ROLLAND FAMILY

Attractively penned Copy, in French, of the registration of the birth of a son, André Felix Albert, born the day before on 4th September 1818, to Adrien Rolland, "ex-cavalry officer, aged about 26 years, living in the commune of St Victor des Oules", and his wife Jenny Elionore Appollonie Pujolas de Licon, at the Campagne de Licon, in the commune of St Quentin [de la Poterie, both villages in the canton of Uzès, Gard], witnessed by Pierre Guilhaumier and Clément Adrien Graffand, local householders, before mayor François de Carrière, this copy prepared at Paris by notary Barbier Sainte Marie (from an official copy dated Uzès, 5th June1821), fee 30 francs, with a footnote by Adrien that this deed was lodged by his uncle, Baron Rolland, 2 sides 11¾" x 8¼", 30th June

Jean André Louis ROLLAND (1764-1849) was created Baron Rolland de Villarceaux, Baron de l'Empire, by Napoleon on 15 August 1809 after Wagram. He dropped the 'de Villarceaux' after the property was sold. He was Prefect of the Department of the Gard, 1810-1815, retaining his post through the first restoration, the hundred days, and the beginning of the second.

Item Date:  1831

Stock No:  54224      £145

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