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Charles SELLIER
Abt 1814 - 1886 (~ 72 years)
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Name Charles SELLIER Born Abt 1814 Trinidad and Tobago 
Gender Male Died 27 Apr 1886 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago 
Siblings4 Siblings Person ID I10319 Sellier Last Modified 7 Mar 2024
Father Jean Baptiste SELLIER, b. Abt 1785, Trinidad and Tobago , d. Abt 4 Nov 1857, Marguerite Estate, St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago (Age ~ 72 years) Mother Rosalie DANCLA, b. 27 Feb 1795, Trinidad and Tobago , d. Abt 9 Mar 1854, Marguerite Estate, St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago (Age 59 years) Family ID F3205 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Rose Victoire Marie MAINGOT, b. 19 Feb 1821, Trinidad , d. Sep 1882, Trinidad (Age 61 years) Married 18 Oct 1841 Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Children 1. Marie Anicie SELLIER, b. Abt 1844, St. Joseph, Trinidad and Tobago , d. 13 Feb 1912, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (Age ~ 68 years)2. Beatrice SELLIER, b. Abt 1848, Trinidad and Tobago 3. Caroline SELLIER, b. Abt 1850, Trinidad and Tobago , d. 2 Jan 1857, Trinidad and Tobago (Age ~ 7 years)+ 4. Alphonse Louis Victor SELLIER, b. 6 Mar 1852, Trinidad and Tobago , d. 8 May 1905, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (Age 53 years)+ 5. Ernest Louis SELLIER, b. Abt 1857, Trinidad and Tobago , d. 12 Jul 1941, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (Age ~ 84 years)6. Louis Robert SELLIER, b. 29 Apr 1858, Trinidad + 7. Jean Baptiste Denis SELLIER, b. 24 Mar 1860, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago , d. 14 Feb 1925, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (Age 64 years)8. Elvire SELLIER, b. Abt 1862, Trinidad and Tobago , d. 26 Apr 1938, Trinidad and Tobago (Age ~ 76 years)9. Agnès Sellier, d. 1945, Trinidad and Tobago Last Modified 7 Mar 2024 Family ID F3223 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 2 Rose Victoire Marie MAINGOT, b. 19 Feb 1821, Trinidad , d. Sep 1882, Trinidad (Age 61 years) Children 1. Agnès Sellier, d. 1945, Trinidad and Tobago Last Modified 7 Mar 2024 Family ID F5 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Documents 
Death Certificate
Church Marriage Record
Histories 
Proof of ownership of La Marguerite Estate, St. Joseph from obituary of his son JBD Sellier, POS Gazette, 15 Feb 1925.
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Notes - BIRTH:
Approximate year of birth given as 1814 based on subtracting his age from his year of death on his Death Certificate.
- Assuming that he was in secondary school in the 1825-1827 time period (see below), his year of birth might have been in the early 1810s.
STUDENT IN FRANCE:
The name of Charles Sellier, born in Trinidad ("né à la Trinité espagnole"), appears on the lists of students receiving academic awards [Fr: palmistes] in 1825-1827 at the Collège Royal de Louis-le-Grand, a prestigious secondary school located in Paris that was founded in 1563. An account of this list can be found in A. Vendryes, "Americains ? Louis-le-Grand," Généalogie et Histoire de la Caraïbe Bulletin, no. 12 (January 1990), page 95, available at http://www.ghcaraibe.org/bul/ghc012/p0095.html.
LAND TRANSACTIONS AND HOLDINGS:
- Sold one quarée (3.2 acres) of L'Espérance Estate in the Quarter of Aricagua to Charles Gaspar on 17 May 1851. This transaction is recorded in "Selected Trinidad Land Transactions -- From 1810 to the Early 1860s," page 5, available on this website at this link.
- Sold another quarée (3.2 acres) of L'Esperance Estate in the Quarter of Aricagua to Evangelist Michel Segros on 24 September 1852. This transaction is recorded in "Selected Trinidad Land Transactions -- From 1810 to the Early 1860s," page 5, available on this website at this link.
- On 14 October 1862, Charles Sellier and Ferdinand Maingot bought, as trustees for Anne Scott and Arsene Rostant, an acre of a parcel of land called "Devenish's Land," in the Quarter of Couva, from Leonard Rostant. This transaction is recorded in "Selected Trinidad Land Transactions -- From 1810 to the Early 1860s," page 90, available on this website at this link.
- As per the obituary of his son JBD Sellier published in the Port of Spain Gazette of 15 Feb 1925, Charles Sellier was formerly of La Marguerite Estate, St. Joseph.
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