Baptismal Notice for Elize Schuetz, 1865 (1)

Title

Baptismal Notice for Elize Schuetz, 1865 (1)

Description

This document comes from the family of Bill Dean, Margaret Dean's husband, who are the second great-grandchildren of Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz. It is a baptismal notice from Parli family to Schuetz's second daughter Elize sponsors wrote as keepsake of the baptismal day. Baptismal notices (Tauzettel, Taufbriefe, Taufhelgeli) have been an attribute of the baptismal ritual in the German lands since as early as 13th century. Earliest surviving notices date back to the late 16th century. Short notices with quotations from the Bible or folk blessings often accompanied baptismal gifts (often a little purse with money) from the sponsors, and served as a reminder to the parents of the baptized. The baptismal notices of the Schuetz family are decorated with block-printed ornaments executed black or blue ink and hand-colored with various degrees of precision.

The Gottlieb and Anna Schuetz received this notice on the day of their second child Elize's baptismal from Anna's family, the Parlis.

Elize Schuetz was the second child in the family born on April 17, 1865. She died in the vicinity of Humboldt, Nebraska on September 17, 1877, the year she turned twelve.

The Schuetzes' daughter Maria (Mary) Schuetz, born in 1867 in Switzerland started the Dean family line marrying German-born Dirk Sutorius in Humboldt, Nebraska 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).

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Source

Family of Bill Dean, Nebraska City History Harvest, 2010

Date

1865

Format

document

Language

German

Type

image

Coverage

Canton Berne (Switzerland)

Original Format

baptismal notice

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nebc_dean_margaret_0204.jpg

Collection

Citation

“Baptismal Notice for Elize Schuetz, 1865 (1),” History Harvest, accessed March 29, 2024, https://historyharvest.unl.edu/items/show/278.

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