Birth record of Jean-Marie Guillou
- Record
- Birth (civil registration)
- Date
- 14 March 1843
- Place
- Guérande, Loire-Inférieure (today Loire-Atlantique)
- Father
- Pierre Guillou, salt worker (paludier), aged 31
- Mother
- Marie Le Roux, his wife
- Source
- Departmental Archives of Loire-Atlantique, civil registration of Guérande, births 1843, record no. 57, page 15
1. The original record
2. Transcription
L'an mil huit cent quarante trois, le quatorze mars, à dix heures du matin, par devant nous, maire et officier de l'état civil de la commune de Guérande, est comparu Pierre Guillou, paludier, âgé de trente et un ans, demeurant au village de Saillé, lequel nous a présenté un enfant du sexe masculin, né ce jour à cinq heures du matin, de lui déclarant et de Marie Le Roux, son épouse, et auquel il a déclaré vouloir donner les prénoms de Jean Marie…
3. English translation
In the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, on the fourteenth of March, at ten o'clock in the morning, before us, mayor and civil registrar of the town of Guérande, appeared Pierre Guillou, salt worker, aged thirty-one, living in the village of Saillé, who presented to us a male child, born this day at five o'clock in the morning, to himself and to Marie Le Roux, his wife, and to whom he declared he wished to give the given names Jean Marie…
4. Notes
- Paludier: a worker in the salt marshes of Guérande, a traditional trade of the area.
- The record names both parents: the next step is to search for Pierre Guillou's birth, around 1812, and for the parents' marriage.