Dossier for the Marcel family, Bourgeois de Lausanne

Photographed October, 2009 at the Archives de la Ville de Lausanne

In 1951, Genevieve Marcell Davis, with her husband Manvel H. Davis and their three sons, passed through Lausanne on a family vacation. Mrs. Davis stopped at the city archives and talked to the archivist, Louis Grivel. They later exchanged letters, with the result that Mrs. Davis was able to discover the Swiss ancestry of her Marcell ancestors. Her notes were transcribed by Annabel Wishart Lane, resulting in a typescript that is now on microfilm #0194130 at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City (The pioneering ancestors of Genevieve Marcell Davis, being a genealogical study of the Marcell, Burchfield, Chancellor, O'Neal, and Utley families). The typescript contains an awkward translation of material that was forwarded in French by M. Grivel, but we were not able to locate the original correspondence.

Thanks to our colleague Catherine Minck-Brandt, we have now recovered some of the correspondence. Catherine discovered a dossier concerning the Marcel family at the Archives de la Ville de Lausanne and photographed the contents. There are several references to members of the family who came to the United States, and a great deal of otherwise unpublished information about family members, especially in the 19th Century. We prepared an inventory of the individual items in the dossier, which serves as a guide to the images of each item:

  • Inventory of the contents of the dossier
  • Jacket of the dossier, detail
  • Item 1, detail 1, detail 2
  • Item 2
  • Item 3
  • Item 4
  • Item 5: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4
  • Item 6: page 1, page 2
  • Item 7: page 1, page 2
  • Item 8: page 1, page 2
  • Item 9: page 1, page 2
  • Item 10
  • Item 11
  • Item 12: page 1, page 2
  • Item 13: page 1, page 2
  • Item 14: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 15: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 16: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 17: page 1, page 2
  • Item 18: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 19: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 20: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 21: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 22: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 23: page 1, page 2
  • Item 24: page 1, page 2
  • Item 25
  • Item 26
  • Item 27: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 28: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, page 5, page 6, page 7, page 8, page 9
  • Item 29
  • Item 30
  • Item 31: page 1, page 2
  • Item 32: page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4
  • Item 33
  • Item 34
  • Item 35
  • Item 36: page 1, page 2, page 3
  • Item 37
  • Item 38
  • Item 39: page 1, page 2
  • Item 40
  • Item 41: page 1, page 2

    • —John W. McCoy.

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