Ernestina Sophia Winterstein Specht - Suche nach Aufzeichnungen - Looking for records

[jonahspecht1906]

Hello,

I've been having trouble finding records regarding an ancestor of mine. She was born Ernestina Sophia Winterstein to Andreas Winterstein and Christiana Balzer (supposedly from Cottbus or Berlin) . According to Ernestina's marriage record, she was born August 9, 1815 in Bad Berneck. She had at least 4 illegitimate children, before marrying Johann Heinrich Specht in Selb on June 20, 1858. Her husband Heinrich died March 10, 1897. I can't find any record of Sophia dying before that, and I can't any record of her after that.

I'm searching for records to prove her date of birth, and hopefully date of death. I'd like to know a bit more about her father as well. Any help will be much appreciated. There is a chance she came to the United States and was with her grandchildren near Cincinnati, Ohio, at one point, but that is unsafe.

I will attach her FamilySearch Page. You can find more information connected to her on there.

Thanks!

[Gastonian]

Hello:

There is indeed no baptism for her in Berneck, but there is a baptism for her younger brother Wolfgang, which gives more information on the parents: https://www.archion.de/p/f04f2bdbfe/

Because she had not been baptised in Berneck, a copy of her baptismal certificate had to be provided to the minister before she could be confirmed there. This copy is here: https://www.archion.de/p/f681b93fb3/

According to this copy, Bertha Adelheide Sophia Ernestine had been born 9 August 1815 as the illegitimate child of Johanne Christiane Baltzer and baptised in the church of the "Dorotheenstadt", which then was a district of Berlin. The original baptismal record in this church can be found here: https://www.archion.de/p/ba6e486843/

Regards

--Carl-Henry