- I EDWIN COURTNEY WALKER of the City of London Notary Public duly admitted and sworn DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the Typewritten Paper hereunto annexed marked "A" contains a true and faithful translation from the French languge of the original document hereunto also annexed marked "B" whereof it purports to contain a translation.
In WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at LONDON this twenty fourth day of February one thousand nine hundred and ten.
(signed)
Quvol vide
E. Courtney Walker, Not. Pub.
(A)
(Translated from the French Language)
(French stamp)
997
CAMPBELL
& LAWRENCE
PREFECTURE of the DEPARTMENT OF THE SEINE
EXTRACT from the Minutes of Acts of Marriage of the 16th Arrondissement of Paris
YEAR 1899
The year one thousand eight hundred and ninety nine on the twenty seventy of November, at four o'clock in the afternoon, Act of Marriage of DOUGLAS WALTER CAMPBELL, born in London on the sixth of March one thousand eight hundred and seventy seven, proprietor, domiciled in Paris, 4 Rue de Presbourg, son of full age of Walter Campbell and Olivia Rowlandson Milns, husband and wife both deceased. The Bridegroom of English nationality provided with a Certificate of Custome from which it appears that he is qualified to contract marriage without the consent of his ascendants, of the one part; AND of AIMEE MARIE SUSAN THERESA LAFARGE LAWRENCE, born at New York (United States of America) on the third of October one thousand eight hundred and seventy three, without profession, domiciled with her mother in Paris 4 Rue de Presbourg, daughter of full age of John Lawrence, deceased, and of Emily Mary Agnes Lafarge, his widow, without profession; the Bride a Citizen of the United States of America provided with a Certificate of Custome by which it appears that she is qualified to contract marriage without the consent of her ascendants, of the other part. DRAWN UP by us Edgard Berthemet, Deputy Mayor, Officer of the Civil State of the Sixteenth Arrondissement of Paris, who have publicly proceeded, in the Mayoralty, to the celebration of marriage in the following manner: After having read to the parties: 1st Their Acts of Birth: 2nd Certificates of Custome above mentioned: 3rd Acts of Publication made in this Mayoralty on Sundays the twelfth and nineteenth of November instand, without opposition, all the documents before mentioned being duly paraphed and annexed: 4th Chapter Six of the First Book of the Civil Code (Chapter on Marriage) as to the respective rights and duties of the husband and wife - After having questioned the furture husband and wife who to us declared that a Contract of Marriage has been made before the Consul General of the United States in France, We asked them if they wished to take each the other for husband and wife, each of them replied in the affirmative and separately in a loud voice, We pronounced, in the name of the Law that Douglas Walter Campbell and Aimee Marie Susan Theresa Lafarge Lawrence are united in marriage. In the presence of Henry Austin Lee, aged fifty years, Secretary of Embassy, domiciled in Paris, 39 Rue du Faubourg Saint Honore, Neville Dawson, aged twenty one years, Stockbroker, comiciled in London (England), General Horace Porter, Ambassador for the United States in France, domiciled in Paris, 58 Avenue Kleber, Auguste Count de la Barre de Nanteuil, aged sixty two years, proprietor, domiciled at Chateau Rechort (Finistere), Witnesses who have signed with the husband and wife and us after reading. - Signed: Douglas Walter Campbell, Neville Dawson, Henry Austin Lee, Aimee Lawrence, Horace Porter, Comte de la Barre de Nanteuil, E. Berthemet.
Granted by the Registrar of the Civil Tribunal of First Instance of the Department of the Seine.
At the Registry sitting at the Palace of Justice at Parish the twenty second of February one thousand nine hundred and ten.
(Seal of the Registry of the Tribunal of 1st Instance of the Seine Civil State)
Seen by us Mr. Hibon, Judge, for legalization of the signature of Mr. Garcement Registrar in the absence of the President of the Tribunal of First Instance of the Seine.
Paris the 22nd February 1910.
G. Hibon
(Seal of the Tribunal of 1st instance of the Seine) [5]
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- In the High Court of Justice
Probate Divorce & Admiralty Division (Divorce)
To the Right Honourable The President of the said Division
Dated the 14th day of October
The Petition of Aimée Marie Susan Theresa LaFarge Campbell of 41, Avenue d Jena Paris in the Republic of France
Showeth: -
1. That your Petitioner (then Aimée Marie Susan Theresa LaFarge Lawrence - Spinster) was on the 27th of November, 1899, lawfully married to Douglas Walter Campbell at the Mairie of the 16th Arrondisssement Paris in the said Republic of France.
2. That afterher said marriage your Petitioner lived and cohabited with her said husband at Dresden in the Empire of Germany, at Cannes in the said Republic of France, at No. 64, South Audley Street in the County of London and at No. 33 avenue d'Antin, Paris, in the said Republic of France and that your Petitioner and her said husband have had issue of their said marriage one child to wit John or Ian Douglas Campbell who was born on the 18th day of June 1903.
3. That your Petitioner resides at 41 Avenue, d'Iena, Paris in the said Republic of France and that the said Douglas Walter Campbell resides at the Hotel des Etrangers 37, Gerrard Street in the said County of London and is of no occupation and that both your Petitioner and the said Douglas Walter Campbell are domiciled in England.
4. That on the 7th day of January 1909 and on other days between that date and the 4th day of October 1909, the said Douglas Walter Campbell committed adultery with Miss Sybil Job at the Hotel des Etrangers, 37, Gerrard Street in the said County of London.
5. That since the said marriage the said Douglas Walter Campbell has on divers occasions the dates of which are unknown to your Petitioner committed adultery with divers women.
6. That noprevious proceedings in reference to the said marriage have taken place in the Divorce Division of the High Court by or on behalf of either party to the said marriage.
Your Petitioner therefore humbly prays That your Lordship will be pleased to decree that your Petitioner may be judicially separated from the said Douglas Walter Campbell and that she may have the custody of the said John or Ian Dougals Campbell and that your Petitioner may have such further and other relief as to your Lordship may seem meet.
(Signed)
A.M.S.T.L. Campbell [5]
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1873 - 1920 (46 years)
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