Joseph Thomas Comissiong

An unsourced online family tree givens Joseph Thomas Comissiong as born in Grenada in 1781, the son of Domingo Comissiong (or Comissione, a sail maker from Genoa, Italy) and Margaret ("Peggy"). In his will written in 1797 and proved in 1799, Domingo Comissiong bequeathed to his son Joseph Thomas Comissiong and daughters Fanny and Cinderilla[sic], and to Margaret their mother, all his property real and personal "to wit my houses lands messuages tenements and slaves my wharf and the new buldings lately erected" to the four of them share and share alike. Should Margaret marry, the bequest to her is to be replaced with one shilling.

Joseph Thomas Comissiong had eight children with Mary Noel St Hilaire, including Domingo Comissiong (the younger, q.v.). The marriage record of his eldest son Joseph Thomas Comissiong junior, in Stepney, England, in 1850, gives Joseph Thomas senior's profession as sail maker. Joseph Thomas junior at the time was a collector of customs.

According to the same family tree, Joseph Thomas Comissiong senior died in 1852 in Grenada.

'Family Chollet/Chollett/Chollette in USA' by Reynold Chollet, public member tree on Ancestry.com.

Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online].

We are grateful to Stephen Lewis for his assistance with compiling this entry.