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Several years ago I did some work on a friend's family history here in New Zealand.
As with many settlers of European descent, his family lines traced back to Scotland, Ireland and England, with several of them in Devon and Cornwall.
One Cornish family were quite well off and had a very nice house. The house is still owned by a descendant of the family, and does bed and breakfast, so I was able to see on their website that there  were various large oil paintings of the family members hanging on the walls, many of them from the late 1700s. Having contacted the nice owners there, who were very interested to hear there were descendants in New Zealand, they sent me good photographs of my friend's ancestors, which I passed on to them.

Out of the blue this week I had a surprise email from the people at the house, to say that 2 paintings had come up for sale in an auction house in the town, and the auction was that day!
Luckily England is 13 hours behind New Zealand at the moment, so I contacted my friend right away with a link to the auction house.
The auction would have started at 9pm NZ time.
At 6am, (I was not awake, but saw the message later), my friend texted me to say they were now the proud owner of the paintings of his husband and wife Georgian ancestors.
That's pretty exciting stuff, especially in New Zealand where European history doesn't start until well into the 1800s.

I love it when all the stars align to create a happy ending! 

I found this purely by accident when looking for a marriage on one of the Rodiere notary films . (Lovergne. 12J 1-201. 1627-1631. PAge 6/22)

Am I correct in thinking this says Charles D'aire 'the younger'?
If so, it would seem his father was also a Charles D'aire - so the next generation found.
(The Anne Chevalier in this piece died not long after this, and Charles D'aire remarried Jeanne Senlecque - for anyone following these French lines.)

I'd appreciate some help with the few missing/unclear words.
Google says 'foraines' are fairgrounds?
Does anyone know what the money would have been in 1629?

9 Juin 1629

Charles D’aire le jeune lab et Anne Chevalier sa f(emm)e d(emeuran)t
en la maison + ferme d’hatchen? s’obligent de 64  17  3
de rente envers damoiselle Magd(elai)ne Le coes? V(euv)e de feu h.h.
 Emmanuel Cardon vivant eschev(in) et recepueur? des [      ]
foraines et domanieres en lad(it) v(ille),


Merci beaucoup

Two baptisms here of sisters at Montreuil sur Mer.

The writing is terrible!
I can’t find them in the Montreuil listings - perhaps the transcribers couldn’t decipher them.
I found them through a tree on Geneanet, where somebody has managed to find them in the register.

There are 3 baptisms on each clip.
The ones I’m interested in are the middle baptism on each one.
I’ve left the others for helping decipher letters etc.

This is who they are for:

Clip 1.
Marie Berquen, daughter of Christian Berquen and Jeanne Helbert.

Clip 2
Martine Berquen, daughter of Christian Berquen and Jeanne Helbert.

On the marriage of Marie’s daughter Catherine (Duvivier) in 1639, it states her grandmother was Jeanne Helbert.
It’s odd though, as Marie Berquen married Pierre Duvivier about 1611. (No marriage found).
The first baptism of their many children is that of Anne in 1612, where the mother is stated to be Marie Berquen.
If Marie Berquen was baptised as a baby in 1599, this would only make her 13 years old?
It doesn’t give any clue in the baptism entry does it?
It’s a very unusual name in the Montreuil registers, so I don’t think there’s another Marie Berquen who would have been married to the same man,

https://archivesenligne.pasdecalais.fr/v2/ark:/64297/049b88f511b23574ca6e8b40354d8f1e

Many thanks

I’d be grateful for some help with a few queries in this marriage contract. I don’t need it fully transcribed or translated thanks.

It’s Péronne Sanlecque I’m interested in.

She is the daughter of Philippe, (given as ‘Ph’ here), and Michelle Fournel.
Does she have 2 brothers both called Pierre?

‘ass de P(ie)re Sanlecque, l’ainé; de P(ie)re le jeune, ses frères’.

I think I’m correct in saying ‘l’ainé’ is the eldest, and ‘le jeune’ is the young(er).

There also 2 ‘Jeanne Sanlecques’.
One married to Charles D’aire, They were married in 1637 - I have their contract,
Her father was Philippe.
The other Jeanne Sanlecque is married to Guillaume Hesdoul, ‘bailly de la ? de Clenleu’. She is Péronne’s aunt, so the sister of Philippe.
What does the ‘h.h’ before his name stand for?
In Charles D’aire’s contract, Guillaune Hesdoul is mentioned as “bailli en la
justice patrimonialle dud(it) Clenleu”.

As ever, many thanks for any insights.