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Category: Translation - German
Approval Date: 5/6/2026 4:20 PM
Family Surname: Falkenstein
Country: Germany
Town: Richelsdorf
Date of Image: 1876

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Hi! Could you please transcribe or translate this for me? Thanks!

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5/6/2026 5:36 PM

(I incorporated the marginal note into the main body of the record.)

Nr. 5.

Suess am 23. Merz 1876.

Vor dem unterzeichneten Standesbeamten erschien heute, der Persönlichkeit nach bekannt, der Schuhmacher Levi Falkenstein, wohnhaft zu Richelsdorf, Steinkaute Nr. 92, und zeigte an,

daß der Schuhmachermeister Gabriel Falkenstein, 59 Jahre 9 M[onate] 6 T[age] alt, israelitischer Religion, wohnhaft zu Richelsdorf, Steinkaute 92, geboren zu Richelsdorf, verheirathet gewesen mit der noch lebenden Johannette geb. Werthheim; Sohn des Buchbinders Victor Gabriel und dessen Ehefrau Gellchen geb. Hirsch zu Richelsdorf

zu Richelsdorf am zwei und zwanzigsten Merz des Jahres tausend acht hundert siebenzig und sechs Nachmittags um zehn Uhr verstorben sei.

Vorgelesen, genehmigt und unterschrieben:
gez. Levi Falkenstein.

Der Standesbeamte.
J. H. Gonnermann.

Die Uebereinstimmung mit dem Hauptregister beglaubigt
Suess am 23ten Merz 1876.

Der Standesbeamte.
J. H. Gonnermann.

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Submitted by Federico Matias Falkenstein

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Submitted by Federico Matias Falkenstein