Maria Gertrud’s baptismal sponsors were Matthias Kraemer and Maria Gertrud Lauxen, both single persons from Landkern. Matthias Kraemer was either the son of Conrad Kraemer and Lucie Gilles who was born in 1763 or the son of Anton Kraemer and Margaretha (Schuster?) who was born in 1742. Maria Gertrud Lauxen was the sister of Sophie Lauxen, born in 1764 in Landkern.