Antoine Clarac

Abt 1770 - 1825  (~ 55 years)

• Name	Antoine Clarac
  Born	Abt 1770	Nay, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
  Gender	Male
  Died	1825	Mayaro, Trinidad and Tobago
  Person ID	I10462	Simon and Related Families
  Last Modified	4 Jul 2021

  
  

  Family	Marie Adelaide Philipe Sellier,   b. 7 Apr 1767, Anse-Bertrand, Guadeloupe, France ,   d. 1820, Mayaro, Trinidad and Tobago  (Age 52 years)
  Married	1813	Trinidad and Tobago
  Children	1. Paul Antoine Alfred Clarac,   b. 11 May 1814, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 21 Feb 1844, Fort-de-France, Martinique, France  (Age 29 years)   2. François Étienne Gustave Clarac,   b. 11 May 1819, Mayaro, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 4 Jul 1890, Fort-de-France, Martinique, France  (Age 71 years)   3. Pierre Élie Adolphe Clarac,   b. 17 Oct 1820, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 20 Dec 1871, Oran, Algeria  (Age 51 years)
  Last Modified	20 Jan 2021
  Family ID	F3247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Triennial Plantation Slaves Register for Antoine Clarac - 1816 - St. Margarett Estate Triennial Plantation Slaves Return for 1816, in which Antoine Clarac is 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 document is at The National Archives of the UK (TNA), T 71/502, folio 1049, "The Annual Return of Antoine Clarac for the Plantation called St. Margarett in the Quarter called Mayaro," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1813-1816, Plantation Slaves," image 819, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133744-00818.
  		Sale of Part of St. Margaret's Estate - 1817 Entry for the sale of a part of St. Margaret's Estate in Mayaro, from a table in Papers, presented pursuant to address, relating to the Island of Trinidad (London: Ordered by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 1823), page 214, available in New York Public Library Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/73406e90-0fbf-0134-026a-00505686a51c.
  		Triennial Plantation Slaves Register for Antoine Clarac and Louis Lafourcade - 1819 - St. Margarett Estate Composite image, across two folio pages, of the Triennial Plantation Slaves Return for St. Margarett Estate in 1819, in which Antoine Clarac is now identified as the co-owner of the estate with Louis Lafourcade. A Jean Baptiste Bertrand filed the return as their attorney and administrator. Four of the slaves previously on the 1816 return have been transferred to a Personal Slaves Register for Antoine Clarac. This document is at TNA, T 71/508, folios 1293-1294, "The Triennial Return of Jn. Bte. Bertrand for the Plantation Called St. Marguerett in the Quarter called Mayaro," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1819, Plantation Slaves," images 357-358, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133749-00356.
  		Triennial Personal Slaves Register for Antoine Clarac - 1819 Triennial Personal Slaves Return for Antoine Clarac in 1819, showing the transfer of four enslaved workers from the register for St. Margarett Estate to his personal register. This document is at TNA, T 71/509, folio 1359, "The Triennial Return of Antoine Clarac of the Quarter of Mayaro by his Atty Jean Bte. Bertrand of the Town of Port of Spain of Personal Slaves," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1819, Personal Slaves," image 270, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133750-00269.
  		Triennial Plantation Slaves Register for Antoine Clarac and Louis Lafourcade - 1822 - St. Margarett Estate Composite image, across two folio pages, of the Triennial Plantation Slaves Return for St. Margarett Estate in 1822. Once again, both Antoine Clarac and Louis Lafourcade (using their surnames) are identified as owners, and once again, the return is filed by Jean Baptiste Bertrand (as their attorney in Port of Spain). This document is at TNA, T 71/511, folios 1589-1590, "The Triennial Return of Clarac & Lafourcade by J. Bte. Bertrand for the Plantation called St. Margarett in the quarter of Mayaro," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1822, Plantation Slaves," images 388-389, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133752-00387.
  		Triennial Personal Slaves Register for Antoine Clarac - 1822 Triennial Personal Slaves Return for Antoine Clarac in 1822, showing the transfer of an additional enslaved worker from the register for St. Margarett Estate to his personal register. This document is at TNA, T 71/510, folio 1734, "The triennial Return of Antoine Clarac of the Quarter of Mayaro by J.B. Bertrand of Personal Slaves," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1822, Personal Slaves," image 274, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133751-00273.
  		Triennial Plantation Slaves Register for Antoine Clarac and Louis Lafourcade - 1825 - St. Margarett Estate Triennial Plantation Slaves Return for St. Margarett Estate in 1825. Once again, both Antoine Clarac and Louis Lafourcade are identified as owners, and once again, the return is filed by Jean Baptiste Bertrand (as their agent in Port of Spain). This document is at TNA, T 71/513, folio 1746, "The triennial Return of Antoine Clarac & Louis Lafourcade by J.B. Bertrand their agent for the Plantation called Ste. Margarett in the quarter called Mayaro," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1825, Plantation Slaves," image 311, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133754-00310.
  		Triennial Personal Slaves Register for Antoine Clarac - 1825 Triennial Personal Slaves Return for Antoine Clarac in 1825. This document is at TNA, T 71/512, folio 2098, "The Triennial Return of Antoine Clarac of the Quarter of Mayaro by his Agent J.B. Bertrand of Personal Slaves," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1825, Personal Slaves," image 272, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133753-00271.
  		Sellier, Marie Adelaide (1767-1820) | Clarac, Antoine (1770-1824) - Death Composite image of a portion of the 1841 marriage record for François Etienne Clarac and Marguerite Jaham Desrivaux stating the years in which Marie Adelaide Sellier and Antoine Clarac died. From the civil records of Fort Royal (now Fort-de-France), Martinique.
  		Clarac, Paul Antoine (1814-1844) | Clarac, François Etienne (1819-1890) | Clarac, Pierre Elie (1820-1871) - Sale of Interest in St. Margaret Estate, 1827 Legal notice in the Port of Spain Gazette, running from 20 December 1826 to 3 March 1827, announcing a sale of their undivided interest in part of St. Margaret Estate in Mayaro. This image is from the first appearance of the notice, in the Port of Spain Gazette, 20 December 1826, page 2, available at https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00094730/06737/2x.
  		Triennial Personal Slaves Register - Entries of Changes to Enslaved Servants of Antoine Clarac - 1828 Composite image of two entries in the "corrections" section of the 1828 Triennial Personal Slaves Register, showing the sale--during the period from January 1825 to January 1828--of three enslaved personal servants of Antoine Clarac to the owner of St. Margarett Estate (and transfer to the estate's register page--folio 1973--in the Plantation Slaves Register). As noted in both records, there was no triennial Personal Slaves Register return for Antoine Clarac in 1828. These images are in TNA, T 71/514, pages 63v and 89v, "Antoine Clarac" (on both pages), images available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1828, Personal Slaves," images 66 and 92, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133755-00065 and https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133755-00091.
  		Triennial Plantation Slaves Register for Louis Lafourcade - 1828 - St. Margarett Estate Triennial Plantation Slaves Return for St. Margarett Estate in 1828. The estate is now owned only by Louis Lafourcade and is described as being "late the property of Clarac & the said Lafourcade." The return was filed by François Mathieu, who is in possession of the estate as the attorney of Louis Lafourcade. This document is at TNA, T 71/515, folio 1973, "The triennial Return of Francois Mathieu for the Plantation called St. Margarett in the quarter of Mayaro," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1828, Plantation Slaves," image 318, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133756-00317.
  		Triennial Plantation Slaves Register for François Mathieu - 1831 - St. Margarett Estate Triennial Plantation Slaves Return for St. Margarett Estate in 1828. The estate is now owned by François Mathieu and is described as being "late the property of L. Lafourcade." This document is at TNA, T 71/517, folio 2144, "The Triennial Return of F. Mathieu for the Plantation called St. Margarett in the quarter of Mayaro," image available in "Former British Colonial Dependencies, Slave Registers, 1813-1834," Trinidad, "1831, Personal and Plantation Slaves," image 788, on Ancestry at https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1129/images/CSUK1812_133757-00787.

  
  

• Notes

  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, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France (formerly known as Basses-Pyrénées), 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 1817, a part of St. Margaret's Estate in Mayaro was sold at the Tribunal of the Chief Judge in Trinidad. The estate was described as being 100 quarées and having 12 slaves. This is consistent with the description of the number of slaves in the 1819 Plantation Slaves Register for St. Marguerett Estate, so it appears that this is when Louis Lafourcade became a co-owner of the estate. The sale was for more than the appraised value, and the circumstances of the sale are not known. - 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 François Mathieu, who was listed as the owner in his own right of St. Margarett estate in its 1831 Plantation Slaves Register Return. François 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 François 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 occurred before a court proceeding involving the St. Margaret Estate in which his three sons were represented by their guardian, Louis Aignasse Lafourcade (Clarac's partner in St. Margaret Estate). The first notice of this proceeding appeared on 20 December 1826 in the Port of Spain Gazette, page 2. - 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. - Would have died before the probate of his will in 1826 (1826, Will #20). The exact date of probate is not known. PROBATE: - A probate action is listed for Antoine Clarac (1826, Will #20) in an Index of Wills, 1818-1862, in the Register General's Office for Trinidad and Tobago. Not known if there is a surviving will or other record, beyond this index. An alphabetized list of names in the index, by year, is available at https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10227774728220634.