Birth Certificate of: Farrell, Joseph 08-06-1897 Submitted by: Julie Campbell Hernandez, 26 September 2005 Source: La State Archives ************************************************* 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 twelfth of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Nine and the One Hundred and 23 of the independence of the United States of America, before me Quitman Kohnke, M. D., Chairman, Board of Health and Ex-Officio Recorder of Births, Deaths and Marriages, in and for the Parish and City of New Orleans, personally appeared THOMAS SWORDS, native of this city, residing at No. 2117 Perdido St., who hereby declares that on the sixth of August 1897 (6 August 1897) at the aforesaid residence was born a male child, named JOSEPH FARRELL (white) lawful issue of JOHN FARRELL a native of this city, aged 35 years, occupation laborer, and MARY SWORDS, a native of this city, aged 34 years. Thus done at New Orleans, in the presence of the aforesaid T. Swords, as also in that of Messrs. P. H. Lanauze and Jos. T. O’Dowd, both of this City witnesses, by me requested so to be, who have hereunto set their hands together with me, after due reading hereof, the day, month and year first above written. Signed: Thomas Swords (his mark) P. Henry Lanauze Jos. T. O’Dowd.