Dear colleagues,
We have been asked to identify a mystery document and are less than confident about how to reply. If anyone would like to have a go, here is the link to our blog, where there is a copy of it:
http://recordoffice.wordpress.com/2013/06/27/what-does-this-document-say-how-did-it-end-up-in-buxton/
The document was uncovered at the Pavilion Gardens in Buxton, during work on the floor in the Octagon Hall kitchen. The Gardens were not opened until 1871, yet this document is dated 1850. Where is it from? What was it for? And in what language is it written?
My first thought was German, because I can see the month written as "Januar", but I didn't recognise any of the diacritics. We have enough in-house expertise to determine that the language is neither Dutch nor Swedish. One attempted transcription has the date as "24ten August, 1850" and, before that, under the underlined name, "ist in ? Stadt am dreissigsten January 1818 ... geboren". Which makes it sound like a birth certificate. It may also say "das Magistrat" before the name of the town. And what of the town? If it says Roonburg, then we are in modern-day Germany, or, in 1850, the western extremity of Prussia.
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Many thanks,
Mark Smith
Duty Archivist
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