IGI lists father as JOANNES GAUTHIER
Source Information:
Batch Number: 7620805
Sheet: 30
Source Call No.: 1058580 Type: Film
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Ancestry File:
Submitter(s):
SHARON DIETHRICH Microfilm: 1512647
808 DIPLOMA CT
VIRGINIA BEACH VA Submission: AF91-000504
USA 23462
Also listed as Antonio for the family sheet in Leo Leiden supplement
Since the first three children are all named Maria Elizabeth, the first two probably died at or shortly after birth
Pedigree Resource File lists birth place as Altenstadt, Bas-Rhin, France
In his last will, he refers to himself as Frantz Chardon Erdlohre, and Leo Leiden claims that Erdlohre was the maiden name of his mother, however in the supplement, his mother is listed as Madeleine Schmitthauer
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1840 Census - PA - Cambria Co - White Twp
John Jourdan
1 M 20-30 1 F 20-30
1 M 70-80 1 F 70-80=========================
Leo Leiden supplement states:French Empire
Congress (assembly) of Military DischargeWe the undersigned, Members of the Administrative Council of the Department of the 95th. Regiment and War Office of this line, certify to have given an honorable discharge, according to the Minister of War, Congress of Military Discharge, to FRANCIS CHARDON, musketeer of the 3rd. Company of the 5th. Battalion of the 95th. Regiment. Native of Alsace, Department of Bas Rhine, age 39 years, height 5 feet and 3 inches, hair and eyebrows chestnut, eyes reddish-brown, forehead reddish-brown (weathered or well tanned), nose aquiline, mouth stern, chin reddish-brown, face or countenance reddish-brown, understood to have registered in the Corps under the No. 1519 -- who has been judged incapable of continuing military service by the Officers of Health by whom this certificate is transcribed from the past to the present.
Made in Colonge the 21st. of September, 1812
The Members of the Administrative Council
Details of Service
-- arrived at Austerlitz
-- Holland the 26th. division, near the frontMilitary Campaigns and Wounds
-- made the campaign of the 10th. with the army of the Rhine 11th., 12th., 13th. musketeers (during the course of the battle)
-- arrived in Holland and Hanover for the campaign with the army
-- found to have been wounded at the Battle of Austerlitz and in the years of 1806 and 18-7, endured well and earned deserved praiseAs seen by us, under the Inspector of the Reviews
Approved by us, and Inspector General
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Copy of the Certificate of Examination
-- By the Officers of Health
The undersigned, Pierre Antoine Pierre, Surgeon Chief of the Civil and Military Hospital of Cologne after having examined the person of FRANCIS CHARDON, musketeer of the 3rd. Company of the 5th. Battalion of the 95th. Regiment and line; son of Geeorge and of Magdelaine Schuitter, born in 1773, in Alsace, Canton of Alstat, Department of Bas Rhin, Height 5 feet and 3 inches, countenance weathered, forehead weathered, eyes reddish-brown, nose aquiline, mouth stern, chin weathered, hair and eyebrows chestnut -- certify that he is attacked during the summer with painfully enlarged joints and is under the disposition and mysterious ways of a hypochondriac and therefore has been judgeed incapable of following the life of a military career.Cologne
Seen and thoroughly exsamined by the Sergeon Chief in the medical hospital, SignedFor copy in agreement with
The Members of the Administrative Council===================================
Last Will and Testament of Frantz Chardon
last of White Township, Cambria County deceased
(Written in German)The 20 October 1840, I the undersigned Frantz Chardon declare hereby my last will as follows.
Firstly -- I give my son John the polace for the sum of two hundrend and forty dollars, say 240 out of which after his Father's and Mother's death he has to pay his relatives Elizabeth and Michael vis. to Elizabeth eighty dollars say 80 and to Michael eighty dollars say 80.
Secondly -- I give also to my son John goods and chattels for the sum of one hundred and thirty five dollars of which he is to pay his above named relatives the sum of ninety dollary say 90 in annual payments the first on the first of April 1841 the second the first of April 1842 the third the first of April 1843 if paid sooner it is well.
Thirdly -- I retain for support the third of what is planted on the place should however the place be neglected then I have the right to arrange it otherwise.
Fourthly -- If I need a horse to ride or the implements to haul anything away I retain the right to do so as usual.
Frantz Chardon
John ChardonWitnesses:
John A. Deatrick
Frederick Baker
Martin YahnerCambria County S.S.
Before me William Kittel Register for the Probate of Wills and Granting Letters of Administration in and for said County personally appeared Frederick Baker and Martin Yahner two of the subscribing witnesses to the annexed Instrument of Writing who being duly sworn to depose an say that they were present and saw and heard Frantz Chardon the testator sign publish pronounce and declare the same as and for his last will and testament and at the time of so doing he was of perfect and sound mind memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge observation and belief and that they subscribe their names as witnesses thereto at the request and in the presence of the said testator.Frederick Baker (in German)
Martin Yahner (in German)Sworn and subscribed this 10" day of Mard A.D. 1857
William Kittell Regr.Registered March 10" 1857 and Letters of Administration Cum Testaments annexo issued to John Chardon.
William Kitell RegisterWill Book Vol. I Page 284
-- Another translation in part --
I on this date 20th October 1840
I underwritten Frantz Chardon Erdlohre hereby my last will as the following::(Erdlohre is the maiden name of the mother of Frantz Chardon)
Secondly -- I divide to my son Johannes horses and harness for the sum of $135.00 from which he is to pay his above mentioned sisters the sum of $90.00.
(Sisters should be brother and sister)
This will was written by the hand of Frantz Chardon.
The phrasing was of an old German person, in Gothic German dialect.
IGI Source Information:
Batch Number: 7934060
Sheet: 02
Source Call No.: 1260631 Type: Film
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Leiden records birth location as: Schweigen Rh-Pfalz, Germany