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- BIRTH:
- Parents named as Honor? Sellier and Genevieve Elisabeth Desbonne in his 1782 marriage record, available at http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/osd.php?territoire=SAINT-MARTIN&commune=MARIGOT&annee=1782&typeacte=AC_MA.
- Since he was of age to marry in 1782, he must have been born before 1762.
- If he was born before 1762, then he would have been born in Carriacou, Grenada, where his father was listed as a landowner in 1763.
MARRIAGE:
- Wife identified as Adhelaide Sellier, full date given as 20 August 1782, and location given as Marigot, St. Martin, French West Indies in marriage record available at http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/osd.php?territoire=SAINT-MARTIN&commune=MARIGOT&annee=1782&typeacte=AC_MA.
- The marriage record mentions a dispensation due to the degree of affinity and consanguinity (but the degree is not specified). Francois and Adhelaide were first cousins, so a dispensation would be required.
NAMES:
- Identified as Francois Sellier Foucour in his marriage record. His father-in-law (and uncle) is identified in the same marriage record as Pierre Sellier Sellier. This latter is understandable, as Pierre's father was also named Pierre Sellier.
- Consistently signed his last name Sellier Faucour.
ADDRESSES:
- Resident in Sainte-Rose, Guadeloupe, with his father in 1773, where he served as godfather to his half-brother Cyrille Sellier.
- Resident in Marigot, Saint-Martin, from 1782-1793.
- Resident in Trinidad in 1810, inasmuch as he signed a letter from the principal landowners to King George III on 10 August 1810.
- Owner of Champ Fleurs Estate, Quarter of Aricagua, Trinidad, in 1813, and likely resident there until his death some time before January 1819.
LAND OWNERSHIP:
- According to documents found by Patricia Wight, he was listed (under the name Faucour Sellier) as the Actual Proprietor of a Spanish Land Grant of 60 quar?es (192 acres) in Aricagua Quarter initially surveyed in 1788 and then granted by Governor Chacon to John Nugent on 7 February 1793. Of this land, 34 quar?es (109 acres) were in sugar cane, provisions (i.e., food), and pasture.
- Listed as the owner of Champ Fleurs Estate in the Quarter of Aricagua in a 1813 Plantation Slave Register return enumerating 87 enslaved workers. Name given in this record was Fran?ois Sellier Foucoud. This document is at The National Archives of the UK (TNA), T 71/501, folio 1, "The Return of Francois Sellier Faucoud [sic] for the Plantation called Champ Fleurs in the Quarter of Aricagua," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1813, Plantation Slaves," image 17, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133743-00016.
- The Champ Fleurs estate in the Quarter of Aricagua was described as being "late the property of F.S. Faucour" in its Triennial Plantation Slave Register return dated 21 January 1819. This document is at TNA, T 71/508, folio 1142, "The Triennial Return of F. H. Sellier Faucour for the Plantation called Champ Fleurs in the Quarter Called Aricagua," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1819, Plantation Slaves," image 207, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133749-00206.
DEATH:
- Appears to have died before 21 January 1819, given that the Champs-Fleur estate was listed as being co-owned by Fabien T. Sellier and F.H. Sellier Foucour, and being "late the property of F.S. Faucour," in a triennial slave register dated 21 January 1819. This document is at TNA, T 71/508, folio 1142, "The Triennial Return of F. H. Sellier Faucour for the Plantation called Champ Fleurs in the Quarter Called Aricagua," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1819, Plantation Slaves," image 207, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133749-00206.
- Certainly died before 25 September 1824, the date of the sale of Champs-Fleurs estate (consisting of 69 and 18/19 quarr?s in Aricagua Quarter) by the "Heirs of the late Faucour" to Etienne Blanc, who then immediately sold back about one-quarter of the estate (26 and 13/18 quarr?s) to Terville Sellier and his wife. This might indicate that he had four heirs.
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