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Communal Records

The communal records are purely civil. Birth, marriage and death registers start in 1870. There are also the reports of the regional council, the law bulletin, the mayor diaries, the cadrastal map.

Private files

The district matters are handled in the following notaries: Vebret, Antignac, Neuvialle, Menet, very few in Saignes. Documentation need therefore to be carried out at each office. Our personal research showed that these miscellanenous files contain nothing interesting on the religious history of the parish.

In the private houses, we found nothing, either parchments or papers. However we were fortunate enough to discover an old register of the justice of Murat la Rabbe but this register contains only procedure notes of a minor interest. We will however have the opportunity to reproduce one of them later on in this monograph. It is registered in the parochial archives.

Origin of the Parish

We do not know when the Gospel was first spread in the parish and its surroundings. There is no trace of the first passage of missionaries. No legend therefore exists on this matter. Before 1790, the parish belonged to the Vignonnet’s, today Antignac, it was thus probably the diocese of Rochefort and the diocese of Clermont.

The parish is currently attached to the district that bears its name. Both include this portion of territory formerly called Muradès.

Etymology of la Monselie

  • Originally it was the name of a land. The Monsel family who played a part in the area could draw their name from this land. This name would be compliant to the current orthography: la Monselie.
  • History teaches us that during the Gallo-Roman period, the military operations were directed in the country by the Coelia race. The latter would have fixed its residence on the hillock of la Monselie, hence the name of Mons Coelia, Montselie, as some says.
  • In all the old documents, one can read: Mousselie. Where does this name come from ? It is the only name that complies with the dialectal pronunciation of the patronymic name. May be one day we will know.
  • Let everyone choose the etymology that suits him best. However, the old writings and the persistence of the dialectal name that is totally uniform make us prefer the last one.

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