Thursday 9 February 2017

Cocoa estates owned by French Creole families 1916

A list of cocoa estates owned by French families in 1916, a period that may be considered a high point in the economy of Trinidad.
Out of some one thousand cocoa estates  in 1916 (Franklyn's Year Book 1916) the French Creole holdings were: (some names are not French but these people were considered to be a part of that comunity)
 Centeno 1. de la Payrouse 4. de Martini 1. Blanc 1. de Gannes 8. Cipriani 4. Leoteaud 8. Quesnel 1. Stollmeyer 9. Sellier 4. Garcia 1. Caracciolo 4. Delisle 3. Luces 3 de Verteuil 14 llanos 1. Giuseppi 2. Maingot 7. de Matas 6. Pollonais 2 Ambard 1. D’Abadie 4. Pampellonne 1. Anduze ! Kernahan 1. Boos 1. Thavenot 1. de Boissiere 2 Hart 1. Savary 2 Borde 3 Agostini 4 Senbior 1. Coryat 6 Rostant 2. d’Heureux 1. Figeroux 1. Gransaul (. Farfan 1. de Pompignon 1. de Meillac 1. Pantin 1. Devenish 3 Know 1. de Boehmler 1. O’Connor 2.
 Lezama 1. Zepero 1. Wehekind 1. Herrera 1. Bernard 1. Fahay 1. Peschier 2. Franklyn’s Year Book 1916.
These estates came in a varity of acreages.

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