Friedrich Schuetz's Baptismal Certificate

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Friedrich Schuetz's Baptismal Certificate

Description

This is a baptismal certificate for Friedrich Schuetz, the fourth child of Bill Dean's second great-grandfather Gottlieb Schuetz. A son of soap manufacturers Hans (John) Schuetz and Magdalena Luthi, Gottlieb was born in 1838 in Canton Berne, Switzerland. He married Anna Parli who also came from Canton Berne, Switzerland in 1863 and immigrated to Humboldt, Nebraska in 1870. Friedrich was their last child, born in Switzerland on October 3, 1868. He never married and died in the house of his brother Arnold, the eldest in the family on August 29th, 1912.

Friedrich's elder sister Maria Schuetz started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in 1889. Sutorius' daughter Emma, born in 1890 married a recent emigrant from Germany (1908) Edo F. Harms in 1914. All three generations lived in Humboldt, Nebraska in close proximity with various relatives (Emma Sutorius's uncle John Schuetz lived right next door to her family according to the 1930 census).

Baptismal certificates in the mid-19th century most probably served as a birth certificate, identifying parents (Eltern), witnesses of baptism (Zeugen) and date and place of birth down to the district (Amtsbezirk) and parish (Kirchgemeinde).

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Source

Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010

Date

1868

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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document

Language

German

Type

image

Coverage

Canton Berne (Switzerland)

Original Format

baptismal certificate

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nebc_dean_margaret_0107.jpg

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Citation

“Friedrich Schuetz's Baptismal Certificate,” History Harvest, accessed March 28, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/274.

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