Unehlich oder Jungfrau
Eine Frage fuer meine Deutsche Freunden:
What is the difference between a record that describes a birth as unehlich and another that shows the mother as a Jungfrau?
I have seen many unehlich records in the St. Petersburg database but only one where the Jungfrau term is used several times.
Carl Otto and "Jungfrau" Ernestine Hoeppner have a child in 1842.
In 1845 they have another child but there is no reference to either term.
In 1864 they have a third child where Ernestine is again shown as a Jungfrau. (If anyone looks this up, the extraction shows two children, Martin and Jacob born that year but the original shows this is only one child, Martin Jacob.)
The couple finally gets married in 1873.
Does anyone have any ideas about why this situation might have happened? Is there a reason for the Pastor to use Jungfrau in a certain context rather than unehlich?
Jerry Frank