Person:Sophia Bahk (1)

Her surname is also spelled as Bach/Baak. Villages of Blankenhof and Gevezin are located just northeast of Lapitz. Sophia was confirmed at Lutheran Church, Lapitz, on 15 March 1833 according to registers of town Lapitz (Wrodow), Penzlin, Neubrandenburg, Province Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany; LDS film #069439. This film provided marriage record of Joachim and Sophia and the birth records of their children as researched and abstracted by Norma Meier. Norma Meier and Mary Jo Meier Goodknecht visited the village of Lapitz in 1995. Lapitz is a tiny village of several brick houses and the large manor house. Birth and baptismal record of Sophia Dorothea Christina is found in Evangelical Church Register of Wulkenzin, near Neubrandenburg, Germany; She was born 24 July at 3 p.m. and baptized 29 July 1818, midwife was the widow Gors; sponsors at baptism were Christian Schunmann, dayworker from Gevenzin, Sophia Rehn, dayworker's wife from Gevenzin and Dorothea Baak, dayworker from Penzlin. Her father is shown as the dayworker Johann Baak. Her mother is shown as Elisabeth, born Martens, from Karin. Joachim was confirmed 1831 in Wulkenzin.