French Baptism 1637 - mother's name

[Daffern2020]

Hello everyone,

Child is Guillaume Sallaud. I think the fathers name is Bastien Sallaud and then I'm lost on the mother's. I think it's where it kind of looks like 'Saunders Jay', five lines down?

Hope someone can help.

Thanks for reading.

[brigidmac]

I agree with Jay if the name further along is Joshua same first letter
It looks like Saunder but the capital S is unlike the S on Sallaud and other words. Not an F either

[Daffern2020]

I agree with Jay if the name further along is Joshua same first letter
It looks like Saunder but the capital S is unlike the S on Sallaud and other words. Not an F either

Good point about the letter 'S' there's look more like the number 8 when written.

[jayaygee]

"d'Andrée Jay" or rather "d'andree Jay"

[brigidmac]

Do you know the date?
I think the top line may say  au Moi's du juin mil ....
In the month of June a thousand ...

In which case the d of du does look a lot like first letter of name but why are capital letters not used ? I'd expect D, Andrée

[brigidmac]

Maybe la vingtieme jour....the 20th day
And the year ending in sept...7

Looks to me as if the words baptise. And bapteme. Are on same line

L & S very similar

[Daffern2020]

"d'Andrée Jay" or rather "d'andree Jay"

You know what I think that might be it. I remember seeing another entry somewhere else where Bastein Sallaud appears to be the godfather or just present and there was an 'Andre' after him. But I read that as a man's name. I didn't realise that's what the female alternative would look like. Thanks so much.

A quick qurstion: is the d' at the start a part of the name? Would I include it in the tree or is it more of a way to introduce the name?

And to those asking about the date. When I first found it I just put it down as the 20th of June 1637 as well.

[brigidmac]

Yes D' is part of the name like 0' in Irish names

 I can make out a possible six
But it it's hard to make out cent trente as hundred +thirty .
Full date should read mil.six cent trente sept

..was the date given on record reference and does it fit with people you are researching .?

[brigidmac]

But it could also be of
Could the sentence before be something like natural and legitimate son of Bastian Sallaud and of Andree Jay

Fils. Naturelle et legitime...de Bastian Sallaud et. d , Andree Jay
That would explain why not capital D
First name Andree  extra e for feminine then surname
could it actually be RAY  ( my penfriends surname ! )

If they weren't married Bastian would have to legitimise is relationship

It would be useful to see other documents with same format to get idea of phrases used
Very interesting