Om Hemecht

Ons Hémecht

Saturday, November 30, 1935

by L. KLIPFFEL,

full member of the National Academy of Metz.

When Louis XIV conquered the Luxembourg region, he attached these territories to the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Metz, which retained it until the Treaty of Ryswick.

Thanks to this circumstance, the archives of the Moselle department preserve, under Code B 1617, a file containing some interesting information for the history of this region.

These documents were used in 1696-1697 for the distribution, against reimbursement, by the parishes, of civil status registers; they are:

1st List of parishes dependent on the Duchy of Luxembourg and County of Chiny where the registers of baptisms, marriages, and burials have been provided for the years 1696 and 1697, the number of households comprising said parishes, and the sums they must pay for the price of said registers, distinguished by deanery and court...

2nd List of parishes that have not provided a certificate of the number of households comprising them...

3rd Certificates from the parish priests of the parishes concerned.

By combining these documents, we have drawn up, by bishopric and deanery, a list of parishes with an indication of the number of households and the name of the priest (as far as we were able to decipher the signatures).

To facilitate research, we have identified the parishes by giving the current commune, canton, and country

These lists and the certificates do not always give the same number of homes. The number indicated by the priest is generally lower than that of the list; we give the priest's number in ().

The signatories of certain certificates felt it necessary to add some information they deemed useful; we reproduce it as is.

We regret the absence of a certain number of certificates that were not provided or were lost