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Michel Courtien

Lived
1807 to after 1871
Place
Sarce, later Tours
Trade
Weaver, later farmer
Married
Marie Tertrain (born 1814)
Parents
Michel Courtien and Anne Fontenay

Born at Sarce at nine in the evening on 4 September 1807 and registered the next day, his father presenting him. The first witness was his uncle Jean Courtien, fifty, a farmer of the village. He reported his own father's death in 1841, giving his age as thirty-three. A weaver at the time of his second marriage and a farmer by 1847. He was a marchand in 1836 and a tisserand by 1839. His first wife, Adelaide Louise Legeay, died at Sarce on 23 April 1838, leaving him a son, Auguste Ferdinand, born in January 1836; thirteen months later, on 10 May 1839, he married Marie Tertrain, twenty-five and born in the same village, a daughter of Michel Tertrain and Marie Desnos. Her grandfather, another Michel Tertrain, was a witness at sixty-two. By 1869 the family had moved south to Tours, where both were still living when their children married. He and Marie had both died by July 1908, which their son Ariste's death act in Paris records.

Children Auguste Ferdinand Courtien, Ariste Jean Baptiste Courtien, Paul Ambroise Courtien, Justine Courtien, Michel Courtien


Sources

The record

Birth register, Sarce, act 15 of 5 September 1807 (Archives de la Sarthe 5Mi 362_4-5, view 122); marriage register, Sarce, act 4, 10 May 1839 (Archives de la Sarthe 5Mi 362_8-9, views 52-53)

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See the act itself: Birth of Michel Courtien

See the act itself: Marriage of Michel Courtien and Marie Tertrain

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