Birth Certificate of: Masson, Marie & Maria (twins) 9 May 1848 Submitted by: Paula T. Ellis April 2003 Source: Louisiana State Archives Vol. 11, pg. 807 ************************************************* 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 Tenth of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one and the seventy-sixth 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. Edmond Masson, a native of (?) France, a sugar broker, residing on St. Anne Street between St. Claude and (?) Streets in the first Municipality of this city, who by these presents declares that on the ninth day of May eighteen hundred and forty-eight (May 9th, 1848) at five o’clock A. M. in a house situated on Maine Street between Dauphin & Burgundy Streets in the aforesaid Municipality were born two female children named Marie and Maria Masson, issue of the legitimate marriage of deponent with Mrs. Marie Pauline Renault, a native of this city. Thus done at New Orleans in the presence of the aforesaid Mr. Edmond Masson]as also in that of Messrs. [(?) & (?)] 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.