Very rough translation of the marriage Certificate – don’t know why the decision was made 8 months after it was noted! The change of matrimonial regime was probably in connection to who was to benefit from any inheritance. Note the use of the royal we for the registrar acting on behalf of the State.
No 291
HUMPHREYS
Wilfrid Harvey
and
DESOUBRIE
Louise Julie
Marie Joseph
Change of matrimonial property
regime. Decision rendered by the
High Court of Lille on the 17th
September 1968.
Noted on 10.1.1968
On the twenty-seventh of May nineteen hundred and thirty, at eleven am, before us appeared openly in the Town Hall: Wilfrid Harvey HUMPHREYS, wool merchant, born in Wimbledon (England) on the fourth of August nineteen hundred and four, twenty-five years old, dwelling in Tourcoing, 46, rue de Guisnes, son of Edward Llewellyn HUMPHREYS, accountant, and of Ellen Maud HARVEY, his spouse, housewife, dwelling in Wimbledon, 20, Manor Gardens, on the one hand. And Louise Julie Marie Joseph DESOUBRIE, unemployed, born in Tourcoing on the fifteenth of November nineteen hundred and five, twenty-four years old, dwelling there at 68, rue Winoc Chocqueel, daughter of Jules Joseph DESOUBRIE, wool merchant, and of Julie Félicie CASTELAIN, his spouse, housewife, dwelling in Tourcoing at 68, rue Winoc Chocqueel, present and consenting, on the other hand. No objections existing. The future husband and wife state that a marriage contract has been received by Georges Debosque, notary in Tourcoing. Wilfrid Harvey HUMPHREYS and Louise Julie Marie Joseph DESOUBRIE declared after each other the wish to take each other as man and wife and in the name of the law, we pronounced them as united in marriage. In the presence of James Dible, British Consul in Lille (Nord), and of Jean Desoubrie, wool merchant in Tourcoing, witnesses of full age, who, once the acte was read, signed with the spouses, the father and mother of the bride, we, Jules Brassart, Knight of the Legion of Honour and of the Order of the Crown of Belgium, Deputy Mayor of Tourcoing, acting Registrar.
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