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- BIRTH:
- Listed as a daughter of Pierre Fabien Sellier based on an 1816 slave register listing a personal slave for Charlotte E. Sellier. She is described as residing in the Quarter of St. Joseph (where Fabien Sellier lived) and he acted as her attorney in submitting the register return. If it is assumed that one had to be 21 years of age in order to own an enslaved person (and the fact that her Fabien Sellier is described as her attorney and not as her guardian may suggest that that she was not a minor), then this would indicate a year of birth on or before 1795.
- Identified as the same person as "Mrs. Widow Langlois" in a slave register return for 1825 for the L'Hermitage Estate in the Quarter of Guanapo, submitted by "her Father and Agent Peter F. Sellier, Esqr." One of the enslaved women in the return is Marie Sainte Laodisse, the same enslaved personal servant (under the name of Marie Sainte Laodice) listed as property of Charlotte E. Sellier in her slave register return of 1813.
- Subsequent slave register returns show that she married again to John McKay and was known as Elizabeth McKay.
LAND HOLDINGS:
- Was the owner (along with the "succession of Paul Langlois"--presumably minor children of their marriage) of L'Hermitage Estate, a cocoa plantation in the Quarter of Guanapo, Trinidad, according to 1825 Plantation Slave Register. L'Hermitage was listed as a new plantation name in the 1825 Plantation Slaves Register, but it might have simply been a renaming of Maturine Estate, which was owned by Paul Langlois in the 1822 Plantation Slaves Register. In 1834, L'Hermitage Estate is renamed "Mathurine." This record is in The National Archives of the UK (TNA), T 71/519, page 175v, "L'Hermitage," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1825, Plantation Slaves," image 179, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133754-00178.
- Her second husband (John McKay) is listed as the owner of L'Hermitage in 1828 and she is listed as the owner (but with no mention of the succession of Paul Langlois) in 1831 and 1834. The latter may mean that her children of her first marriage had died. The lack of any mention of John McKay may mean that he had died, as well.
- In 1834, a Plantation Slaves Register return for Mathurine Estate, "late L'Hermitage," was filed by on Elizabeth McKay's behalf by Charles Alexander Colomie, Elizabeth's brother-in-law. Elizabeth McKay is listed as the owner of the plantation and in possession of it. It appeasr that the name of the estate was changed between 1831 and 1834. The lack of any mention of Elizabeth's husband, and the fact that the return was made by her brother-in-law appears to confirm that John McKay had died. The record of the 1831 return in the "corrections" part of the 1834 Plantation Slaves Register notes the sale of one of the enslaved workers.
- Listed as a co-owner of "La Marguerite" Estate in St. Joseph, formerly known as "Marguerite" but listed as a new plantation name in the list of such names in the 1834, Plantation Slaves Register. This record is in The National Archives of the UK (TNA), T 71/519, page 165v, "La Marguerite," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1834, Plantation Slaves," image 170, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133759-00169.
- On 25 November 1857, sold 30 quar?es of land (96 acres) in the Quarter of Guanapo to Jos? Antonio Montenegro and 10 quare?es of land (32 acres) to David Park. This might have been the disposition of Mathurine (formerly known as L'Hermitage) Estate. This transaction is recorded in "Selected Trinidad Land Transactions -- From 1810 to the Early 1860s," page 117, available on this website at this link.
DEATH:
Since she was alive at the time of a land transaction in November 1857, she must have died after that time.
OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS:
The 1825 and 1828 slave registers make reference to her being the representative of a succession of interest of Paul Langlois, so there may have been minor children of this marriage.
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Our Family History
Bef 1796 - Aft 1857 (~ 62 years)
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