Frances Mary Paton HARRIS

[Mary from Italy]

The 5th day of September One thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight at 10 a.m. Before me, Victor Boutillier, clerk at Saint-Cloud Town Hall, holding? delegated power for Registry Office matters, there appeared Mr Alexandre Roger, coachman, aged 35 years, resident at Avenue Magenta house? 7, Saint-Cloud, who presented to me a female child born on the 2nd September last, at 5 p.m., daughter of Franck Harris, journalist, aged 42 years, ... resident at Avenue Magenta house? 7, Saint-Cloud, and of May Congdon, his wife, no occupation, aged 25 years, ... to which said child he gave the forenames May, Paten.

[Mary from Italy]

I have to go out now; the rest is more difficult to decipher, but I'll have a go at it later if nobody else does.

I see Franck and May were said to be married.

[Merry]

Also in Kensington in 1911 is Frances PATON b c1899 St Cloud France who is a ward of Rosamond FAWCETT b c1863 Dublin. Is this Frances Mary Paton HARRIS??

Of passing interest... when Rosamond Mary Fawcett died in 1944 one of her executors was Frances Mary Hankey, wife of the Reverend Patrick Hankey clerk.

[KiwiChris]

Wow, thanks everyone, she was exactly who I thought she was.

I am having some fun with the clergy wives as I go through the data base trying to tie up the loose ends before we make it available on line.

It is interesting that there are several with rather colourful backgrounds! I guess that if I did not easily identify them on the initial work up then there is a reason for that. I wonder how much they all knew at the time.

[KiwiChris]

Looking through the newspapers, May CONGDON is mentioned between 1899 and 1929, so she was acting for quite a long time. They all seem to be reviews of plays and I cannot find anything about the person.