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- DEATH:
Living in Port of Spain in January 1831, but her 1831 Slave Register return was submitted on her behalf by another person (i.e., John Louit) due to her being "unable to attend from indisposition," so she might have been in failing healthe time.
CONNECTION TO SELLIER FAMILY:
- Her listing in her 1831 Slave Register entry as "Ve Josephine Terville Sellier" (i.e., Veuve [or widow] Josephine Terville Sellier) seems most likely to connote that she was the wife of Fabien Terville Sellier. Support for this view is the fact that Fabien Terville Sellier was resident in Port of Spain with a reduced complement of his personal slaves in 1825 and she is living in Port of Spain with two of those enslaved persons in 1831. It is odd that she had to purchase or acquire the two slaves listed with her 1831 entry, as they were born into enslavement and were listed as such in previous Slave Registers. It may be that the means of disposing of her husband's assets at his death was to sell everything and to allow heirs to purchase what they wanted from the estate.
- An alternate possibility is that she was the mother of Fabien Terville Sellier and the second wife of his father, Francois Sellier Faucour, with a birth name of Josephine Terville. This would explain why Fabien has a different surname than the other son of Francois with whom he was a co-owner of Champs Fleurs estate in 1819. If this is her connection, then the assumption that Fabien Terville Sellier was dead by 1831 would not be correct. He does not appear in the 1831 Registers, though, so this is considered to be an alternate explanation and not the favored one.
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