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
These estates came in a varity of acreages. Some names are not French, but these families were considered to be a part of that comunity.
Out of some one thousand cocoa estates in 1916 (Franklyn's Year Book 1916) the French Creole holdings were:
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 1.
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 1.
Farfan 1.
de Pompignon 1.
de Meillac 1.
Pantin 1.
Devenish 3.
Knox 1.
de Boehmler 1.
O’Connor 2.
Lezama 1.
Zepero 1.
Wehekind 1.
Herrera 1.
Bernard 1.
Fahay 1.
Peschier 2.
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