  Putschirn No. 7 is the house that Anton Strunz & Katharina Möckl had moved into by the time of the birth of their youngest son, Joseph Strunz (who was given the same name as his older brother who died as a baby). . . .”

Putschirn No. 7

Travel Log: October 5th, Part 1, Fischern, Putschirn, Imligau, Chodau, & Wintersgrun

“. . . Today we went on the tour with Dr. Stanislav Boracovic, and it went well.  It was really good that I had previously printed out the list of house numbers for our Czech ancestors (at least the ones I have typed into our genealogy file so far), because we looked for lots of houses and we did find some.

The first stop was Fischern, now Rybáře, which used to be a separate town but now it has merged with Karlsbad because they are so close.

The main street of Fischern (now Rybáře)

I mentioned that we have letters from Josef Strunz in Fischern No. 30, but looking at our list two sisters of my great, great grandmother Anna Strunz Ott who came to America were born while the family was living in two different houses in Fischern. We were lucky and found all three of those house locations in Fischern: house no. 9 was a cool old house just off the main street where Theresia Strunz was born.  It looks like it had apartments in it now, and we were able to step inside the front door and see the little architectural details on the walls.

Fischern No. 9

Then on the Main Street we found houses 28 & 30 right next to each other, which are now large apartment buildings that were rebuilt to replace the original buildings there that had been bombed in the war.  (Fischern No. 28 was were Anna Rosina Strunz was born, and No. 30 was the address that Joseph Strunz sent family letters from).

Fischern No. 28 & No. 30

Then we went down the street to the next nearby town of Putschirn, now Počerny, and looked for houses 5, 7, 15, 17, or 25, but didn't find them. 

Here’s what we know so far about the ancestors who lived in these homes:

Putschirn No. 5 was the home of Anton Strunz.  Anton Strunz & his wife, Katharina Möckl lived in No. 5 when their daughter, Barbara Strunz, was born (it was also the place of Barbara’s death, as she only lived for 22 days).  Another child, Franz Wirkner, was also born in Putschirn No. 5 – Franz Wirkner was the son of Theresia Möckl & Josef Wirkner, Theresia Möckl was the daughter of Maria Anna Möckl, who was the sister of Katharina Möckl (wife of Anton Strunz).

Putschirn No. 15 was also the home of Anton Strunz & his wife Katharina Möckl at another time in their lives.  We know that Anna Rosina Strunz was residing in No. 15 at the time of her marriage to Franz Karl Böhm, and that her sister Maria Anna Strunz was also living at that house at the time of her marriage to Joseph Ott.  Putschirn No. 15 was also the birthplace of some of the grandchildren of Anton & Katharina Strunz including Anton Böhm (son of Anna Rosina Strunz & Franz Karl Böhm) and Anna Rosina Ott, Franz Josef Ott, & Josef Ott (children of Josef Ott & Maria Anna Strunz).  [Josef Ott, who only lived 8 days, was born and died in No. 15.] 

Putschirn No. 17 was the birthplace of Joseph Strunz, son of Anton Strunz & Katharina Möckl (it was also his death location, as he survived only 8 days).

About 2 ½ years after the death of Anton & Katharina’s son, Joseph Strunz, they had another son that they also named Joseph.  Putschirn No. 7 was the birthplace of this second Joseph Strunz.

And Putschirn No. 25 was the house where Maria Anna Strunz and Joseph Ott were married (we do not know who this home belonged to).

[One thing that we’ve noticed is that all these families seemed to move around so often.  You hear that many people back in those times lived in the same town, or even in the same house for generations.  But it seems that on almost every family line that we research of our Bohemian ancestors we find that a family might have moved to a few different towns, and that they also seemed to move to different homes within the same town several times.  I wonder if that was common in these parts of Bohemia at that time, or if maybe it was more common that we might realize all throughout Europe in those days?]

Anyway, back to October 5^th:
There was a common theme that Stanislav told us with these towns: many of the houses were bombed during the war, or they survived the war but when the Germans were expelled from the Czech Republic after the war their churches and houses fell into disrepair and were later demolished. There weren't many houses in Putschirn. He told us about a small chapel that used to be there and was later demolished, but also said that the people there traveled to a town called Zettlitz for church.

Putschirn (now Počerny)

The next town down the street was Imligau, now Jimlikov, and he told us that many people there had been coal miners or miners for the material used to make porcelain. And we looked for houses 5, 7, 8, 14 & 17 there. . . . 

Here’s what we know so far about the ancestors who lived in these Imligau homes:

Imligau No. 5 was the death location of 3-month-old Maria Möckl, the illegitimate daughter of Theresia Möckl Wirkner, whose mother was Maria Anna Möckl, whose sister was Katharina Möckl wife of Anton Strunz.  This home was also the death location of 64-year-old Maria Anna Möckl.

Joseph Möckl & Margaretha Fischer [or Dutz] Winterling were married in Imligau No. 7 (we do not know who lived in this house).

Imligau No. 8 was a multi-generational house for our ancestral families.  It was the residence of my 5^th great grandmother, Margaretha Fischer [or Dutz] Winterling Möckl.  House No. 8 was the home of Andreas Winterling, the youngest son of Joseph Winterling and Margaretha Fischer [or Dutz], throughout his life until the time of his death at age 43 years.  No. 8 was the birthplace of all 5 of Andreas Winterling & Franziska Nachbar’s children: Theresia, Joseph, antoher daughter also named Theresia, Ottilia, & Anton Winterling.  After the death of Margaretha’s first husband, Joseph Winterling, House No. 8 was her residence at the time of her second marriage to Joseph Möckl.  Margaretha and Joseph made their home in No. 8.  Margaretha was still living in No. 8 when she died at age 65.  Some of the children of Margaretha & Joseph Möckl were later born in Imligau No. 8, including Anton Möckl, Anton Möckl (there were two sons with the name Anton), & Anna Rosina Möckl.  A generation later No. 8 was the birthplace of two of Anna Rosina Möckl’s illegitimate children, Anton and Theresia Möckl (and it was also the death location of Anton Möckl at the age of 1 month).  Katharina Möckl [my 4^th great grandmother] (daughter of Margaretha & Joseph Möckl, and wife of Anton Strunz) was born and lived in No. 8.  And Imligau No. 8 was also the birthplace of Andreas Möckl, the son of Katharina Möckl and an unknown father before Katharina’s marriage to Anton Strunz.  Later Katharina and Anton Strunz’s daughter, Maria Anna Strunz [my 3^rd great grandmother], was also born in house No. 8. 

Anton Strunz and Katharina Möckl were married in Imligau No. 14 (don’t know who lived in that house at the time of the marriage).  Later Anton and Katharina’s son, Anton Strunz, was born in No. 14. 

And Imligau No. 17 was the marriage location of my 5^th great grandmother, Margaretha Fischer [or Dutz] to her first husband, Joseph Winterling (don’t know who owned the home).  No. 17 was later the birth place of Andreas Winterling, Margaretha & Joseph’s youngest son [some records say that Andreas was born in Imligau No. 8, but his birth record lists No. 17 as the location.]

. . . We found two of those. House 14 was a nice little yellow house on the main street, and my ancestor Josef Möckl was married there. 

Imligau No. 14

And house 7 was further down the main street, where Maria Katharina Moeckl lived. I liked house 7, even though it was very run down with the plaster falling off and a broken window, but the front door was original.

Imligau No. 7

Then we went on to Chodau, now Chodov (pronounced something like ‘Hodov’).

The old square in Chodau (now Chodov) with the church in the background.

We just looked for two houses there, house 34 & 32.  Unterchodau [Lower Chodau] No. 34 was the birthplace of my 5^th great grandmother, Maria Anna Pecher.  Maria Anna Pecher continued to live in No. 34 later after she was married to Joseph Strunz, and Chodau No. 34 was also the birth place of Maria Anna & Joseph’s son, Anton Strunz (my 4^th great grandfather, [although we have also found a record listing Chodau No. 32 as Anton’s birth place].  Anton also lived in No. 32.  There were some houses with numbers close to those two, but we didn't find those. He said half that town was destroyed in the war. We went up the hill and took pictures of the church, a large pink building.

The Catholic church in Chodov

The knobs on the church doors

And we walked the cemetery and found some people with family names, but none we know how to link to our family at this time. We found Dutz and Fischer and some others there, and many of the old headstones gone.

The Chodov cemetery 

We are going to go tomorrow morning to Mass in that church, since there are no LDS churches at all in this half of the Czech Republic, and then we will get to see inside the church where our Strunz ancestors went, since the church is always locked except for mass on Sundays.

Then we continued down the road to another small town called Wintersgrun, now Vintířov, and looked for house 6, 10, 13, or 15, all houses where my direct ancestor Margaretha Fischer (or Dutz) Winterling Strunz lived.

The town of Wintersgrun (now Vintířov), with a small yellow chapel on the right.

Stanislav asked a few people where the houses might be, and someone said to go ask the firemen, so we went to the fire department and asked and they said that out of those only 15 was possibly still standing, and pointed us in the right direction. We drove and drove back and forth through those little streets looking for it, and only found a small garage off a little ways from any houses that had a number 15 on it. There was a very small, run down, abandoned house not far from the garage that seemed to be the same grey color as the garage, but had no number, so I thought that must be it.

Wintersgrun No. 15: (Garage with House Number sign)

But Mom thought it was a nice looking big old orange house behind a gate down beyond the garage. And after a lot if searching and talking to people, he finally rang the bell at the gate of the orange house, a lady answered, and she confirmed it had originally been house 15. (I had hoped maybe she'd invite us in to see the house, but she didn't). Oh well, at least we found it for sure even though there was no number on the house - couldn't have done that without a Czech-speaking guide. . . .” 

Wintersgrun No. 15: The sunny, orange house beyond the garage.

Czech Records: Barbara Strunz

Barbara Strunz was the younger sister of my 3rd great grandmother, Anna Strunz Ott. Her parents were Anton Strunz and Katharina Möckl.

Barbara Strunz
Czech Birth Records, Book VI Putschirn, page 14
Photographs IMG_0528 through IMG_0535, IMG_3210 through IMG_3213
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 21 May 2008 by Sister Gunhild Stefano 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 2 February 1857, Baptized 2 February 1857, [name of pastor], name of child: Barbara, Catholic, Female, Legitimate,
Place and House Number: Putschirn Number 5 the former sovereignty of Elbogen, now in the district of Elbogen in Eger
Midwife: Anna Kohler in Putschirn
Father: Anton Strunz day laborer in Imligau in Putschirn N. 5, born in Unterchodau, the son of Josef Strunz a day laborer in Unterchodau Number 34 and M Anna [Maria Anna] born Pecher from Bernau in the district of Meudek, county Eger.
Mother: Katharina born Moeckl from Imligau Number 8, the legitimate daughter of Josef Möckl a day laborer in Imligau and Margaretha born Fischer from Wintersgrün formerly in the sovereignty of the district of Elbogen.
Witnesses: Rosina Pleinerin and her husband Josef Piligner, farmers in Putschirn Number 8.Note: Died on 23 February 887.”

Czech Records: Andreas Möckl

Andreas Möckl was the son of my 4th great grandmother, Katharina Möckl. Although my parents didn’t photograph a birth record for Andreas Möckl, they did photograph the birth record of Andreas’ daughter, Theresia Möckl. This is where we learned that Andreas Möckl was the son of Katharina Möckl. The record said, “Andreas Möckl a miner, born in Imligau Number 8, son of Katharina Möckl who is now married to Strunz in Putschirn Number 15.” So, we can see that Katharina Möckl had her son, Andreas, out of wedlock, and that she later married her husband, Anton Strunz. But we cannot tell from this record whether Anton Strunz was the biological father of Andreas Möckl, or not.

Theresia Möckl
Czech Birth Records, Book VI Putschirn, page 60
Photographs IMG_0585 through IMG_0591, IMG_0608 through IMG_0614
Photographs of birth records taken by Amy Lynn Spohr Chidester and Steven John Chidester on their trip to the Czech Republic in February 2008 (digital copies of these photographs in the possession of Stephanie Chidester Bradshaw). Translated on 20 May 2008 by Sister Frieda Kindt of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Milwaukee 1st Ward building, Brookfield, Wisconsin. Transcribed by Stephanie Bradshaw.

"Born 1 September 1872, Baptized 1 September 1872, [name of pastor], name of child: Theresia, Catholic, Female, Legitimate,
Place and House Number: Putschirn Number 18
Midwife: Anna Wurzberger in Altenhlau [or Altrohlau?] testified
Father: Andreas Möckl a miner, born in Imligau Number 8, son of Katharina Möckl who is now married to Strunz in Putschirn Number 15, and she is the legitimate daughter of the deceased Josef Möckl born in Imligau and the deceased Margareth born Fischer of Rausergrun [or Wundertgrun?] Number 13.
Mother: Francisca born Hochberger of Södau Number 8, the legitimate daughter of Franz Hochberger a miner in Ottowitz Number 21 and the deceased Theresia born Funk of Södau Number 8.Witnesses: Katharina Nachbar [this surname means ‘neighbor’] the wife of Franz Nachbar a shoemanker in Altrohlau”

Czech Records: Children of Anton Strunz and Katharina Möckl

I wanted to make sure that I finished posting those Czech birth records. These are the birth records that we found for the children of Anton Strunz and Katharina Möckl (my 4th great grandparents):

Andreas Möckl (son of Katharina Möckl)
Anna Strunz
Barbara Strunz
Josef Strunz (1)
Josef Strunz (2)

I’ll start posting the birth records for each of these children now.

Czech Records: Franz Josef Ott

And here is the record for Josef Ott and Anna Strunz’s son, Franz Josef Ott. Franz Josef Ott, who went by Frank or ‘Frankie’ after coming to America, was Anna Marie Ott Spohr’s younger brother.

Franz Josef Ott
Czech Birth Records, Book VI Putschirn, page 79
Photographs IMG_0523 through IMG_0527, and IMG_592 through IMG_0600
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 21 May 2008 by Sister Gunhild Stefano 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 9 June 1877, Baptized 10 June 1877, [name of pastor], name of child: Franz Josef, Catholic, Male, Legitimate,
Place and House Number: Putschirn Number 15
Midwife: Anna Wurzberger in Altrohlau [or Altrenlau?] testified
Father: Josef Ott a miller from Kohling Number 69 old/6 new, the legitimate son of Ignaz Ott a cottager in Kohling Number 69 and Johanna born Meisner of Kohling Number 29.
Mother: Anna Strunz from Imligau Number 8 in the district Elbogen, the legitimate daughter of the deceased Anton Strunz a home owner in Putschirn Number 15 and Katharina born Möckl from Imligau.Witnesses: Franz and Rosina Böhm in Putschirn, ___? married couple”

And like his older sister, Anna Rosina, we have a birth certificate for Franz Josef Ott that has been passed down in the family:

German family document 002
Spohr family documents in the possession of Beverly Monk Spohr of Lee’s Summit, Missouri as of 2006. Scanned copies of the documents are in possession of Stephanie Chidester Bradshaw [numbers were assigned to each document by Stephanie Bradshaw in order to keep track of which translation referred to each document]. Translated and transcribed on 14 February 2008 by Stephanie Bradshaw.

“District Eger Register Book VI Page 79
District Karlsbad Number 224 no[?]
Birthplace Putschirn N. 15
Baptismal Certificate
Day, Month, and Year of
Birth Baptism
9 June 10 June
In the year 1877
seventy seven
Name
of the baptismal witness Of the child
Anton Weigl, Ca____[occupation] Franz Joseph
Religion
Catholic
Legitimate or Illegitimate
Legitimate
Father
Josef Ott, Miller from Kohling N 69 old/6 new. Legitimate son of Ignaz Ott, Cottager in Kohling N 69 and Johanna nee Meisner from Kolhing N 29.
Mother
Anna nee Strunz from Imligau N 8 Elbogen district. Legitimate daughter of Anton Strunz, Cottager in Putschirn N 15 and Katharina nee Möckl from Imligau.
Godparents
Franz and Rosina Böhm ___ ___ in Putschirn
Midwife
Anna Wayberger[?] ___ ___
Given of the Minister’s Office from Lettlitz on 14 April 1890.”

Czech Records: Anna Rosina Ott

Now I will post the records that were found for two of Josef Ott and Anna Strunz’ children, Anna Rosina Ott and Franz Josef Ott.

We have a rather interesting conundrum with my 2nd great grandmother, Anna Marie Ott Spohr, and her sister, Anna Rosina Ott. From our family history that was passed down through the family, we knew that Anna Marie was a twin. Anna Marie came here to the United States, but I always wondered if her twin sister, Anna Rosina, stayed in Europe, or may have possibly also come to America. And before Anna Marie had my great grandfather, Carl John Spohr, she had twin boys who were stillborn. (I always wondered about the possibility of me having twins, since I knew that twins ran on both my mother’s and my father’s side of the family – with the Otts and Spohrs on my mom’s side; and with my dad’s father, John Leo Chidester, being a twin himself – and on Michael’s side of the family, with his uncles being twins). And my mom said that her mother, Beverly Monk Spohr, specifically remembers Anna Marie Ott Spohr (who she and my grandpa both referred to as ‘Grandma Spohr’) telling her that she was a twin herself, and that she also had twins.

When I was first starting to do genealogy years ago, I remember finding different spellings and name variations for Anna Marie’s and her twin sister’s names on handwritten family notes. At one point I had recorded that one sister was named Anna Marie, and the other was named Marie Anna. And another spelling I found for the twin sister’s name was Anna Rosean. But when I found the old German records at my grandparent’s house, I knew I had found the correct spelling for my great, great grandmother’s twin sister’s name, it was very clearly written on an official birth/baptismal certificate: Anna Rosina Ott. And her birth date was the same as Anna Marie’s, so it had to be her, the twin sister. It didn’t seem odd, either, that my family had this birth certificate, even though Anna Rosina was not our direct ancestor, because they also had a similar birth certificate for Franz Josef Ott, Anna’s younger brother. So it was reasonable that they kept copies of the birth certificates of their siblings. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a birth certificate for Anna Marie, and I just figured that her certificate had been lost or destroyed.

So, when my parents went to the Czech Republic and found the birth book for the town of Putschirn, they were excited to find the birth record for Anna Rosina Ott, but perplexed that there was no record of a twin sister, Anna Marie Ott (or for any other sister who was not a twin, for that matter).

When reading the birth record, my parents figured out that it said that Anna Rosina Ott was an illegitimate child. And there was an extra note written below the birth record that explained that Anna Rosina was “legitimized” by the marriage of her father, Josef Ott, to her mother on 22 September 1874 (1 month and 12 days after Anna Rosina was born).
They started wondering why Anna Marie Ott wouldn’t have appeared in the records – if she was Anna Rosina’s twin, she would have been right there on the same page. And the German Catholic records are so extensive, that it’s highly unlikely that they would have recorded the birth of one twin, and accidentally omitted the other twin. So, we got to thinking that maybe Anna Marie Ott really was Anna Rosina Ott. But why would she tell her granddaughter-in-law (my Grandma Bev) and other family members that she had a twin sister? The only possible reason we could think of for creating a story like that was that maybe she was attempting to hide the fact that she was born out of wedlock, by changing her name from the one on the record that said she was illegitimate (although, if this were the case, logically she would have told people that the illegitimate child was an older sister, because if a twin sister is illegitimate, then the other twin would be too). But there is clearly no twin listed in the records. Even stillborn children were recorded in these birth books, so there would really be no reason to have the records for only one twin. But we just can’t really figure out any really good reason for her to have created a story like that. So, I guess for now, I will continue to list Anna Marie Ott and her twin sister, Anna Rosina Ott, in my genealogy file, until (if) we ever find anything more conclusive to prove that there was or was not a sister.

Anna Rosina Ott
Czech Birth Records, Book VI Putschirn, page 68
Photographs IMG_0511 through IMG_0522, IMG_0608 through IMG_0614
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 10 August 1874, Baptized 10 August 1874, [name of pastor], name of child: Anna Rosina, Catholic, Female, Illegitimate,
Note in Latin: Legitimized per marriage of father, see Putschirn VII page 8.
Note in German: Josef Ott is well known and it is recorded that he is the father of the child. Graslitz on 22 September 1874. [signed by the pastor and witnesses,] Robert Ott witness, Alois Dörr witness.
Father: Josef Ott miller and carpenter (house builder) born in Kohling Number 69 old/8 new, legitimate son of the deceased Ignaz Ott cottager in Kohling Number 19 and Johanna born Meisner in Kohling Number 29.
Note: Josef Ott child's father.
Mother: Anna Strunz born in Imligau Number 8, Elbogen district, daughter of the deceased Anton Strunz, cottager and day laborer in Putschirn Number 15 and Katharina born Möckl of Imligau. Witnesses: Rosina Behm housewife of Franz Böhm, day laborer in Putschirn."

And following is the birth certificate that our family had for Anna Rosina Ott – I believe that the Czech birth registry books were the original birth records, and that the certificates were copied from the information in the books. So, it’s not surprising that this certificate gives us no new information after looking at the birth book.

German family document 008
Spohr family documents in the possession of Beverly Monk Spohr of Lee’s Summit, Missouri as of 2006. Scanned copies of the documents are in possession of Stephanie Chidester Bradshaw [numbers were assigned to each document by Stephanie Bradshaw in order to keep track of which translated was related to which document]. Translated on 14 February 2007 by Sister Gonhild Stefano 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.

“N. Exh. 225 main office of the area:
Karl
District:
[Stamped 1888] Putschirn
Baptism
Looking at the document from 1888 we find in the birth and baptism document for Putschirn book/volume VI page 68 certified, that
Anna Rosina Ott
The daughter of the couple Josef Ott, Miller and Carpenter: born in Kohling no. 68 old/6 new, son of Ignaz Ott living in Kohling no. 69 and Johanna born Meisner from Kohling, and Anna born Strunz born in Imligau no. 8 district Elbogen, married daughter of Anton Strunz living in Putschirn no. 15 and of Katharina born Mockl in Imligau.
on 10 August 1874
one thousand eight hundred and seventy four
in Putschirn no. 15
born in the church of Zettlitz on 10 August from Constantine Winter, chaplain of the Catholic church baptized her. And the godmother Rosina Behm the wife of the worker [paid by the day] Franz Behm and the witness was Anna Warzberger proved midwife in Altrohlau.
Certificates of those and the signature of those that did this and next to it the seal of the priest.
Given by the priest of Zettlitz
on 14 April 1890
[stamped and signed by the chaplain]
printed and sealed at _pis Warnsdorf”