Friday, May 21, 2010

Wyneken’s Baptism

On 22 May 1810 Friedrich Conrad Dietrich Wyneken was baptized into the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ by his father, Pastor Heinrich Wyneken, in the Saint Andreas Church, Verden, Hannover.

His birth/baptismal entry from the church records reads:

On the 22nd [of May 1810]:

The son of Pastor Heinrich Christoph Wyneken and of my wife, Anna Catharine Louise, nee Meyer Wyneken, who was born on the 13th. He is named: Friedrich Conrad Diedrich.
Godfathers: My brother, the Danish Major, and the Superintendent Wyneken of Ratzeburg and High Court Administrator Johann Diederich Schwarz of Ritterhude.
Witnesses of the Baptism: H. H. Dr. Carelson and Postmaster Cramm.


— Translated by Robert E. Smith and Matthew Wyneken
(Photographs courtesy Pastor Christoph Barnbrock, Zion Lutheran Church [SELK], Verden, Hannover)

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