Marie Defranceschi

The only woman of the name yet found in Lorraine, and her own daughter's birth act spells her differently from the record that led here. David brought a French Table des successions et absences naming Marie DEFRANCESKI, widow of Louis Alphonse LABAYE, who died at Bénaménil (Meurthe-et-Moselle) on 4 April 1940. Two censuses and a decennial table later, the couple is documented — under the spelling Defranceschi. The 1910 birth register of Thiébauménil, the commune next to Bénaménil, opens its year with her child (2 E 519/7, image 170; acte n° 1): > «L'an mil neuf cent dix, le trente janvier à onze heures du matin. Pardevant Nous, Nicolas Joseph Roi, Maire et Officier de l'État civil de la commune de Thiébauménil, arrondissement de Lunéville […] a comparu : Louis Alphonse Labaye, âgé de ~~cinquante~~ quarante-un ans, domicilié à Thiébauménil, maçon, lequel nous a déclaré qu'aujourd'hui à huit heures du matin, Marie Defranceschi, âgée de vingt-neuf ans, sans profession, son épouse, est accouchée en son domicile d'un enfant du sexe féminin […] les prénoms de Marthe Louise.» Aged twenty-nine in January 1910, so born about 1880 or 1881. Her husband was a mason, forty-one, born about 1868 — which is exactly the birth year the succession table estimated thirty years later. (doc.) Two daughters, both born at Thiébauménil, from the commune's decennial table (2 E 519/TD 2, images 36–37, a typed table printed 27 November 1995): Henriette Amélie, acte 8 of 11 July 1908, and Marthe Louise, acte 1 of 30 January 1910. A margin note on Marthe's act carries her forward: «Mariée à Bénaménil le 19 mai 1934 avec Ernest Larger» — and the 1936 census of Bénaménil duly lists «Labaye Marthe 1910 Thiébauménil» as the wife of Larger Ernest, peintre, with their daughter Rose, 1927. (doc.) Where Marie came from is still open. The couple did not marry at Thiébauménil: its marriage table for 1903–1912 runs Humbert Jean Charles → Leybach Constant Lucien with no Labaye, and carries no Defranceschi under her own name either. The marriage act — the one record that would give her parents and her birthplace — is in some other commune's register. (inf, for the negative.)