I found this at my first visit to the New York City Archives on Chambers St., March 2006. I am no longer sure what borough the record was filed in. I interpret the writing as follows. Alvina Clara Römhild, Female, born October 7, 1866. She was born at home on 101 First St. Her parents were Mary Francisca Haukauf. I have trouble with the place of her mothers birth. I thought first it was Breslau/ ?Prussia. Her father was Gustav Adam Römhild, a ?Turner. (This is the only place so far that a middle name of Adam is mentioned.) I cannot yet identify the father's place of birth. Schwatsburg something, Germany. It seems like the writer tried to sound out something.
Until a visit to the Lutheran Cemetery in Feb 2008, I had vertually no other information about other members of the Roemhild family. I have not been able to find a death certificate for a mother or father of Alvina in NYC. I did find a death certificate for a (?half) brother of Alvina. I have seen the same spelling for Hackauf elsewhere. I originally thought the spelling of the family name above was Roemhild with an "e" drawn in as a correction, but I now believe it is a German spelling of Römhild. The family later seemed to adopt an anglicized version of Roemhild.