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The Paternity of Joseph in Groban

Victoria had previously married Karl Gabriel in April of 1914. In May of 1915 she had been sentenced to one month prison service for an incestuous relationship with her father Andreas. Her sister Sophia was born two years later but died aged two years old. The paternity of Joseph is a complicated knot and was the subject of much talk in Groban. Victoria claimed a local man from a neighbouring farm, Lawrence Schlittenbauer was the father of Joseph who she had previously had a short relationship with in 1918. She had supposedly been forbidden from marrying him by her father Andreas who locks her in the wardrobe when he came to ask for marriage. This suggests that the group of family were hoping to buy Lawrence's

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