Birth registry of St. Olev’s Church

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Christian Ackermann’s and Anna Martens’s first child, Johan Christoffer, was christened on 26 September 1675 in the superintendent’s house. A notation that only 22 weeks and 3 days had passed since their wedding, which was held on 22 April of that same year, is added to the entry in the birth registry. The remark draws attention to a scandalous circumstance that violated society’s moral requirements, namely that the child was conceived before his parents were married.

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