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Burial: a woman of Gerd Brand's household at Linse, aged 26, dead of dropsy, 12 April 1713

Transcript and translation

Uncertain readings are marked [?] or set in brackets; words that could not be read are marked as such. Each transcript is shown as written, with its transcriber’s notes.

Transcription (original language)

d\. 12 April. Gerd Brand zu Linse [Schleifer? Schleisher?] [Ehe?]frau der Wassersucht gestorben, aet. 26 Jahr.

Translation (English)

12 April: [a woman, the word for her tie unread] of Gerd Brand of Linse, "…frau," died of dropsy, aged 26.

Notes

Gerd's wife would be about 40 or more in 1713, so this is not she. A daughter-in-law or a daughter married into the house: THEORY. Grade: STATED that the entry names Gerd Brand of Linse; the relation THEORY.