Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Marie Elizabeth Gaury


Came across another Gaury on ANOM's digitized records from Jacmel, this time a fille naturelle who died in 1802 at age 25. So, Marie Elizabeth Gaury would have been born in c.1777. 


The man who declared her death, a "mulatto" tailor named Jean-Baptiste Colon, was baptized in 1756 in Jacmel. We assume that Marie Elizabeth Gaury's mother was a sibling of this man, and therefore her mother was probably the child of Jean-Baptiste Colon and Marie Lemoine. But who was her father, Jean-Louis Gaury? 


Her father was the son of Jean-Baptiste Gory baptized in 1747 (in Bainet), meaning she was a great-granddaughter of Louis Gory, the earliest known Gory in the Bainet area. What surprised us is another link to a different family, the Colon in Jacmel. It also appears like Marie Elizabeth Gaury passed away on the habitation of a Lacour. 

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