Johann Colling's Birth Document

The Colling Family in America, Volume 2, pg. 33, 35
English Translation
No. 7 Birth Document

In the year one thousand eight hundred forty-one, on the third of the month of June, at six o'clock p.m., there appeared before me Joseph Wilhelm von Neussorge, commissioned Mayor and Civil Registrar of the Mayorship of Larn in the County of Bitburg, Governing District of Trier, Rural Court District of Trier, Theodor Colling, thirty-seven years old, a stonemason by profession, resident at Lahn, in the presence of Jakob Ney, sixty-two years old, a cooper by profession, resident at Neuerburg, and Johann Gregor Ambros, twenty-two years old, a blacksmith by profession, resident at Neuerburg, and declared, presenting a child, that in the year one thousand eight hundred forty-one, at eleven o'clock p.m., on the second of June at Lahr, there was born this child of male sex of Theodore Colling, thirty-seven years old, a stonemason by profession, resident at Lahr, and his wife Elisabetha Schadeck, thirty-four years old, resident at Lahr, who received the given name
Johann.
.....Whereupon the present document was written and after being read aloud it was signed in double original by the declarer, the named witnesses, and the Civil Registrar.

Done at Neuerburg on the day, month, and year as above.


Signed: .....Theodor Colling, ..........J. G. Ambros, ..........Jocob Ney ..... .....V. Neussorge.