My attempt at translating the Marriage Certificaate of Jean George SCHWARTZTRUB and Jeanne BEUCLER. Such certificates tend to be very wordy with little punctuation!
On the third day of the month of Messidor, year thirteen of the French Republic* at 11 am.
Marriage Certificate of Jean George Schwartztrub, labourer, twenty-three years, nine months and nineteen days old, born in Montbéliard, Haut-Rhin# Département on the third of September seveteen hundred and eighty-one, son of Joseph Schwartztrub, labourer dwelling in said Montbéliard and of Susanne Bruot, the father living and the mother deceased
And Jeanne Beucler dwelling in Montbéliard, thirty-six years two months and seventeen days old, born in Audincourt on the fifth of April seventeen hundred and sixty-nine, daughter of Jean Beucler, farmer in said Audincourt and of Elizabeth Lecureux, the father deceased and the mother living.
The preliminary certificates are taken from the publication of the Banns made in Audincourt on Sundays, the thirteenth and twentieth Prairial § at midday with no objections and the birth certificates of the spouses of the third September seventeen hundred and eighty-one, and the fifth of April seventeen hundred and sixty-nine, all of the certificates were read by me, Registrar in accordance with the laws of the 20 and 24 Ventôse Year XI ° as well as article VI on marriage certificates containing the respective rights and duties of the spouses.
The present said spouses avowed to take in marriage
On the one hand Jeanne Beucler
And on the other, Jean George Schwartztrub.
In the presence of Nicolas Frédéric Reess, cobbler », twenty-nine years old, of Jean George Marconnet, carpenter, fifty-six years old, of Charles Marconnet, cobbler », twenty-nine years old and of David Valz, labourer all dwelling in Montbéliard, friends of the husband and wife.
After which I Charles Frédéric Surleau, mayor of the town of Montbéliard carrying out my duties as as Registrar pronounced, in the name of the law, the two spouses as joined in marriage, and the said witnesses signed with me, with the exception of the two spouses who could not sign being illiterate following their declarations.
*22 June 1805
#Upper Rhine
§2 & 9 June
°11 & 15 March 1803
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