Crest of the City of Lauterbourg

BIRTH RECORD OF FRANZ LUDWIG LAUER

CIVIL RECORDS OF LAUTERBOURG

(Translation from the German entry)

Today the 22d day of Month Nivôse in the 9th Year of the French Republic (this translates to: 12 January 1801 in the modern calendar) came in front of me civil officer of the town hall Carl Friedrich Trauth, in LAUTERBOURG, Bas Rhin, elected to write down the records of the citizens; 3 p.m.

JOHANN PHILIPP LAUER, burgher and administrator of the Fortification of this city, and declared that his wife: FRANCISCA RAUBER, legitimate, gave birth yesterday at 3 PM to a son who received the name of FRANCOIS LOUIS (Franz Ludwig); this declaration was made in presence of witnesses Stephan Rottenmann₁ sergeant of this town, aged 50, and Jacob Hauck, merchant here aged 40 who undersigned the present entry with me civil officer and the father of the child Johann Philipp Lauer, on the day named above.

Signed: Anton Lauer

Marianna Lauer J P Lauer

Jacob Hauck

Stephan Gattemann

Below are notes form Marie-Odile PERES, Genealogist

Note: the two other LAUER names are not cited in the record; they are not found in the civil records either; they may be found later in LAUTERBOURG records (church) or STRASBOURG; to be checked further.

 Note: LAUTERBOURG is near the Rhine, north of ALSACE, on the German border, arrondissement is WISSEMBOURG, district is Lauterbourg.

It was fortified by Vauban in the 18th century; the King and later the Republic had these fortifications worked on and surveyed by officers or civil agents.

This was the situation of JOHANN PHILIPP LAUER who came to the city for this reason.