1866 Family Letter, Kurrent, help!

[Æthlstan]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hey everyone, I am trying really hard to transcript this letter. I have gotten some of the words right and I think I know generally what the letter is about, but it is a family document that I'm hoping will help further my genealogical research....so general knowledge isn't enough. 

 

It is in the Kurrent script with some English cursive thrown in from time to time. Kurrent was used officially through the 1940s, and in the 1970s they stopped teaching it in schools. 

 

The letter was likely written in the Midwestern United States but I wont know that until I know who wrote it and what it says. 

 

If anyone can transcribe it in the original german, I would much appreciate it. I'd like to see the german words in type, so if you translate it too, please let me see the german as well

 

 

Any help is very much appreciated! Thank you!

 

[Archer11]

Let us see, what I can remember from the letters my grandma wrote. Hope I do not make too many errors... 

It wasn't written in the mid-western USA, but northern Germany, it's a birth certificate

 

Maria Dorothea Henriette, legitimate daughter

to the day-labourer Johann Carl Friederich
Kudow from Tramstow and the Dorothea
Elisabeth Wilhelm, was born in the year 1800
thirty eight on the thirteenth (13)
of March and baptised on the 25th of March

this is attested officially

 

Medow, 27th of March 1866

the... (can't read the title of the guy who signed it, sorry)

Zetting (I hope, I read the name correctly)

 

Maria Dorothea Henriette, eheliche Tochter
des Tagelöhners Johann Carl Friederich
Kudow in Tramstow und der Dorothea
Elisabeth Wilhelm, ist im Jahre 1800
acht und dreißig am dreizehnten (13)
März geboren und am 25 März
getauft.
dies bescheinigt amtlich

Medow, 27. März 1866

der S...rat

Zetting

Edited July 29, 2016 by Archer11

[Æthlstan]

Thank you so much. I appreciate it