Birth Certificate of: Schwab, Francois Michel 07-04-1843 Submitted by: Glen Carreras February 2004 Source: La State Archives Volume 7 Page 278 ************************************************* 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 eighteenth of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three and the sixty eighth of the Independance of the United States of America, before me Alfred E. Forstall duly commissioned and sworn RECORDER OF BIRTHS AND DEATHS in and for the Parish and City of Orleans, personally appeared Mr. Francis Schwab a native of Albertsweiler canton of Annsweiler, Land-Commissariat of Bergzabern, Pfalz, Bavaria, about thirty three years of age, a blacksmith by profession but presently a Coffee=and BoradinghouseKeeper and domiciliated at the corner of Victory and Enghien streets in the third municipality of this city of New Orleans, who by these presents doth declare that on the fourth day of July this present year at two o'clock A.M. at the Bay St. Louis Hotel over the lake Ponchartrain was born a male child named Francois Michel Schwab from his legitimate wife Catherine Barthel about twenty one years of age and born at Wasslenheim, canton, Pfalzburg, Department of the Meurthe (France). The paternal grandparents of the said child are Peter Schwab and Marianne Hochberg & the maternal grandparents Bartholomacus Arnold Barthel & Anna Maria Drussel. Thus done at New Orleans in the presence of the aforesaid Mr Francois Schwab as also in that of Messrs. Randolph Horndorffer(??) and F. William Guntram 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 (by all)