SOMME (80) / Family archives of Albert DAUPHIN (Amiens 1827 - Lot 238

SOMME (80) / Family archives of Albert DAUPHIN (Amiens 1827 - Argoeuves 1898, lawyer and President of the Amiens Bar, First President of the Amiens Court of Appeal, Mayor of Amiens from 1868 to 1873, Prefect of the Somme in 1871, then General Councillor of Amiens, President of the Somme General Council, briefly Deputy of the Somme but Senator for 12 years, also Minister of Finance for 6 months in 1887, a street in Amiens bears his name): these papers concern the Caumartin and Maressal families on his mother's side, and de Sachy on his father's / Some 18th-century documents (8) refer to Jean Sachy, Seigneur d'Omécourt (his father was the first Alderman of Amiens), whose confirmation of nobility is recorded on parchment in Amiens in 1698 (extract from the registers), as well as the Bultel and Lepaige families (inventory dated October 3, 1758, following the death of Antoine Lepaige, bourgeois of Amiens, former police commissioner, who had died a few days earlier, on Sept. 28, in Amiens at the Maison des Pères de l'Observatoire, where he had retired, and from which we have his daughter's renunciation of the estate - Most of these archives belong to the 1823 estate of Jean François Philibert Maressal (Albert Dauphin's maternal great-grandfather), a large landowner in the Amiens region, including his will (period copy), various deeds of succession (copies), important farm accounts (10 large notebooks), 3 large account books from 1820 for his house (with receipts and letters pinned to the wall) and for miscellaneous holdings (logging), followed by numerous deeds of division between the heirs - a large file concerning the Maressal estate concerns Grévin Aîné, an important figure in Amiens (author of the Amiens town plan and street numbering), with over 20 autograph letters signed, relating to the Domaine de Bertaucourt (a former abbey that was purchased as a native property), which Grévin had to survey and appraise - it also deals with the estate of Jean-Henri Dauphin, Albert's father - a fine and coherent set of documents.