Gregor Colling's Birth Certificate

English translation
No. 19............... Birth Document
At Neuerburg in the County of Bitburg, on the sixth of the month of December, eighteen hundred forty-seven, at three p.m. there appeared before me Mathias Kerscht, Adjunct, as the official for Civil Registration of the mayorship of Lahr, Theodor Colling, forty-four years old, of the occupation of stonemason, resident at Lahr, who declared to me that by his wife Elisabetha nee' Schadeck, without occupation, forty years old, resident at Lahr, there was born a child of male sex on the fourth of December of this year at four o'clock p.m. in his residence, to which
child the name Gregor was given.

This declaration taken by me occurred in the presence of both witnesses, namely:
1. Mathias Ambros, fifty-three years old, of the profession of blacksmith, resident of Neuerburg,
2. Johann Gregor Ambros, twenty-eight years old, of the profession of blacksmith, resident at Neuerburg.
The present document was then read aloud to the declarer and the witnesses and signed with me in double original by the same.
Signed: .....Theodor Colling, ..........Mathias Ambros, ..........J. G. Ambros,.......... M. Kerscht