John Baquie

Owner of enslaved people in St Andrew, Jamaica, in his own right and in right of his wife.

1. Jean Rose Joseph Baquie, son of Jean Pierre Baquie of the parish of Notre Dame de Bon Port, St. Pierre, Martinique and his wife Rose Elizabeth nee Blanchard. A minor in 1810 when he married Catherine Victoire Regnier at a Catholic ceremony in Kingston. Catherine, of the parish of Notre Dame of the Assumption in Torbeck, in the plain of les Cayes du fond, southern part of St. Domingue, was also a minor at the wedding. They had five children: Catherine Caroline (1813-1832), Charles George Edouard (1816-), Catherine Francoise Ysabelle (1819-), Edward Regnier Hampden (1821-), William Mortimer (1824-1827).

2. Initiated into the Montego Bay Masonic Lodge in 1830, age 40, "Artist", resident in Kingston.

1. 'Families from Roman Catholic Registers', http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/c/C_b1.htm.

2. Ancestry.com, England, United Grand Lodge of England Freemason Membership Registers, 1751-1921 [database online].

We are grateful to Jim Brennan for his assistance with compiling this entry.