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MARRIAGE RECORD
of
JEAN BAPTISTE CARCO AND ^SLAGIE MORAN (Juan Bautista Kaxcoux and Pblr^ia Morin)
5	May 1801
as recorded in
THE CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Mobile, Alabama
Decipherment*-translation i
11	The fifth day of May of the year eighteen hundred and one I Don Juan Francisco Vangsoia, parish curate of the church of our Lady of the Immaoulate Conception of Mobile, being on a visit to the coast of Beloxi, at the chapel vhlch vas established there, by virtue of the dispensation of relationship in the third degree, which waiver by the Sr. D. D. Don Luis de Penalver y Cardenas, most worthy bishop of this diocese of Louisiana and the F lor Idas, made the twenty-ninth, of April just passed, having seen also the dispensation of admonishments with the same date, there having
occurred no other canonical impediment ___________, preceded by the
mutually given consent of the contracting parties, disposition by word of those present, veiled and solemnly gave the Nuptial bless-ing at the Mass, to Juan Bautista Karcoux. a native of this Parish, the son of majority age and legitimate of of the deceased Nicolas Karcaux and Catherine Ladner, on the one hand, and Pelagia Morin, the daughter of minority age and legitimate of Joseph Morin and Louise Ladner, on the other hand, in the presence of and with the consent of Jacques Ladner, maternal uncle and distant relative of the groom (and) with the consent of the relatives of the bride, the which por notarla (?) esesivia (?) was told to me by word on Cat Island the 24th day of April just passed, the witnesses***"
Note that the priest, "Don Juan Franco Vangeois, Parish Curate", is Spanish* The marriage is accordingly recorded in the Spanish language* At the time of this marriage, the Mississippi Gulf Coast was nominally under the Spanish Dominion*
This' record donated by Gloria Smith Moran of Pass Christian, Mississippi* Translation by John A* "Jack" Belsom of New Orleans, Louisiana*