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From: Jim Garrity <>
Subject: Re: [NYBROOKLYN-L] Cemetery, church and birth questions
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:17:46 -0400


> I have a few questions that maybe someone on this list
> can help me with:
>
> 1) Has anyone heard of Lathem or Lathern Cemetery? My
> gggrandmother, Johanna Louise Maria Bostwick, died on
> Nov. 9, 1889 at home at 269 Lorimer Street, Brooklyn,
> NY at the age of 22. Her death certificate, issued by
> the Dept. of Health in the City of Brooklyn, says she
> was buried in what looks like Lath??? Cemetery
> (although the 't' is not crossed). The undertaker was
> Henry May and his place of business is listed as South
> 3rd Haus?? or Hous?? (after the 'h' it is cut off).
>
>
Hello, Karen!

Well, it would be my bet that the Certificate is "trying" to say
"Lutheran Cemetery"..........
but, if you could scan the document and e-mail a copy to me, I'd be glad
to help you try to "nail it down"................

> 2) Is there a website somewhere which lists all
> churches in NYC, not just a particular denomination?
> The LDS Family Search turned up Johanna and her
> brother as being baptized in a church called the First
> German Presbyterian Church on Rivington Street in NYC.
> I've done a search all of the online yellow pages that
> I know of and I can't find any record of this church.
>
This Church is __long__ gone...........It's records are, I believe,
available at the LDS FHC Centers, though......

> 3) In what year did it became mandatory in NYC and
> Brooklyn to obtain a birth certificate after a child
> is born? I have found Johanna's birth certificate, but
> I cannot find her daughter, Caroline Alnora
> Bostwick's, birth certificate. All records (several
> censuses, her death certificate, her children's birth
> certificates, etc.) show her birthdate as 9/30/1886 in
> Brooklyn or NYC, yet I cannot find her name on any
> index for that year.
>
>
Civil registration of Births became mandatory right about the time
(1885) your Caroline was born-----but enforcement was nil, and if the
child was born by a midwife instead of in a hospital, there is a good
chance that the birth was just never reported......

Birth registrations did not really get strict enforcement until the
early 20th Century......

Good Luck!

Jim Garrity

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