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From: "Andrea Scott" <>
Subject: RE: Dispensation Frustrations
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:58:32 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200407141633.LAA22538@friedmansun.cs.uiuc.edu>


Afternoon,

Looked further at more records and could not find that he was given the
permission. :-)

AS

-----Original Message-----
From: H George Friedman [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:33 AM
To: ;
Subject: Re: Dispensation Frustrations

Thanks for sharing!

But did the bishop grant the good father's request?

George

>From: "Andrea Scott" <>
>Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:20:19 -0500
>To:
>Subject: Dispensation Frustrations
>
>Hi All
>This just about says it all huh? Thought I would share it. AS
>
>MARRIAGE DISPENSATONS FOR THE CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA:
>1786 - 1865 (page 2 1800 - 1865), Joe Wiegman, compiler March 2002:
>
>1838 Sep 1
>[Of general interest concerning marriages.]
>Dupuy, Father Enn(emond)
>Iberville, (Louisiana)
>to Bishop Anth(ony) Blanc
>New Orleans, L(ouisian)a
>Since he has been at Iberville, the thing that has troubled Dupuy the most
>is the celebration of marriages. He asks Blanc to extend his powers to
>perform marriages in the third degree of consanguinity and with the
>impediment of disparity of cult without writing for a dispensation in each
>case. The Creole families are nearly all related so there is rarely
a
>marriage without impediment. They make great preparations with many
>invitations before notifying him and then if he does not have time to write
>they marry before a judge. In Iberville they rarely receive a reply from
New
>Orleans within two weeks....
>V-4-g A.L.S. (French) 4pp. 4to.


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