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- BIRTH:
- Year of birth would be around 1673, according to age (around 70 years) given in his 1743 burial record in the records of Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe, 1743, page 1, right side, final entry. Place of birth given (in French) as St. Christophe. Record available at http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/osd.php?territoire=GUADELOUPE&commune=ANSE-BERTRAND&annee=1743.
- St. Christophe is known today as St. Kitts and is part of the Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis. Its French population was expelled by the British in 1690 and French claims to the island were definitively lost to the British in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
HISTORY ON ST. KITTS:
- Unsourced information from the internet indicates that a Fabien Sellier, married to a Marguerite Petit, lived in St. Kitts while it was a French colony (under the name Saint-Christophe) and they were listed, without children, in a census in 1671, living in la Grande Saline (http://www.ghcaraibe.org/bul/ghc078/p1528.html). The census list from 1671 has been published in Bernadette Rossignol and Philippe Rossignol, Recensement de l'Ile de Saint-Christophe, ann?e 1671: liste des personnes figurant dans le terrier (Paris: Centre de G?n?alogie et d'histoire des Isles d'Amerique, 1987). WorldCat gives two locations for this book, one in the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and the other in the Biblioth?que nationale de France in Paris. An online digest of names in the book, prepared by the Rossignols and available at http://www.ghcaraibe.org/docu/st-chr/1671ter/rech.html, however does not list any Selliers, nor any person with a first name of Fabien. It has a single mention of a Petit with no first name. The sourcing of this information regarding the 1671 census, therefore, requires additional research.
- A separate (but undated) census list of the inhabitants of Saint-Christophe, dated by Bernadette and Phillipe Rossignol to May-August 1690 (by comparison to other documents from Saint-Christophe) lists a "Fabien Cellier" as an unarmed member of the "Compagnie du sieur de Laguarigue." This company list contained 31 armed residents and 111 unarmed residents (probably the names of heads of households) in total. Also listed as unarmed members of this company are Guy Petit, Jean Petit, and Paul Faucourt. This dating would put the census just before the British capture of the island the the expulsion of its French residents. The dating of the 1690 census document is described in a brief article, Bernadette and Philippe Rossignol, "Le Role General des Habitants de Saint-Christophe: 1690?", G?n?alogie et Histoire de la Cara?be Bulletin, no. 13 (February 1990), page 106, available at http://www.ghcaraibe.org/bul/ghc013/p0106.html. The listing of inhabitants in the original order of the census can be found at http://www.ghcaraibe.org/docu/st-chr/1689/stx1689orig.html.
MARRIAGE:
- Wife named as Marie Faucourt in the 1738 marriage record of their son, Honor? Sellier, and the January 1743 marriage record of their son Pierre Sellier. Name given as Marie Faucour in the August 1739 marriage record of their son Paul Sellier, but this is a copy of an original record, as opposed to the 1738 and 1743 records, which are originals.
ADDRESSES:
Saint-Fran?ois, Guadeloupe (1721 baptismal record of daughter, Marie)
DEATH AND BURIAL:
Death date would be on or just before his burial date of 9 March 1743 given in his burial record in the parish records of Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe, 1743, page 1, right side, final entry. Record available at http://anom.archivesnationales.re.gouv.fr/caomec2/osd.php?territoire=GUADELOUPE&commune=ANSE-BERTRAND&annee=1743.
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Abt 1673 - Abt 1743 (~ 70 years)
