Thomæ, Susanna Barbara

1626 - 1626  (0 years)

• Name	Thomæ, Susanna Barbara  [1, 2]
  Birth	16 Nov 1626	Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	16 Nov 1626	Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany   [2]
  Death	16 Nov 1626	Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany   [2]
  Burial	16 Nov 1626	Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany   [2]
  Person ID	I18317	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	Thomæ, Christoph,   b. Between 1590 and 1598, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany d. 6 Jun 1634, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany (Age 44 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Kob, Mrs Anna,   b. UNKNOWN, Germany d. Bef 4 Apr 1628, Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	10 Feb 1618	Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany   [1, 2]
  Family ID	F6176	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 16 Nov 1626 - Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany Baptism - 16 Nov 1626 - Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany Death - 16 Nov 1626 - Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany Burial - 16 Nov 1626 - Hildburghausen, Hildburghausen, Thüringen, Germany  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos

  THOMÆ, Susanna Barbara Death 16 Nov 1626 Hildburghuasen

  
  

• Notes

  From Wilbur Hanson Kalb: Sorry about the delay but I had a lot of trouble with the third word of the second line of the 1626  burial entry of Christoph Thomæ’s baby girl.  At first I thought it was a mangle of a misspelling and a correction but a closer reading showed that it was actually a compound verb — and an unusual one.  It’s the combination of graef, the Dutch word for “grave”, and tauft, the German word for “baptize” = graeftauft, “baptized by the grave”.   I know infant mortality was very high in the 17th Century but I’ve never seen such a word before.  Sometimes a baby would die so fast that there was no time to fetch the pastor.  Sometimes the parents had had to perform an emergency baptism ; that was allowed by both Catholic and Protestant Churches in those days.  That’s why the parish registers are sprinkled with mentions of home baptisms throughout the centuries.  I’m guessing that the baby’s resurrection stopped her funeral and her father, being the local Diakonus, wasn’t taking any chances with her baptism.  Hence the following transcription and translation but, as you’ll see, in spite of the emergency, the daughter did not get a name The German transcription : 16 [ November 1626, Donnerstag ] Hr. Christoph Thomæ Diaconi Tochter, lein so greaftaūft [ not graeftaūft ] werd [ = wird ] begraben. The English translation : 16 [ November 1626, Thursday ] Mr. Christoph Thomae Diaconus little daughter, having been baptized by the grave, will be buried. In the Gregorian Calendar, 16 November 1626 was 26 November 1626.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1470] GERMANY: THÙRINGIA: Pfarrerbuch Book 7 Sachsen - Meiningen. Pfarrerbuch Book 7 Sachsen-Meiningen [S1119] GERMANY: THÜRINGIA: Evangelical Church of Hildburghausen, Thüringia, Germany. https://www.archion.de [S433] CONTRIBUTORS:. Kelly, Kevin: ksj1957@aol.com