Owner : Lydia B. Baumann

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Item Name	Bible with Family Register	Image1
Other Owner(s)	Baumann, Joseph D. Hoffman, Elizabeth Hoffman, Menno
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1887 - Late: 1915
Description	A Hoffman family register between the Old and New Testaments of the family's German-language Bible. The Bible is a leather- and cloth-bound book originally with leather and metal clasps. The family register (Familien Register) gives dates of marriages, and birth dates, of Daniel Hoffman and Lidia Bauman and their six children. Underneath each birth date there is corresponding Zodiac sign. There are two death dates of Hoffman children also listed which were added at a later date. The register is written in German script in yellow, red, black, purple and blue. The names given in the text are "Daniel Hoffman und Lidia Bauman m. December 23, 1862; Levi Brubacher und Elizabeth Hoffman m. February 10, 1884; Menno Hoffman und Susanna Eby m. February 27, 1887; Benneval Martin und Unna Hoffman m. December 20, 1898; Daniel Hoffman und Mary Ann Bauman m. October 22, 1901; Noah Weidman und Lidia Hoffman m. October 10, 1905; Daniel Hoffman b. March 5, 1837; Lidia Bauman b. March13, 1841; Menno Hoffman b. October 30, 1863; Elisabeth Hoffman b. September 11, 1865; Rebecca Hoffman b. January 7, 1869; Unna Hoffman b. January 18, 1875; Daniel Hoffman b. October 10, 1877; Lidia Hoffman b. July 5, 1884; Rebecca Hoffman d. March 23, 1893; Lidia Hoffman d. 1915."
Maker\Attribution	Joseph D. Bauman
Provenance	The Bauman family roots were in Berks County, Pennsylvania, but he was born near Waterloo and farmed near St. Jacobs. Several bookplates, family records and pictorial drawings are attributed to Joseph D. Bauman and it appears that most of his work was done past the 1860's.
Collection	Joseph Schneider Haus Museum Contact : 466 Queen St. S. Kitchener 519-742-7752 www.region.waterloo.on.ca
Accession No.	1984.028.194
Curatorial Comments	Joseph D. Bauman's work is similar to that of Abraham Latschaw and Isaac Z. Hunsicker. He retained some elements from both of these early Fraktur artists, but he also copied motifs from printed forms. Bauman produced many drawings of trees and birds for children and grandchildren, with simple texts, as well as many family records which he lettered and embellished with geometric designs.

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