Birth Certificate of: Demarest, Marie Octavie 12-22-1882 Submitted by: Helen Kendrick May 2001 Source: Louisiana State Archives v79 p800 ************************************************* Submitted to the LAGenWeb Archives ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http:/www.usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Be it Remembered, That on this day, to-wit: the Twenty fourth of January in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Three [24 January 1883], ... before me, Joseph Jones, M. D., President Board of Health and Ex-Officio Recorder of Births, Deaths and Marriages, in and for the Parish and City of New Orleans, personally appeared: Adolphe Demarest, a native of this city, residing at No. 122 Marigny Street in this city, who hereby declares, that on the twenty second day of December last year (22 Dec. 1882) at his aforesaid residence was born a female child, named Marie Octavie Demarest (white) lawful issue of Deponent, a native of this city aged 50 years, occupation Clerk, and Henriette Depoit [sic] a native of this city, aed 43 years. Thus done at New Orleans, in the presence of the aforesaid A. Demarest ... Signed by Adolphe Demarest.