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BIRTH: Maria KatharinaToussaint 6 Oct 1813

L'an mil huit Cent treize, le septième Jour du mois d' october à dix heures avant midi, pardevant Guillaume Schmit nommé Commissaire special à tretter de remplir les fonctions de Maire & officier public de l'Etat Civil de le Commune de Bullenge, est comparu Ettienne Toussaint, agé de vingt neuf ans Cultivateur démeurant à Murrenge, lequel m'a présenté un enfant du sexe feminin, né au dit lieu hiyr à Dait heures du soir, de lui declarant & de Marie Catherine Reuter son Epouse & auquel il a déclaré vouloir donner le Prénom de Marie Catherine.

Les dites Declarations & Presentations faites en Présence de Jean Tousten agé de quarante un ans & de Nicolas Girten agé de cinquente huit ans, tous les deux Cultivateurs démeurans à Bullenge, & ont signé après lecture faite.


1813, 7 October at 10 before noon, before me Guillaume Schmit, named special commissioner for completing the functions of mayor and officer for vital records of the community of Bullenge, appeared Ettienne Toussaint, 29, living in Murrenge, who showed me a female infant born at this location
yesterday, at eight in the evening, to him the declarer & Marie Catherine Reuter his wife & to whom he said to want to give the name of Marie Catherine.

The said Declarations and Presentations done in the presence of Jean Tousten, 41, & of Nicolas Girten, 58, both of whom live in Bullenge, and have signed after the reading was done.


[The two highlighted words appear to be either errors on the part of the writer or bygone usage, but both are overwritten. The first, hiyr, means yesterday, and the French word is actually hier. The other word, Dait, should be huit, meaning eight. The translation agrees with what the baptismal record says.]


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