Charles Edward "Charlo" Barcant

1899 - 1981  (81 years)

• Name	Charles Edward Barcant
  Nickname	Charlo
  Born	7 Jun 1899	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Jan 1981	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
  Siblings	4 siblings
  + 1. Charles Edward "Charlo" Barcant ,   b. 7 Jun 1899, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 7 Jan 1981, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago  (Age 81 years) + 2. Edwin Emile "Eddie" Barcant ,   b. 3 Sep 1900, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 27 Jan 1985, Trinidad and Tobago  (Age 84 years)   3. Albert Gabriel "Booty" Barcant ,   b. 1901, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 13 Dec 1918, Trinidad and Tobago  (Age 17 years) + 4. Dorothy Marie "Dot" Barcant ,   b. 28 Apr 1904, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 1999, British Columbia, Canada  (Age 94 years) + 5. Malcolm Gerard Barcant ,   b. 11 Feb 1913, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 1 Aug 1986, Pinellas County, Florida, United States  (Age 73 years)
  Person ID	I1398	Simon and Related Families | Barcant Family Descendants
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Joseph Emile Barcant,   b. 17 Oct 1876, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 10 Sep 1933, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Ethel Cuesa Stone,   b. 30 Aug 1878, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 7 Jun 1950, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago  (Age 71 years)
  Married	3 Sep 1898	Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
  Documents		Barcant, Joseph Emile (1876-1933) | Stone, Ethel (1878-1950) - Marriage - Port of Spain Gazette Account of the marriage of J. Emile Barcant and Ethel Cuesa Stone from the Port of Spain Gazette, 4 September 1898, page 3.
  		Barcant, Joseph Emile (1876-1933) | Stone, Ethel (1878-1950) - Marriage - Catholic News Account of the marriage of J. Emile Barcant and Ethel C. Stone from the Catholic News, 9 September 1898, page 5.
  Family ID	F495	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Phyllis Genvieve "Teddie" Collens,   b. 25 Mar 1903, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. Feb 1990, London, England, United Kingdom  (Age 86 years)
  Married	10 Apr 1926	Newtown, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
  Children	1. Kevin Charles Barcant,   b. 5 Aug 1927, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 14 Sep 2012, Cape Canaveral, Brevard County, Florida, United States  (Age 85 years) + 2. Halcyon Maree Barcant,   b. 10 Sep 1929, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago ,   d. 28 Feb 2012, Maraval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago  (Age 82 years) + 3. Living
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2021
  Family ID	F442	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 7 Jun 1899 - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Married - 10 Apr 1926 - Newtown, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago Died - 7 Jan 1981 - Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago  = Link to Google Earth
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• Photos		Barcant, Charles Edward (1899-1981) Charles Edward Barcant.
  		Barcant, Charles Edward (1899-1981) | Collens, Phyllis Genvieve (1903-1990) Charles and Teddie Barcant, at the 1955 wedding of their son, Kevin. Photograph in the possession of Maren Barcant, their daughter-in-law.

  
  

  Documents » Slide Show		Barcant, Charles Edward (1899-1961) - Birth Announcement - 1899 Birth announcement for a son of J. E. Barcant, known from other records to be Charles Edward Barcant, from the Port of Spain Gazette, 8 June 1899, page 7.
  		Barcant, Charles Edward (1899-1961) - News Account - 1920 News item from the Port of Spain Gazette, 23 September 1920, page 11, placing "C. Barcant" as an employee of George R. Alston and Company.
  		Barcant, Charles Edward (1899-1981) - 1922 Passenger List - Page 1 First page of a two-page passenger list entry for Charles Barcant (Line 3), traveling to New York City on his family's business, arriving 11 April 1922.
  		Barcant, Charles Edward (1899-1981) - 1922 Passenger List - Page 2 Second page of a two-page passenger list entry for Charles Barcant (Line 3), traveling to New York City on his family's business, arriving 11 April 1922.
  		Barcant, Charles Edward (1899-1981) - Comments in the "Evening World" Newspaper interview with Charles E. Barcant by Roger Batchelder of "The Evening World" newspaper in New York, who interviewed visitors to the city for his column "New Yorkers for a Day or Two." Charles Barcant commented on Trinidad's place in the cocoa industry. From The Evening World (New York), 2 June 1922, page 8, column 6.
  		Barcant, Charles Edward (1899-1961) - Advertisement for Sale of Split Peas Advertisement on page 12 of the Port of Spain Gazette, 22 October 1922 for the sale of imported split peas by Charles E. Barcant, at a different address on Frederick Street than the Barcant jewelry shop. An identical advertisement ran on 17 October 1922, page 7.

  
  

• Notes

  BIRTH: - Full date and location from handwritten notes by Karen Barcant Simon. - Consistent with age (23 years) in 1922 passenger arrival list in New York for the "VanDyck," sailing from Trinidad. Father listed as J.E. Barcant. MARRIAGE: Full date and location from handwritten notes by Karen Barcant Simon. OCCUPATION: - Employed by George R. Alston & Co. (1920 news item) - Merchant (1922 passenger arrival record) - Farmer in Maraval (1930s and 1940s, family oral history) TRAVEL: - On 11 April 1922, Charles Barcant arrived in New York for a one month stay and the passenger manifest gave his destination address there as "c/o Rueff Brothers, 76 - 5th Avenue, NYCity." The Rueff Brothers were listed in a roughly contemporaneous document of the U.S. Patent Office ["Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for the Year 1918," (Washington, D.C., 1919), pp. 653-654] as registering trademarks for "watches and clocks" and "named jewelry and precious metal ware," so it appears that Charles was traveling on his family's business. - While in New York, Charles was interviewed by Roger Batchelder of the "Evening World" newspaper, who wrote a column about visitors to New York called "New Yorkers for a Day or Two." Charles' comment on Trinidad's cocoa industry were published in this column on Friday, 2 June 1922, page 8S. DEATH: Full date and location from handwritten notes by Karen Barcant Simon. BURIAL: Buried in Barcant family plot, Lapeyrouse Cemetery, Block #12, Grave Space #91-96, west side of 12th Street in Cemetery. He is buried in grave space #92, according to records in the cemetery office, but there is no tombstone.