Louis Augustin CASIMIR alias SAILLENFAITS
- Born: 28 Apr 1814, Notre Dame DE Bliquetuit, Normandy, France 13359
- Married (1): 26 Oct 1835, St Peter, Church St., Liverpool, England 13357
- Married (2): 1 Dec 1853, Parish Of St. Lawrence, Sydney, Nsw, Australia 13358
- Died: 18 Oct 1873, Nicholson St., Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia 13360
 Cause of his death was asthma.
General Notes:
Relationship to compiler: great, great grandfather
Research Notes:
Born Louis Augustin Casimir SAILLENFAITS.
Married first in England under the surname CASIMIR (to Mary Shepherd),
though the two known children of this marriage retained the surname
SAILLENFAITS. Louis dropped the French ancestral name permanently
on arriving in Australia and marrying Mary Ann Holmes, using his 3rd
given name as his surname..
There is at least a decade of Louis's life unaccounted for-between
the christening of his and Mary Shepherd's 2nd child in 1839 and his
2nd marriage. There is a family tradition that Louis did not get on
at all well with his father; the general tradition speaks of a religious
rift occurring: Louis's French antecedents were Roman Catholic, and
Louis's first marriage was contracted in the Church of England, insofar
as that means anything.
Birth-Certificate of Louis Augustin Casimir Saillenfaits
L'an mille huit cent quatorze, le vingt-huit avril à six heures
d'après-midi […] devant nous, Jean Baptiste Pierre Philippe Mabon,
adjoint au Maire de la commune de Notre Dame de Bliquetuit, canton
de Caudebec, arrondissement de Zetol, département de la Seine inférieure,
officier public de l'état civil par délégation ad hoc, est comparu
Étienne Augustin Saillenfaits, âgé de vingt-six ans, profession de
charpentier de navires, domicilié en cette commune, lequel nous a
présenté un enfant du sexe masculin, né de ce jour à quatre heures
du matin de lui déclarant et de Marie Barbe Sainsaulieu son épouse
en légitime mariage célébrê en cette commune le treize septembre mille
huit cent neuf, et auquel Il a declaré vouloir donner les prénoms
de Louis Casimir. Les dites déclaration et présentation faites en
la présence de Clement Bastille, âgé de vingt-huit ans, un cultivateur,
domicilié en cette commune, et de Pierre Louis Durand, aussi un cultivateur,
âgé de cinquante-six ans, domicilié en cette commune, et tout […]
Signé […] […] le présent Acte de Naissance, aprés que […] […] été
faite.
Translation (provided by David Flack)
In the year 1814, 28 April at 6.00pm … before us, Jean Baptiste
Pierre Philippe Mabon, deputy mayor of the commune of Notre Dame de
Bliquetuit, canton of Caudebec, district of Zetol, subdivision of
the Lower Seine, deputy registrar ad hoc, has appeared Étienne Augustin
Saillenfaits, aged twenty-six years, occupation shipwright, domiciled
in this commune, who has presented to us a child of male sex born
this day at 4.00am, by him registering and by Marie Barbe Sainsaulieu
his wife by lawful marriage celebrated in this commune 13 September
1809, and to whom he has declared a wish to give the first names of
Louis Casimir. The said declaration and presentation made in the presence
of Clement Bastille, aged 28 years, farmer, domiciled in the commune
of Guerbaville, and Pierre Louis Durand, also a farmer, aged 56 years,
domiciled in this commune, and all [those present?]…
Signed … the present birth certificate, after …
(Source: Parish Register for Notre Dame de Bliquetuit, copies of entries
provided by Bernard Battut, Cercle Genealogique Rouen Seine-Maritime.)
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Events:
1. Occupation; Before 1853, England/France. Sailor and mariner
2. Arrival in Australia; 4 Oct 1853, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Arrived per "Star of the East"
3. Occupation; After 1853. Shepherd, labourer, carpenter
Marriage Information:
Louis married Mary SHEPHERD, daughter of William SHEPHERD and Unknown, on 26 Oct 1835 in St Peter, Church St., Liverpool, England 13357. (Mary SHEPHERD was born about 1814 and died on an unknown date.)
Marriage Notes:
Witnesses to the marriage of Louis Casimir and Mary Shepherd were Thomas Dourd and Jane Denney (her X mark).
A reference to the IGI for children shows two of them registered under Louis's original French surname SAILLENFAITS (orthographic variations: Saillanfaits, Saillanfait, Saillenfest).
Marriage Information:
Louis also married Mary Ann HOLMES, daughter of William HOLMES and Margaret Ann OVERTON, on 1 Dec 1853 in Parish Of St. Lawrence, Sydney, Nsw, Australia 13358. (Mary Ann HOLMES was born on 25 Oct 1829 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England 13362, christened on 7 Jan 1830 in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England 13363 and died on 23 Dec 1899 in Nicholson St., Mudgee, N.S.W., Australia 13364.) The cause of her death was exhaustion.
Marriage Notes:
Marriage conducted in the presence of G.W. HUGHES of Castlereagh St., Sydney, and Emily PURSEY of College St., Sydney.
Louis CASIMIR is indicated to be a batchelor, but only in the sense that Mary HOLMES was his first wife in Australia; otherwise, he was not, given his first marriage in England to Mary SHEPHERD. 13358
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