Hello,
I am not sure I am posting this in the right place.
Alexandre WANDROBE (VANDROBE and also VARDROBE, WARDROBE) was a trader in Saint-François (Guadeloupe, French West Indies). He passed away in 1810 on the plantation of Mister FRENCH (whose father, John FRENCH, was born in Galway).
https://www.geneanet.org/registres/view/361206/1According to his death record, he was a native of Scotland in England (I guess that the officer meant in Great Britain).
He was a widower.
His wife died on November 2d 1807 (same place).
https://www.geneanet.org/registres/view/363115/26Suzanne Marie CLARK, a native of Pilley, "province" of Pudamtpton, England. She was about 39 years old.
The register is a copy
Where is Pilley ? It is the same place as this one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilley,_Hampshire ?
Alexander WANDROBE gave her freedom to a slave called Théotisse (also Théotiste), probably in 1793. Her son Jean Baptiste got baptized on July 19th 1793 and the record mentions his manumission three days earlier. In the 1797 census, Theotiste LIBERAL is a steamstress and lives with her three sons and a servant in the village center.
28/JUL/1788 baptism record of Marie Léone, daughter of Christine
https://www.geneanet.org/registres/view/359375/3Godfather Alexandre WARDROBE, major de la place et négociant de la ville de Roseau île Dominique (Roseau in Dominica).
Godmother Marie Léone LIBERAL (she is also Jean Baptiste's godmother). Marie Léone LIBERAL is the daughter of André LIBERAL, a trader from Bayonne.
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-126win?view=textThe Charles Winstone letterbook, 1777-1786, contains the business correspondence of Winstone, attorney general and planter in Dominica during and after the American Revolution.
In the list of recipients of letters : Alexander WARDROBE
Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825books.google.fr › books
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David Dobson · 1984 · Affichage d'extraits
TROUVÉ À L'INTÉRIEUR – PAGE 118
( RD5.227.363 ) WARDROBE JOHN Last will and testament of John Wardrobe , physician in Dominica . ... Christina Wardrobe , a free girl of colour , natural daughter of his brother Alexander Wardrobe , deceased ; John Wardrobe , a free boy ...
Monumental Inscriptions in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, ...books.google.fr › books
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Sir James Balfour Paul · 1915 · Affichage d'extraits
TROUVÉ À L'INTÉRIEUR – PAGE 79
... his son ; Alexander , Jean and Barbara Wardrobe , and Mr. Alexander Wardrobe , Lieutenant in the 43rd Regiment of Foot ... Esquire , and third daughter of Mr. David Wardrobe , died at Roseau in the Island of Dominica 6th May 1811 .
Is there a way to know more about Alexander WARDROBE (from Edinburgh ?) and his wife Suzanna Mary CLARK ?
I wonder if they married in the West Indies or in England.
Thanks for your help.