Baptism of
Désiré Francoise Virginie Fournier
In the year 1797 on the fifth day of the month of November, I, the undersigned, baptized Désire´ Francoise Virginie, born in Port au Prince [Haiti] on the seventeenth day of October 1793, the legitimate daughter of Francois Fournier and Marie Francoise Clementine Sollée Dame Fournier. habit¹
The godfather Louis Malingre, the godmother Marguerite Désiré Sollee Dame Malingre, sister of the mother.
The wtinesses: Alexandre Francois Bretton Deschapelles, Pierre Provenchere, and others who have signed with us.
Signers:
Sollee veuve [widow] Fournier Sollée Malingre
Malingre P. Provenchere
A. Bretton Deschapelles
Bauduy Hamon
Elalie Bretton Deschapelles
Fortunée Bretton Deschapelles
Bauduy Bretton Deschapelles
Bretton Deschapelles Bauduy
J. Keating
¹ It would seem that habit is an abbreviation for inhabitant or resident since the child was born in Haiti.
