And may I say: given how thoroughly bombed Berlin was, and that church records not involving a Hohenzollern probably were low on the evacuation and safe keeping priority list, it's nothing short of amazing that all these records still exist and survived long enough to be digitalized.
I know! I was lamenting to Royal Patron in 2021 that I didn't know where Peter was buried, and he said, "Well, that information is out there waiting to be found!" and I said, "You're forgetting about the bombing in WWII. It might very well not be."
But he was right, it was! (I am still surprised.)
Maybe someone transcribed badly? If you write 2 and 3 sloppily, I could see a mistake being made, but then I haven't seen the original.
I thought of that and looked before posting, and I'm *pretty* sure they're a 2 and a 3, but as always, Prinzsorgenfrei can weigh in.
his lengthy and heartfelt entry on Peter
<3
the next printed date is January 11 1757.
Yeah, I searched through the index and the search function for any Keith mentions and collated them back in the day, and didn't get anything on the burial. (But always feel free to check yourself, search functions and indexing are error prone.)
I also turned up a marriage and burial record that I *think* may be one of Peter's brothers, whom Kloosterhuis mentions as a possible candidate for not!Robert. His name is Johann Friedrich, Kloosterhuis says he lived 1714-1793 and lived in East Prussia. I have a marriage record for a Johann Friederich in East Prussia in 1744 (definitely the right age for a first marriage) and a death record for a Joh. Fried. Keitt in 1793 in West Prussia.
On the other hand, there's a Michael Fredersdorf getting married in Berlin in October 1754 who is not our Michael Fredersdorf, so could be a different Keith!
[ETA: The marriage one has a von and is spelled correctly and is in at least the right region; I just realized that in *addition* ot having the wrong spelling and being in the wrong place, the 1793 death has no "von". So I'm inclined to think the burial record is unrelated, but the marriage still might be.]
In other news, I knew Suhm had lost two children at young ages (2 and 10), but it was still sad seeing their burial records.
Also, the handwriting of all the records I found in Dresden is weird! Very loopy, almost looks like Georgian.
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Re: Peter Keith in the archives!
Date: 2023-01-22 04:40 pm (UTC)Confirm, not continue.
And may I say: given how thoroughly bombed Berlin was, and that church records not involving a Hohenzollern probably were low on the evacuation and safe keeping priority list, it's nothing short of amazing that all these records still exist and survived long enough to be digitalized.
I know! I was lamenting to Royal Patron in 2021 that I didn't know where Peter was buried, and he said, "Well, that information is out there waiting to be found!" and I said, "You're forgetting about the bombing in WWII. It might very well not be."
But he was right, it was! (I am still surprised.)
Maybe someone transcribed badly? If you write 2 and 3 sloppily, I could see a mistake being made, but then I haven't seen the original.
I thought of that and looked before posting, and I'm *pretty* sure they're a 2 and a 3, but as always, Prinzsorgenfrei can weigh in.
his lengthy and heartfelt entry on Peter
<3
the next printed date is January 11 1757.
Yeah, I searched through the index and the search function for any Keith mentions and collated them back in the day, and didn't get anything on the burial. (But always feel free to check yourself, search functions and indexing are error prone.)
I also turned up a marriage and burial record that I *think* may be one of Peter's brothers, whom Kloosterhuis mentions as a possible candidate for not!Robert. His name is Johann Friedrich, Kloosterhuis says he lived 1714-1793 and lived in East Prussia. I have a marriage record for a Johann Friederich in East Prussia in 1744 (definitely the right age for a first marriage) and a death record for a Joh. Fried. Keitt in 1793 in West Prussia.
On the other hand, there's a Michael Fredersdorf getting married in Berlin in October 1754 who is not our Michael Fredersdorf, so could be a different Keith!
[ETA: The marriage one has a von and is spelled correctly and is in at least the right region; I just realized that in *addition* ot having the wrong spelling and being in the wrong place, the 1793 death has no "von". So I'm inclined to think the burial record is unrelated, but the marriage still might be.]
In other news, I knew Suhm had lost two children at young ages (2 and 10), but it was still sad seeing their burial records.
Also, the handwriting of all the records I found in Dresden is weird! Very loopy, almost looks like Georgian.