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  1. l_raty

    Some additional etymological information – Part VIII

    The daughter's marriage record makes him an architect ("Tocher des Architekts Paul [etc.]"; as already mentioned in post #30 and in the two scans attached by Paul to post #31) in 1914; in the son's marriage record, he was a pensioner ("Sohn des Pensionärs Paul [etc.]") in 1920 (residing in...
  2. l_raty

    Some additional etymological information – Part VIII

    I think quite likely 9 Feb 1837 in Paris (11th Arrondissement) here, 47/51. Her residence in 1826 was in Paris according to the text that follows the transcription of Edward's will. ("APPEARED personally Mary Ann Dillon of Paris but formerly of St Mary Axe in the parish of St Andrew under Shaft...
  3. l_raty

    Some additional etymological information – Part VIII

    Petit published this in 1839. (See the footnote on the first page, which states he is a young doctor and has been sent to Abyssinia; this publication is referenced as his ("notre Mémoire spécial"), in the "Notes médicales du docteur A. Petit", in the second volume of Voyage en Abyssinie, exécuté...
  4. l_raty

    Some additional etymological information – Part VIII

    Note that Achille Richard's dedication makes them both doctors: = "To the memory of Richard Quartin Dillon and Antoine Petit doctors from the Parisian faculty of medicine". That they were doctors of medicine is also indicated on the title pages of the various volumes of Voyage en Abyssinie...
  5. l_raty

    Some additional etymological information – Part VIII

    Lefebvre 1845: This was directly after they had left Motta. Either the above text is a complete lie, or the river was definitely the Blue Nile, and there were no boats of any kind; things happened out of Lefebvre's sight; Petit apparently attempted to swim across the river, being helped by two...
  6. l_raty

    Some additional etymological information – Part VIII

    There is an actual first-hand account by Théophile Lefebvre in this. They did not cross at Bahir Dar, but somewhere directly close to Mota. (The itinerary described by Lefebvre was Mota (Motta) - Chimé-Guiorguis (Shime) - Madera Mariam (Mahdere Mariam) - Oueréta (Wereta) - Ifague (Yifag) -...
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