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- BIRTH:
- Year of birth given as about 1770 in research of Monique Clarac posted by Daniel Larcier to his genealogical website at http://daniel.larcier.free.fr/famille/gatt1/clarac2.html.
- Place of birth given by Monique Clarac as Nay, Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques, France (formerly known as Basses-Pyr?n?es), but Daniel Larcier noted that he did not find the birth record in Nay records from 1769-1772.
MARRIAGE:
- Wife identified as Marie Adelaide "Isabelle" Sellier in research of Monique Clarac posted by Daniel Larcier to his genealogical website at http://daniel.larcier.free.fr/famille/gatt1/clarac2.html. No date or location of marriage given.
- Given that Marie Adelaide Philipe Sellier filed a return for the 1813 Plantation Slaves Register in Trinidad on 27 March 1813, under her maiden name, and given that her first child with Antoine Clarac was born in May 1814, her marriage to him likely took place sometime between March and August 1813 in Trinidad.
LAND HOLDINGS AND ENSLAVED WORKERS:
- In the 1816 Plantation Slaves Register for Trinidad, Antoine Clarac was identified as the owner of the St. Margarett Estate, "late the property of Marie Adelaide Philipe Sellier," with 17 enslaved workers, all listed in the 1813 Plantation Slaves Register return of Marie Adelaide Philipe Sellier. This would indicate that he became the owner of St. Margarett Estate by virtue of having married Marie Adelaide. The plantation was still a cotton plantation.
- In the 1819 Plantation Slaves Register for Trinidad, Antoine Clarac was identified as a co-owner of St. Marguerett Estate with Louis Lafourcade. The estate had been converted from a cotton plantation to a sugar plantation, and the number of enslaved workers jumped from 12 to 25 (not surprising, since sugar plantations were more labor-intensive). At the same time, four of the enslaved workers in the 1816 Plantation Slaves Register return for Clarac had been transferred to a new 1819 Personal Slaves Register return, which showed Clarac as the sole owner of these enslaved servants. The picture that is suggested by these changes is that St. Margarett estate was not doing well as a cotton plantation, and Antoine Clarac sold a half-interest in the plantation to Louis Lafourcade to raise the capital needed to convert the plantation to sugar production. Jean Baptiste Bertrand was resident in Port of Spain (as noted on the 1819 Personal Slaves Register return), where the returns had to be filed, and Mayaro was quite distant, so that is probably why Bertrand's name is on these returns.
- The co-ownership of St. Margarett Estate with Louis Lafourcade continued through the 1822 and 1825 returns of the Triennial Plantation Slaves Register for Trinidad, both of which were filed in late January of their respective years.
- The ownership of St. Margarett Estate changed between January 1825 and January 1828. By the date on which the 1828 Plantation Slaves Register return was filed for St. Margarett (16 January 1828), Antoine Clarac had died and the estate was owned only by Louis Lafourcade. He was apparently not resident on the estate, though, as it was in the possession of a person acting in his stead, Francois Mathieu.
- By January 1831, Louis Lafourcade sold to the estate to Fran?ois Mathieu, who was listed as the owner in his own right of St. Margarett estate in its 1831 Plantation Slaves Register Return. Fran?ois Mathieu continued to be listed as its owner in the final Plantation Slaves Register return in January 1834, purchasing additional enslaved workers from 1831 to 1834. He ultimately received ?3028 7s 10d in compensation from the British government when his enslaved workers on St. Margarett were emancipated in August 1834, as shown in "Trinidad 1559 (Ste Margaret)", Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/28603 [accessed 31st January 2021].
DEATH:
- Year of death given as 1824 in the 20 September 1841 marriage record of Fran?ois Etienne Clarac to Marguerite Jaham Desrivaux in the civil records for 1841 of Fort Royal (now known as Fort-de-France), Martinique, No. 450, pages 165r-166v (images 164-166) available at http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/osd.php?territoire=MARTINIQUE&commune=FORT%20ROYAL&annee=1841.
- Year of death more likely to be 1825, given that he filed two Slave Register returns in Trinidad on 27 January 1825, one for the enslaved plantation workers he co-owned with Louis Lafourcade and one for his enslaved personal servants.
- Death before 1828 consistent with the fact that Antoine Clarac was listed as a co-owner of St. Margarett estate in Mayaro in 1825, but not 1828.
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Abt 1770 - 1825 (~ 55 years)
