Baptismal register, Marie Josephine Honorine Couvrette, 13 October 1868
Burial register, Marie Josephine Honorine Couvrette, 18 November 1868
I was trying to find the rest of the baptism and burial records for the children of Louis Charles Couvrette and Philomene Chauvin. What I found was at least one more daughter I hadn’t encountered before. And no wonder. She only lived a little over a month.
Another sister died on 26 November 1868. I can’t make out her fourth name, and until the rest of the older daughters are accounted for (burial records or evidence that they lived beyond 1868), I can’t rule out the possibility that the stray isn’t actually just a name variant for one of the older children.
In any event, 1868 was not a good year for the family.
On a slight tangent, these two entries are good illustrations for the indexing method that was common for church registers. The person’s name would be entered in the margin, and usually a large capital B (baptism), M (marriage), or S (sepulture, I believe?). This makes it a little easier to scan the registers for entries. Easier, but not easy.
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