Did my great grandmother have a child out of wedlock? Well according to this documentation I found on ancestory.com, she did indeed have a daughter out of wedlock.
The document below with a description written by another family member, shows a registry transcribed from church records of the family of Mathaus and Antonie Mauz, my great-great grandparents. This along with some further digging on ancestry.com shows a Josefina Mauz, born August 1886, died April 1887. Mother is Anna Mauz, father not revealed.
Burladingen-Mauz-Family-Register
15 Jun 1957 Document date
Burladingen, Germany
The text in this 1957 document is a transcription of church records found in "Familien Register Des Pfarr Ortes Burladingen". This is the Family Register for Mathäus Mautz and Antonie Müller which documents their parents and children. Included are two grandchildren born out of wedlock. With thanks, from the collection of Kathryn Mauz.
Anna Mauz would later go on to marry Engelbert Mauz in January of 1889 and their first child together would be born in March of 1890.
I don't know how scandalous a child out of wedlock was back in 1886 in Germany in a catholic family, but I suspect that it wasn't received too well just based on how objectionable it was back in 1971 in a catholic family, when I was born to an unwed mother.
Source: ancestry.com
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