Von: brucenoe@cybercable.tm.fr (Bruce NOE)
  Datum: 06.05.98, 13:11:45
Betreff: Re: Birth dates

While studying Catholic Church books in the Mosbach region of northern
Baden, I have found that throughout the 19th century, the infants were
baptized on the day of birth or the next day. Normally the father took
the child to the church. However, sometimes the priest went to the house
where the child was born.

This is a typical birth record from 1822:

Am zehnten November Nacht um 8 Uhr ist zu Heidersbach geboren und zu
Limbach in der Kirche am elften November Nachtmittag um 3 Uhr getauft
worden, ein Sohn Franz Martin. Vater: Martin Noe, Weber in Heidersbach.
Mutter: Katharina geboren Kraus von Rittersbach. Zeugen: Georg Peter
Noe, Schuhmacher und Barthel Benig, Bauer, beide allda.

Translation:

On the tenth of November at 8 o'clock at night was born in Heidersbach
and in Limbach in the church on the eleventh of November at 3 o'clock in
the afternoon was baptized, a son Franz Martin. Father: Martin Noe,
weaver in Heidersbach. Mother: Katharina born Kraus from Rittersbach.
Witnesses: Georg Peter Noe, shoemaker and Bathel Benig, farmer, both
from there.

I hope this helps those of you who are starting to research "Die
Kirchenbücher in Baden".

Bruce Noé
Stasbourg, France