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Thank you, very useful

Hallo again Jan
I've had another quick look at that marriage record. It's fascinating but headache-inducing!

I haven't got very far but Johann Georg's father's name, the one that looks like Grimmy, is Heinrich I think. I believe that's what you were hoping it would be. I can sort of follow the letters through and am reasonably confident that is his name. After his name, Heinrich Gobel, there is another word that I think is his address or at least the name of the road. I can't read the name but believe the bit at the end that looks like M or N followed by something and a double f is "strasse" which just means street or road. It looks as though Carolina's parents and Johann's parents lived in the same road.

Under Carolina's date of birth there is a short word that looks as though it starts with f. This word keeps cropping up on that page of the register and I think it may be "hier" which just means here. I think it may be used to mean in this parish.

It's not much but if nothing else it might help to confirm what you already know. Of course, a German speaker with an expert knowledge of old handwriting might come along and tell you that I have got it all wrong which wouldn't surprise me at all. My last German lesson was nearly 60 years ago!

Thank you for spending so much time on this for me - I'm even beginning to understand some of what I'm seeing, especially on the records where the writing is neat and clear (and beautiful in its way).