1891 Death Certificate and 1770 Notarial Contract (Transfer of Annuity) - Red, White and Blue Ribbon
1891 Death Certificate and 1770 Notarial Contract (Transfer of Annuity) - Red, White and Blue Ribbon
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Red, White, and Blue Ribbon (Thin Text) The April 27, 1891 Death Certificate (Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France) - Certified Extract from Civil Registers
Person: François Bonvoisin (son of François Denis Bonvoisin & Marie Butel)
Profession: Chief postal & telegraph clerk
Other Names Mentioned: Alexandre Desfagni, laborer (witness), François Jeannin, laborer (witness), Henry Charles Marchand, acting mayor
English Translation:
Department of the Meuse
Town Hall of Bar-le-Duc
Extract from the register of death acts for the year 1891
In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the twenty-seventh of April at ten-thirty in the morning, before us Henry Charles Marchand, assistant to the mayor of the town of Bar-le-Duc, acting as civil registrar, appeared:
Alexandre Desfagni, laborer, age forty, and François Jeannin, laborer, age fifty, both residents of this town, not relatives of the deceased.
They declared that today at five o’clock in the morning François Bonvoisin, chief clerk of the posts and telegraphs, age forty-two, born in Étaples (Pas-de-Calais), residing in Bar-le-Duc at 3 Place de la Couronne, son of the late François Denis Bonvoisin and of Marie Butel, his wife, died at his home, and they attest to this.
After reading and reviewing, the witnesses signed.
Certified as a true extract,
The Mayor
(signature)
Further legalization of the signature by the civil court:
(signature dated 29 May 1891)
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The 1770 Legal Document (Transport de Rente) - Heavily Soiled (PRE-REVOLUTION)
A French 18th-century notarial contract titled:
TRANSPORT DE RENTE
(Transfer of a perpetual annuity / income-producing property)
Date: 22 January 1770
Place: Likely Paris or Compiègne (you have seals from both)
Seal: “Generalité de Paris” tax stamp (very collectible)
Material: Laid paper or possibly thin parchment
Script: 18th-century French notarial hand
Condition: Heavy staining but text remains legible
Partial Translation (first section, cleanest part)
22 January 1770
To all those who shall see these present letters:
Before Louis Boucherat, Senior Notary of the Châtelet of Paris,
appeared Jean-Baptiste Darveau, master tailor, living in Belleville,
and his wife Marie Jeanne, acting with the authorization of her husband,
who together sell, transfer, and transport
to Nicolas François d’Anglois, merchant living in Compiègne,
a perpetual annuity formerly belonging to the late François Boudon,
payable annually… (the amount appears lower on the page)
Red, White, and Blue Ribbon (Thin Text) The April 27, 1891 Death Certificate (Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, France) - Certified Extract from Civil Registers
Person: François Bonvoisin (son of François Denis Bonvoisin & Marie Butel)
Profession: Chief postal & telegraph clerk
Other Names Mentioned: Alexandre Desfagni, laborer (witness), François Jeannin, laborer (witness), Henry Charles Marchand, acting mayor
English Translation:
Department of the Meuse
Town Hall of Bar-le-Duc
Extract from the register of death acts for the year 1891
In the year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, the twenty-seventh of April at ten-thirty in the morning, before us Henry Charles Marchand, assistant to the mayor of the town of Bar-le-Duc, acting as civil registrar, appeared:
Alexandre Desfagni, laborer, age forty, and François Jeannin, laborer, age fifty, both residents of this town, not relatives of the deceased.
They declared that today at five o’clock in the morning François Bonvoisin, chief clerk of the posts and telegraphs, age forty-two, born in Étaples (Pas-de-Calais), residing in Bar-le-Duc at 3 Place de la Couronne, son of the late François Denis Bonvoisin and of Marie Butel, his wife, died at his home, and they attest to this.
After reading and reviewing, the witnesses signed.
Certified as a true extract,
The Mayor
(signature)
Further legalization of the signature by the civil court:
(signature dated 29 May 1891)
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The 1770 Legal Document (Transport de Rente) - Heavily Soiled (PRE-REVOLUTION)
A French 18th-century notarial contract titled:
TRANSPORT DE RENTE
(Transfer of a perpetual annuity / income-producing property)
Date: 22 January 1770
Place: Likely Paris or Compiègne (you have seals from both)
Seal: “Generalité de Paris” tax stamp (very collectible)
Material: Laid paper or possibly thin parchment
Script: 18th-century French notarial hand
Condition: Heavy staining but text remains legible
Partial Translation (first section, cleanest part)
22 January 1770
To all those who shall see these present letters:
Before Louis Boucherat, Senior Notary of the Châtelet of Paris,
appeared Jean-Baptiste Darveau, master tailor, living in Belleville,
and his wife Marie Jeanne, acting with the authorization of her husband,
who together sell, transfer, and transport
to Nicolas François d’Anglois, merchant living in Compiègne,
a perpetual annuity formerly belonging to the late François Boudon,
payable annually… (the amount appears lower on the page)