Application for Naturalisation by Eugene Rimmel in 1857 (granted)

To The Right Honorable Sir George Grey Baronet M P Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department

The Humble Memorial of Eugene Rimmel of No. 39 Gerrard Street Soho in the County of Middlesex Wholesale Perfumer

Sheweth
That your Memorialist is a French Subject born in Paris in the French Empire and of French Parents.
That your Memorialist is 36 years of age and carries on the Trade or business of a Wholesale Perfumer
That your Memorialist is married and has three children all born in England and now living
That your Memorialist's settled place of business is at No. 39 Gerrard Street Soho in the said County of Middlesex and that he has carried on his trade or business at that place as a Wholesale Perfumer and Housekeeper since the year 1846 and has resided in England for the last 23 years and is also a Housekeeper residing at No. 7 Gloucester Terrace, Kensington in the said County of Middlesex.
That it is your Memorialist's intention to continue his trade or business and to reside permanently within the United Kingdom.
That your Memorialist seeks to obtain the rights and capacities of a natural Born British Subject that he may be enabled to purchase a Leasehold Estate for the purposes of his said Trade or Business of a Wholesale Perfumer.

Your Memorialist therefore most humbly prays that your Honor will be pleased to grant unto your Memorialist a Certificate of Naturalization under the provisions of an Act of Parliament made and passed in the Session of Parliament holden in the 7th and 8th years of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria entitled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Aliens" by which your Memorialist will upon taking the Oath thereinafter prescribed (which he is ready and willing to do) have all the rights and capacities of a Natural Born British Subject (except the rights and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra judicial Oaths and Affidavits ad to make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths.

J Bowen Jones
Frederick Barron
J E Clinch
H W Clinch

Subscribed and Declared by the Declarants Joseph Bowen Jones, Frederick Barron, John Edward Clinch and Henry William Clinch at my Office No. 5 Nicholas Lane in the City of London this 21st day of August 1857 before me.

We Joseph Bowen Jones of No. 28 Lombard Street in the City of London Perfumer Fredrick Barron of No. 1 Bush Lane Cannon Street in the said City of London Wholesale Druggist John Edward Clinch of No. 17 De Beauvoir Square Kingsland in the County of Middlesex and of No. 46 Abchurch Lane in the said City of London Merchant and Henry William Clinch of Hope Villas Victoria Park Road South Hackney in the said County of Middlesex and of No. 46 Abchurch Lane aforesaid Merchant Do respectively solemnly and sincerely declare as follows that is to say -

1. We each speaking positively for himself and to the best of his knowledge and belief as to the others or other of us say that we are respectively Householders and British Born Subjects resident in England and that we respectively carry on our respective businesses in the City of London at the places above mentioned and that neither of us is or are the Agents or Agent Solicitors or Solicitor of the said Eugene Rimmel.
2. We have for several years known and been intimately acquainted with Eugene Rimmel of No. 39 Gerrard Street Soho in the County of Middlesex Wholesale Perfumer and that the said Eugene Rimmel is a man of great respectability and loyally disposed towards Her Majesty Queen Victoria and that we verily believe from our knowledge of the said Eugene Rimmel that the several particulars stated in the Memorial of the said Eugene Rimmel produced to each of us at the time of making this our Declaration marked with the letter A addressed to The Right Honorable Sir George Grey Baronet Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department praying that a Certificate of Naturalization may be granted to the said Eugene Rimell under the provisions of the Statute made and now in force relating to Aliens are true in substance and in fact.
3. And we severally make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the sixth year of the Reign of His Majesty King William the Fourth intituled "An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament intituled "An Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and capacities (if any)" specially to be excepted by your Honor in and by such Certificate

And your Memorialist as in duty bound will ever pray

Eugene Rimmel

A

This is the paper writing marked A referred to in the joint Declaration of Joseph Bowen Jones Frederick Barron John Edward Clinch and William Henry Clinch made before me this 21st day of August 1857.

I Eugene Rimmel of No. 39 Gerrard Street Soho in the County of Middlesex Wholesale Perfumer do solemnly and sincerely declare as follows that is to say -

1.    I am a French subject born in Paris in the French Empire and of French Parents.
2.   I am now of the age of 36 years and carry on the trade or business of a Wholesale Perfumer
3.   I am married and have three children born in England and who are still living.
4.   My settled place of business is at No. 39 Gerrard Street Soho in the said County of Middlesex and I have carried on my said Trade or business at that place as a Wholesale Perfumer and Housekeeper since the year one thousand eight hundred and forty six and I have resided in England for the last twenty three years and am also a Housekeeper at No. 7 Gloucester Terrace Kensington in the said County of Middlesex.
5.   It is my intention to continue my said trade or business and to reside permanently within the United Kingdom.
6.   I seek to obtain the rights and capacities of a natural Born British Subject that I may be enabled to purchase a Leasehold Estate for the purposes of my said Trade or Business of a Wholesale Perfumer and I am ready and willing to take and subscribe the Oath required by the Statute 7 and 8 Victoria Cap:66 intituled "An Act to amend the Laws relating to Aliens" And I make this solemn Declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of an Act made and passed in the Session of Parliament held in the fifth and sixth years of the Reign of His late Majesty king William the Fourth intituled "An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament intituled "An Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extrajudicial Oaths and Affidavits and do make other provisions for the abolition of unnecessary Oaths."

Eugene Rimell

Subscribed and Declared at No. 5 Nicholas Lane in the City of London this 20th day of August 1857 Before me

 Transcribed from HO/1/81/2524, held at the National Archive, Kew, by Peter Rimell on Friday 2nd September 2005.

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