Birth Certificate of Johnston, Walter Javes 09-22-1864 Submitted by Tami Johnston June 2004 Source: Orleans Birth Records ************************************************* 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 second of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty four and the eighty ninth of the Independence of the United States of America, before me, F.M.CROZAT, duly commissioned and sworn, Recorder of Births and Deaths, in and for the Parish and City of Orleans personally appeared: Mr. Theodore Bigot a native of New Orleans residing on the city of Jefferson, who by these presents declares that on the thirty first of December eighteen hundred and sixty three (31st December 1863) at three o’clock a.m. was born in this city a male child named WALTER JAVES JOHNSTON issue of the lawful marriage of A.H. Johnston with Miss Magdaleine Sherwood both natives of Louisiana. Thus Done, at New Orleans in the presence of the aforesaid Theodore Bigot as also in that of Messrs. Paul E. Crozat and A.H. Laffananderce(?) 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.