I didn't find any child with this name from 1820 to 1834 in Elguishem.

Hello,

In geneanet there's a record for Pancrace Meyer who married Gertrude Freudenreich on 14/06/1820 in Elguishem (Department of Haut-rhin)

https://en.geneanet.org/archives/releves/depgn42827/375?id_acte=375&id_table=42827&legacy_script=/archives/releves/search_etat_civil.php

May be him?

I'm not an expert in history but I think that the concept on nationality was not very developed at that time. There was the french kingdom of course, and the germanic empire, but there were also some cities like Mulhouse and Strasbourg which had a specific status (city and state) so may be indeed yo...

According to the birth certificate, Ignace's father was Xavier (or François Xavier as you mentioned "FX" on the grave) born in Rhinau on 23/09/1804. He was a blacksmith. Mother is Thérèse Sitter born in Sand on 21/09/1801. François Xavier's dad was Joseph Adam, a farmer, his mother was Ann...

I can find in the archives of decades tables that on "9 prairial year 3" (It is the revolutionary calendar which had some specific dates different from the gregorian, it corresponds to 28/05/1795) in Cherbourg there's a Le Laidier Charles François who married Gallis Catherine Marie Anne. M...

well in fact they are in Saint-Lô, not Cherbourg. sorry.

Apparently he was in one of the ships of the Admiral de Ternay. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles-Henri-Louis_d%27Arsac_de_Ternay) You can see here (http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5525402h/f254.item.r=le%20laidier) in this book "les combattants français de la guerre américaine"...

Diedenhofen is Thionville, same city. Between 1870 and 1918 it was German, so not sure if you can have this info from Thionville. In the online archives, you can access to the global list of decades ("tables decennales"): http://www.archives57.com/index.php/recherches/archives-en-ligne#tab...

Hello It's going to be very hard to find anything if you don't have more info. Most of the time we can find information in the online archives in each of the 99 geographical jurisdictions called "departements", so we need to know where he was in france. In military archives usually it's ea...

Hi Hendrik

I live near Chazay so I can stop by at the townhall if needed.
Just provide me with the maximum details plz

rgds

M.