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Cocoa estate. Watercolour © Peter Shim.
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The Cocoa Economy in Trinidad
The Inca regarded cocoa as a drink of the gods, and it was reserved for the high nobility of this empire that once existed in the cloudy mountaintops of the Andes.
South America’s great jungles with their vast river systems of the Orinoco and the Amazon are the true home of the ‘Golden Bean’.
In Trinidad, cocoa has been cultivated since Spanish times, with varying degrees of success. After the abolition of slavery and the collapse of the French planters’ cane economy, the planters turned to cocoa cultivation so as to save the day. In the 1840s, when the nearly bankrupt planters, who were by now in their second generation, moved deeper into the valleys of the Northern Range, Grand Couva and the Montserrat Hills, cocoa was only moderately successful.
But little did those ‘cocoa pioneers’ know how right their timing was! Within another decade cocoa became a staple in Trinidad’s export market. Cocoa is a different crop than sugar: whereas cane is only viable with vast acreages, people with small plots of land were able to participate in cocoa cultivation.
The effect this had on the structure of the society was very positive: the middle classes of all races became if not wealthy but really very comfortable. Country people, the Hispanic-Amerindian population, also benefitted from the cocoa economy, clearing the forest and cultivating with loving care the cocoa fields.
The cocoa industry in these islands played a key part in the socio-economic development between the 1860s and the 1920s. It was driven by the manufacture of eating chocolate which had been introduced by the Cadbury Brothers in Great Britain, as well as by technological advancements made in the production of cocoa as a drink.
The industrial revolution and the emergence of Europe’s middle class with its predilection for the ‘finer things of life’, served to create a very large market for cocoa and chocolate. For nearly three-quarters of a century, the Afro-Franco creole culture, together with its older ‘cocoa pagnol’ cousinage, boomed. Many small and medium businesses blossomed as a result of exporting cocoa and importing and distributing goods. Many families of the coloured lower and middle classes were able to own small cocoa estates, live comfortably, educate their children, and maintain the values and morals of that respectability so vital in colonial life in those years. In fact, the cocoa boom is what is referred to as the ‘good old days’, the longtime days of the collective memory of Trinidad as it has come down to us over the years.
Hon. Arthur Hamilton Gordon C.M.G., who was governor of Trinidad from 1866 to 1870, encouraged the opening up of crown lands for the cultivation of cocoa. As much as two thirds of the land were utilised, and by the 1870s, cocoa exports exceeded that of sugar. By 1884, with the depression of sugar releasing land, labour and capital, cocoa development increased in profitability.
In Port-of-Spain and the other main towns, development became increasingly apparent. New neighbourhoods came into existence. One could even say that the pretty little gingerbread houses of Woodbrook, Belmont, in San Fernando south of the Paradise cemetery, moving towards Rushworth Street, at St. Joseph and in Arima came about as the result of the ‘Golden Bean’.
The ‘cocoa pagnols’ were in fact the pioneers of the industry. They established the estates in two ways: one approach was for a family to acquire crown lands, fell the trees and plant the cocoa. Upon maturing of the trees, the family would sell the estate at a good profit, and go to repeat the process somewhere else. In so doing, they were making a small fortune over two or three genereations.
The other approach for plantations to be established was through the contract system. These contracts would last about five or seven years, with an agreement made by the owner with peasant families to develop an area of forest into a plantation. The family had free usage of the land, with the stipulation to plant and care for a certain amount of cocoa trees per acre, and plant and sell their own market garden crops. When the trees reach maturity, the owner would take over the land and paid an agreed amount for each bearing cocoa tree to the family.
Cocoa served to develop Trinidad in those years in a variety of ways. New villages came into existence, with schools, churches, chapels, masonic lodges and friendly societies, post offices and warden’s offices, markets and shops. Old towns like Arima and Sangre Grande, Princes Town and San Fernando became active, busy and prosperous. The island’s population moved out of the original centres of settlement which had formed after emancipation. There was prosperity in the countryside. A new verve in the folk arts of the patois-speaking people expressed itself in dance and song. For the first time, it became possible for people of all races and combinations of races, to enjoy the benefits of the economy.
Historical and Statistical View of the Island of Trinidad
This excerpt from Daniel Hart was written in 1890
COCOA
The principal articles of produce exported are sugar, cocoa, coffee, rum, molasses, and cotton. Indigo is also exported, but not raised in the island; it is brought from Venezuela for exportation, but in 1783, there were plantations and manufacturers of the article established in the island. The number of sugar estates does not exceed from 152 to 155, and those of cocoa and coffee, 700. The total extent of land under cultivation is as follows:—canes, 36,739 acres; cocoa and coffee, 14,238 acres; provisions, 9,914 acres; pasture, 7,356 acres. Total, 67,247 acres.
The correct name of the cocoa is ‘cacao’. The cultivation of cocoa, with the exception of a small quantity grown in the island of Grenada, is peculiar as an article of British production to Trinidad. With the exception just mentioned, Trinidad is the only colony throughout the wide extent of the British Colonial Empire producing the materials for this wholesome and palatable beverage. In 1827, the number of cocoa trees amounted to 3,091,945, and the quantity exported that year was 3,696,144, valued according to official returns at £57,851. The value of each tree being then taken at two dollars, or eight shillings and four-pence.
After 1827, a sudden depression in the price of the article reduced the cocoa proprietors, at once and without warning, from a state of affluence to one of comparative—nay, in many cases, real—destitution. For the last ten years, however, the article has maintained a fair and remunerative price. The culture of cocoa is the only one of our Tropical productions at all adapted to the constitution of Europeans. The cocoa tree itself of some 20 feet in height, and affording a grateful shade from the blaze of the sun, is again shaded in its turn by the bois immortel, whose protecting services have justly obtained for it among the South Americans the appellation of La Madre del Cacao. The weeding of the soil, picking of the pods, husking them, and carrying the produce to the drying house; in short, the whole of the agricultural operations and all but the last stage of the manufacturing process is carried on under this impervious and ever verdant canopy; the air gently agitated and refreshed by the river or mountain stream, upon whose vegas or banks these plantations are invariably established.
Here, and here only, the European may measure his strength with the descendants of the Africans and derive direct from the soil without the intervention of the latter, the subsistence which in every other kind of agricultural pursuits seems denied him by his own physical exertions. Under the double shade of the cocoa tree and the Madre del Cacao, the European feels himself as in his native climate. By official returns made in 1842, there were 182 small plantations having from 100 to 500 trees; 147 having from 500 to 1,000 trees, and 268 having from 1,000 to 5,000 trees; 55 having from 5,000 to 10,000 trees; 29 having from 10,000 to 20,000 trees; 28 having from 20,000 to 50,000 trees, and I above 50,000, making a total of 710. Upon a general average, each cocoa tree ought to yield annually two and a half pounds net of cocoa. The distance at which cocoa is planted in this island differs from four to five varas. I have taken the latter as the basis of my calculations. At that distance, there are about 800 trees in a quarrée, which is the old Spanish measurement of 3.1-5 English acres.
Consequently, 40,000 trees occupy fifty quarrées, and the average yield bring something near 2 ½ lbs. per tree, 22 fanegas per 1,000 trees, and $12 (with few exceptions) to be the highest price obtained in the market in 1865. Pruning is an essential operation. Five years would be sufficient to intervene between the pruning; and on an estate of 40,000 trees, I would do it by using the knife to 8,000 trees only in one year, and continue at such rate until the whole shall have been pruned-to re-commence again by the first 8,000 trees. Forty-eight dollars is put down to be expended in that operation, not that the whole of that amount would be expended (for the pruning should be light), but because in that sum is included the cleaning of trees from moss, parasites, ants, and guatepajaro—a work which, though strongly recommended to both men and women (for on many estates picking is performed by women) employed in picking pods, it is, nevertheless, very imperfectly done, or not done at all.
Hence, at the proper season, which is immediately after the December crop, say, in March and April, a skilful gang should be employed to trim and clean the 8,000 trees apportioned for the season. The expenses and net revenue of cocoa estates are subject to variation, according to extent and locality:—an estate of 30,000 trees requiring almost the same establishment as one of 40 or 50,000—hence the increase or decrease of the net revenue and cost per bag of cocoa on different estates. The amount paid for cutlassing 100 trees varies from 30 to 60 cents. Some estates in the quarter of Maracas, not having labourers located on the property, are in the habit of cutlassing their estates by ‘gallapa’, a system much preferred by small proprietors, though it raises the expense to the ruinous amount of $1 20 per 100 trees. The 2 ½ lbs. that I have put down as the yield which each tree in the present imperfect state of cultivation can produce; but I am quite certain that with increased care and attention, a cocoa tree at 13 feet apart can be made to yield double that quantity. As a proof, on the estate of Mr. Victoriano Gomez, in the Ward of Maracas, there are 200 trees planted at 22 feet apart that yielded 6 lbs. per tree.
A quarrée planted at that distance holds 288 trees, giving a total of 2,128 lbs. At 13 feet, a quarrée, as already stated, contains 800 trees, at 2 ½ lbs. per tree gives 2,000 lbs—a difference of 128 lbs. in favour of wide planting. But is wide planting more profitable? The following particulars will show. Cocoa planted at 22 feet apart require 139 quarrées for 40,000 trees, at 6 lbs. per tree would give 24,000 lbs.; 139 quarrées planted at 13 feet apart would contain 111,400 trees, which, at 2 ½ lbs. per tree is 278,000 lbs.; planted at 22 feet in 50 quarrées there are 14,400 at 6 lbs. is 86,400; at 13 feet, there are 40,000 trees, which, at 2 ½ lbs. will give 100,000 lbs. Difference in favour of narrow planting in 50 quarrées, 13,000 lbs. or 123 ½ fanegas, which, at $12, would give a total profit of $1,480. In addition to the foregoing remarks, it is necessary to state, that on every well-regulated cocoa estate, there should be a nursery of cocoa trees of the best quality, in order to supply ‘fallos’ or missing trees. The following is a statement of the expenses of a cocoa estate of 40,000 trees, and cost per fanega (110 lbs.) or bag:—
It is worthy of remark that a cocoa estate by the planting of provisions and the raising of Stock ought to considerably tend to decrease the expenses above given, because the labourers are only required to pick twice in the year:—June and December. Each estate of the size herein given should also be provided with 8 or 10 good donkeys for crooking, and 25 good steady labourers would be sufficient to carry on the working of an estate of 40,000 trees. It is necessary, however, to state that for the last 3 or 4 years cocoa has been disposed of in the London Market from 65s., 70s., 80s., 90s. and as high as 110s. per cwt., nor has it been under nine dollars in the Trinidad Market. Indeed as much as 13 dollars the fanega (110 lbs.) has been paid, hence the net annual income should be much more than is herein given. There is however, a want of energy on the part of the cocoa planters in regard to planting provisions and the rear of stock. It is, at the same time, just to remark that they labour under great difficulties in the way of procuring labourers. A Negro can live for 24 hours on a sugar cane. Hence, he would rather work on a sugar estate for one shilling a day than for two shillings on a cocoa estate. In former years when the price of cocoa was low, little or no attention was paid to the cultivation; the increase of price has, however, acted as a real stimulus to the planters of the article, and greater attention is now paid both to the cultivation and to the curing and preparing of the article.
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| Santa Cruz, Trinidad. Originally the property and residence of Don Antonio Gomez, Senior Judge at the time of Governor Sir Ralph Woodford, 1813 to 1828. La Pastora was later acquired by Hippolyte Borde, Esq. This picture was originally published in J.H. Collens’ “A Guide to Trinidad” and was redrawn by Peter Shim in 1987, © Paria Publishing Co. Ltd. |
The largest cocoa estate in the island is the ‘La Pastora’, situated in the Ward of Santa Cruz, and belonging to Mr. H. Borde. On this estate there are 50,000 trees, but this estate, like others, in 1837 (a year also that the cocoa planter laboured under very great disadvantages for the want of labour) only yielded a crop of 70,200 lbs. In the year 1727, the cocoa trees were greatly injured by the severity of the north wind—a disaster which the priests represented as a judgement upon the inhabitants for their enormity in refusing the payment of tithes. Alcedo relates this ridiculous story—‘The production of the greatest value in this island’, he says, ‘is the cocoa which from its fine quality, is everywhere in request, in preference to that of Caracas, and the crops were even bought up before they were gathered, so that the person to whom they belonged refused to pay their tenths to the clergy, and strange to say, that, as it should seem, Heaven in chastisement of their covetousness had entirely deprived them of this means of emolument in as much as, since the year 1727, the whole of their crop have turned out fruitless and barren, with the exception of one that belonged to a certain man named Robles, who had continued to pay his tithes and whose estate is the only one in which that production is now furnished.’ Unfortunately for the theory of the monks, and the faith of Alcedo, the crops of cocoa have been, and I hope they ever will be, exuberant since Trinidad has been cultivated, as the tables of exports herein given fully proves. It is worthy of remark that the ‘Robles’ mentioned by Alcedo was the father of Christoval de Robles, who inherited from his father the San Antonio and Santa Catalina estates in the Ward of Santa Cruz.
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| A lovely old cocoa tree (from: http://sweetriot.com/riot/cacao-fun/cacao-story/) |
Cocoa, the Golden Bean
Cocoa and the Second Frontier (1870-1920)
by Bridget Brereton
from: The Book of Trinidad
Trinidad was first opened up for plantation development and large-scale settlement in the 1780’s with the influx of French speaking immigrants after the Cedula for Population of 1783 was promulgated. (There were 1,093 European French people in Trinidad and 2,925 French speaking Afro/French people in Trinidad in 1797. The total 'Free' population was 7, 536, enslaved Africans 28,000) The first phase of rapid development—the first frontier—was dominated by the expansion of sugar production and could be said to have lasted from the 1780’s to the 1820’s. Yet, even by the 1830’s, Trinidad was still an undeveloped country. Vast amounts of potentially fertile land were still untouched by human enterprise. In 1838, only some 43,000 acres were cultivated out of a total acreage of 1.25 million. Much of the island was still in the hands of the Crown and under its original forest cover. Only a fairly narrow band of territory stretching west to east from Chaguaramas to Arima and north to south from Port of Spain to San Fernando was extensively settled and cultivated. The southern half of the island, the north coast and its hills and valleys, the whole of the east coast and much of Central Trinidad were virtually untouched and unpopulated. Trinidad was still a frontier colony by the middle decades of the nineteenth century. (In 1838, at emancipation, the population was:
Whites………………………………………..4,326
Free Black and people of Colour…............. 16,412
Carib………………………………………… 727
Slaves………………………………………22,436
Total 49,721)
The second phase of internal colonisation of the island began around 1870 and was associated above all with the expansion of cocoa, though later on (after 1910) the development of the oil industry was also important especially for the southern half of the island. But it was cocoa which dominated the second frontier; settlement and population followed the cocoa trees into the newly opened up districts.
Cocoa is indigenous to the New World—it was the Aztecs’ chocolate, Moctezuma’s favourite drink—and it had always been cultivated in Spanish Trinidad. By around 1850, it was quite insignificant as an export crop. Its take-off into a period of rapid expansion can be dated to around 1870. As eating chocolate, and cocoa as a beverage, became items of mass consumption in the industrialised countries, demand for cocoa in Europe and North America expanded tremendously; this was the most important single reason for the expansion of cocoa in Trinidad.
Locally, the opening up of Crown lands through a change of government policy in the late 1860’s and the gradual improvement of internal communications after 1870 (roads, railways, bridges) had the effect of removing serious obstacles to the progress of settlement and cultivation. Capital, labour, and some land became available in the years between 1884 and 1903 because of the sugar depression in that period. For instance, workers retrenched by the sugar estates might enter cocoa as wage labourers or as peasant growers, money received through sale of small, marginal sugar estates to big firms could be invested in the establishment of cocoa plantations, and in some cases, abandoned sugar land could be switched to cocoa. Since the establishment of a modest cocoa estate did not require a massive outlay of capital (unlike sugar), many local families could mobilise their personal resources and finance the gradual building-up of a cocoa property.
While the market situation remained favourable, therefore, and it did right up to 1920, all the ingredients for a rapid expansion of production were present. Exports had averaged 8 million lbs. a year in 1871-80; by the decade 1911-20 they averaged 56.3 million, a seven-fold increase. By the turn of the century, cocoa had overtaken sugar as Trinidad’s most valuable export; King Sugar had been dethroned.
The new King Cocoa, during his short ascendancy, profoundly influenced many aspects of Trinidad’s social and economic development. Previously inaccessible areas which had been barely populated at all were opened up to cultivation and settlement, especially the valleys of the northern range, the country between Sangre Grande and the east coast, and parts of central Trinidad and the deep south. New villages sprang into life, with their churches and chapels, schools, lodges and friendly societies, post offices and warden’s offices, markets and shops. Old towns like Arima took on a new lease of life as cocoa marketing centres. The population spread out from the original centres of settlement along the Eastern Main Road to Arima and from Port of Spain to San Fernando. People of all races were involved in this movement:—the Creole blacks, the peons who had been the first pioneers of cocoa, the African and West Indian immigrants, the ex-indentured after 1870.
Cocoa, however, was never exclusively an estate crop. Thousands of peasants of all races cultivated the cocoa trees as contractors (raising trees on land belonging to estates) and as small producers on their own land. Cocoa contributed very significantly to the growth and prosperity of Trinidad’s peasantry, and these small farmers created new settlements and new social and cultural institutions all over the country. To take just one example:—parang and the culture associated with it are inseparable from the cocoa peasantry. As cocoa prospered, some of the profits filtered down to the labourers and small producers, and many of them were able to educate their children, contributing to the growth of the middle class and the general spread of literacy and modernisation.
King Cocoa fell, in his turn, in the 1920’s and 1930’s; but not before he had played a key role in opening up the island, strengthening its economy and enriching its social and cultural development.
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San Juan Estate, Gran Couva.
Country residence of Francis Agostini, ca. 1900.
Illustrated by Peter Shim from a photograph by Hélène Farfan.
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Excerpt from the List of Trinidad Cocoa Estates
in C.B. Franklin’s Year Book 1916
Arima Ward Union
Mon Repos, La Reunion
Hrs L. Centeno
L’Espérance, Verdant Vale
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Willow Vale,
Trinidad Cocoa and Coffee Co. Ltd.
St. Patrick, La Razón,
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San Mateo, Cedar Hill
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Mount Pleasant
Hrs. de Lapeyrouse
El Retiro
Hrs. De Martini
Mon Plaisir
F.J. Le Blanc
La Compensación
S. De Gannes
San José
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Buena Vista
Hrs. Jules Cipriani
La Victoria, Belle Vue
Wm. E. Foster
Prospect
J.S. McDavid
Oropuna
H. Machado
San Antonio
A.M. Tinoco
San José
A. Harry
Torrecilla
M.S. Strickland
Santa Rosa
Hrs. C.G. Seheult
Sin Verquenza, Hermitage
F.A. Neubauer
La Ressource
Robt. J. Miller
Mausica & Trianon
Hrs. C. Cleaver
Valley Vale
F.W. Meyer
San Francisco, Orange Hill
C. Leotaud
El Ricon, San Felipe
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Mon Repos
C.O. & L. Robertson
La Retraîte
L. Hamel-Smith
S. Carlos de Caigual
West Indian
St. Patience
Trustees
Agua Santa
C. Blasini
St. Adelaide
L.A. Riley
Spring Bank, El Socorro
Gordon Grant & Co.
La Solidad, Prosperidad
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Sta. Isabella, La Soledad
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Santa Crux
S. Bercon
Felipé
C. Pamphile
San Carlos
C. Stollmeyer
Candelaria
L.A. Sellier
Experanza
A.D. Brown
Santa Cruz
Jos. N. Maingot
San Antonio
Heirs of Garcia
Santa Maria, Glencora, Perseverance
F.A. Neubauer
Piedmonte, La Fertilité
Paul Caracciolo
El Carmen, Monte Cristo
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Jouvence, Santa Barbara
Hrs. of Hospedales
El Combata, La Concepcion
H.J. Delisle
La Horqueta
Hrs. Joa. Ribeiro
Belle Vue
J.R. Metivier
Jouvence
P. Stevens
San Rafael
A. Angeron
Los Armadillos
C. Faustino
Sta. Catalina
Thos. Lacon
Santa Rosalia, San Gregorio
Manuel Luces
San Rafael
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Prosperite
Hrs. C. de Verteuil
Havering
W. Carpenter
Laventille
Heirs of Llanos
Monte Cristo
Paul Caracciolo
San Jose
M.J. Roach
L’Agnesia
Dr. R.C. Bennett
New Providence
G. de Verteuil
La Cruz
P.R. Pierre
La Soledad
Carmona
El Regalo, La Corona
A. Giuseppe
La India
M.A. Vignale
La Esmeralda
George F. Huggins
Arizona
H. Monceaux
San Bartolo, Providence
H.K. Viera
Murray’s Vale
Henry E. Murray
Santa Maria
Hy. Court
New Providence, Val de Cacao
Alb. H. Cipriani
La Romancia
Dr. A.H. Burt
La Marouna
Heirs of J. Payne
C. Stollmeyer
San Juan J.A. Aquie
Paradise
C. Luces
Santa Maria, Spring
W.S.E. Barnardo
Dios Me Ayudes
A. de Matas
La Ventura, Good Hope
Alfred Mendes
La Providencia
M.D. Smith
El Carmen, San Antonio
Heirs C. Lange
La Concepcion, San Juan
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El Carmen
A.V. Stollmeyer
Prospect
Madoo Lala
Santa Rosa
Chas. Cleaver
Spring Hill
F.W. Meyer
La Prospérité, San Antonio
N. Cowlessar
San Antonio
T. de Soublette
Melton
R. Hamlyn Nott
Brothers
F. Léotaud
El Cedro
M. Quesnel
Naranjo
Hrs. J.A. Rapsey
San Frederico & La Violeta
C.O. & L.N. Robertson
La Trinidad
S. Thannoo
Mon Bonheur, Providence
G.R. Alston & Co.
San Expedito
A. Albert
Mt. Hope
H. Josse Delisle
San Salvador
A.C. de Verteuil
Perseverance
C. de Verteuil & J D’Abadie
La Conformidad
A. Gómez
Buena Vista
M. Martinez
La Gloria
Jos. de Verteuil
St. Ann
P. Pampellonne
Prosperidad
A. de Verteuil
Talparo
T.H. Warner
Spring
W.E.S. Barnardo
Santa Ignalis, Santa Barbara
C.A. Pollonais
Spring & Armonica
Hrs. Edgard Borde
Above: PERSEVERANCE ESTATE HOUSE
Perseverance estate house at Moka in Maraval, was the home of Jeanne Besson, born 1822, and her husband Louis Latour. Jeanne was the daughter of François Besson III and Marie France Olivière. She took into her home the children of her husband, Louis Latour, and Léonide (Lorraine) Besson, as teenagers, upon the death of their mother who may have been a person of colour. It is likely that Louis Latour and Léonide, also called Lorraine Besson may have had a plaçage relationship over several years. The children’s names were Frederick Louis Latour and Louise Ultima Latour. I have not been able to discover the parentage of their mother. In her will she leaves them, as teenagers, in the care of their father, Louis Latour. Louise Ultima Latour married Jules Cipriani, also known as Cipriani de Rose or Jules De Rose Cipriani, reputed son of Léon Cipriani and a woman of colour by the name of Rosalie Labastide, (she may have been a relative of the Bessons and de la Bastides). One of their children was Michael, “Mikey” Cipriani, sportsman and pioneer aviator. Jules de Rose Ciprianis’ sister, Marie Alix, married Charles James Milne.This house and its extensive grounds, gardens and cocoa fields was eventually bought by Albert Henry Cipriani (Baba), son of Albert Henry Cipriani, brother of Emmanuel Cipriani, who had married Lucy Ganteaume, whose mother was Theresa Adèle Besson, the second wife of Pierre Alphonse Ganteaume.Albert Henry’s (Baba) brother was Captain Arthur Andrew Cipriani, several times Mayor of Port-of-Spain. He was a labour leader, and champion of the poor. Perseverance estate passed into the hands of the Battoo family and was used as a music hall for several years, until it was eventually abandoned, and destroyed by fire in the 1980s.
Illustrated by Peter Shim after an old photograph. © Paria Publishing Co. Ltd.
CEDROS WARD UNION
Annandale, Buenos Ayres, St. Michael
L.F. Ambard
La Ressource, Providencia
West Indian Estate Co.
Sta. Barbara, El Pilar
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Bon Aventure, Santa Isabella
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L’Union, La Stella and Buena Vista
Edwin Clapham
St. Joseph
Mrs. Solano
San Francisco
Hrs. Mejias
Villanueva
Malze Bros.
Erin
G.F. Huggins
El Perial, San José and El Cocal
Carmen Anduze
La Victoria
G.F. Huggins
Good Hope
Donatien Gervais
Sta. Maria
A.S. Kernahan
Denmark
Chs. Ker (Trustee)
Enterprise
Geo. Grant
S. John
A. Attin
Industry
The Industry Est. Corporation of N.Y.
Monte Cristo
L. Tanwing & Sona
Penbury
E.C. Skinner
El Puerto
P. Collington
COUVA & CHAGUANAS WARD UNION
Cocoloco
J.B. Todd
Montrose
Dr. A.P. Lange
Rich Ville
A.B. Richards
Ednavale
Geo. Bancroft
Edinburgh
Hrs. S. Henderson
Esmeralda
Gordon, Grant & Co.
Sta. Emilia
Hrs. of Joyce Ltd.
La Providencia
Fritz L. Boos
Henksdale
Hrs. Hendrickson
Félicité
Smith Bros. & Co.
Souvenir
A.V.M. Thavenot
St. Marie
Hrs. de Boissière
Roupell Park
Dan McD. Hart
Bon Aventure
Hrs. C. Robertson
St. Jules
Jas. Stewart
Murrayvale
Onnarey & Robertson
Eva’s Hope
Heirs Langton
Waterloo
Kleinworth, Sons & Co.
Pays Perdu, S. Madeleine
J.R. Tom
Målaga
Heirs H. Stone
St. Margaret
J.W. Fletcher
Sta. Philippa, Hillandale
W. Mills
Orange Field
Beatrix A. Lange
La Soledad & Sta. Isabella
E.W. Savary
Uquire, Las Lomas & Elibox
E.L. Agostini
Palmiste
Miss Léotaud
Tcarridonum
Carr Brothers
Mes Voeux & Bon Accord
Heirs of Smith and Langton
Friendship Hall
Black and McLeod
St. Charles & Esperanza
Heirs Hoadley
Verdant Vale
Heirs Penco
Philippine
Hrs. L. Preau
Balmain
J.P. Bain
La Rosalia
J.A. Ortiz
Belle Vue
Boodhin
Peking
Numa Nathaniel
Williams
Nuseban
Good Luck
Satuarine
Enaree
Beddoo Bhagat
Sitar-i-Hind
E.M. Madoo
Hope
E.V. Downey
Carolina
Agostini and McLelland
Prospect
F. Isaac
Perseverance
J.E. Bonneterre
Don José
F.A. Gómez
The Hope & St. Luke
Dyett & Grant
Bon Aventure & Mon Plaisir
Heirs W.C. Dyett
St. Vale, Lee Vale
C.P. Lee
L’Argenville
Dr. A.B. Duprey
DIEGO MARIN & ST. ANN’S WARD UNION
La Chaguaramas & Mt. Hazard
Chaguaramas Estates, Limited
Crystal Stream
Heirs of J. Dickson
Fond Palmiste & St. Sophie
J.C. Benlisa
St. Lucien
Croney & Co.
Richplain
Enroll & A. Artfield
Les Fontaines, La Ressource, Bagatelle
Michael P. Maillard
Cedar Hill
F. & J.A. Jones
Hermitage, Esperanza
Anna Lange
La Puerta
Dr. J.L. Senior
Tucker Valley
T’dad Ltd. & Finance
Haleland Park
Co., Ltd.
Moka
W.G. Gordon
Val de Oro
J.C. Benlisa
Mon Espoir, Cascabelle & Vineyard
Trinidad Produce Company
Belle Vue
L.E. Bernard
River and Cascade
Trinidad Government
Mt. Carmel
Pitman & de Suze
San Diego & Victoria
George G. Brown
La Ressource
Catherine R. Rist
La Ressource
Jean Isidore
San Carlos
W.T. Campbell
Perseverance
L.S. Disney
St. Emelia
L.D. Alcazar
Mon Repos
Edgar Borde
Covigne
E. Hamel-Smith
St. John & Grand Fond
Madeleine Joseph
Jamson
J.A. Brown
La Fromage
Mrs. C Fitzwilliam
Mount Catherine
Louis Julien
La Oferta
André de Verteuil
La Sagesse, Zig Zag
Hrs. J.E. Coryat
Santa Barbara, Prospéridad
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Santa Carolina, La Madeleine
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La Pastora, Tranquilidad
J. Ribeiro
Maracas Bay
Hrs. de Lapeyrouse
Paradis Terrestre, Mon Repos
J. Penco
Perd Mon Temps
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San Antonio
Sir J. Needham
Soconusco
Wilsons, Limited
El Castillo
S. Bissessar
San Patricio
François Tomasi
El Carmen
Henrietta Kavanagh
La Soledad (Guanal)
J.S. de Bermudez
Concordia
Marie Duprey
Brasso Toco
J.C. Poyer
North Laventille Morvant
Gordon Grant & Co. Ltd.
South Laventille
Earl of Dundonald
Beau Séjour
J.A. Antoni
San Miguel
Emma Dreyfus
San Antonio & El Corosal
Joaquim Webster
Providence
Louis de Gannes
San Carlos
Mrs. Jul. Borde
L’Eugenie
G. Ferrari
Union
F. D’Heureux
Belle Air
Heirs of B. Mussio
Hermitage
Arthur Cipriani
La Regalada, San Rafael, El Guamal
C.F. Stollmeyer
La Deseada
C.C. Stollmeyer
Mon Valmont, La Fortunée
A.V. Stollmeyer
Clydesdale, El Ordo & Sta. Ann’s
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St. Luce & Mon Desir
Mrs. C. de Verteuil
La Soledad
Smith Bros. & Co.
El Socorro, Concord
F. Herrera
Barataria & Aranjuez
Hrs. J.A. Rapsey
Coblentz
Carlos Rovedas
La Trinidad
Solomon Dreyfus
Belle Fleur
Ed. Manuel
Ste. Marie
H.F. Figeroux
La Ultima
Jos. J. Ribeiro
Champs Fleurs
M.M. Gransaull
Brothersville
Jones Bros.
LA BREA & OROPOUCHE WARD UNION
Alta Gracia
Albert A. Sobrion
Patna
Boodhoosing
Nelson
J.J. McLeod
La India
Partap
S. Martin & S. Philip
Hrs. of Allum
Santa Maria
T. Geddes Grant
Perseverance
C.C. Stollmeyer
El Socorro & El Kola
W.C. Robertson & Others
Canton & Santa Cecilia
Geo F. Huggins
Esperanza
Mrs. Felix Smith
San Francisco & Good Intent
A.M. & R.A. Low
Adventure
J.B. & S. Waith
La Fortunée
De Wolf & Mathison
El Campo
Beatrice Huggins
Pluck
Tennant’s Est. Ltd.
Common & Kingsland
Shadrach Medford
La Siparia, La Tranquilidad
Trinidad Properties Ltd.
Kimberley
Geo. Blake
Cura
John Bleasdell
La Pastora
Smith Bros. & Co.
St. Mary, Paradise
Pierre Bartlett
La Virgin y Tierra Linda
Albert Mendes
Eureka and Cura
E.D. Clarke
Otaheite
Hrs. Clem. Lange
Boa Ventura
Hrs. Joaq. Ribeiro
La Fortunée, Clifton Hill
United Brit. Oilfields
St. Valentine
Harold Fahey
MANZANILLA WARD UNION
La Josephina
F.A. Neubauer
Sta. Estella
General Pacheco
Windermere
Croney & Co.
S. José de Comparo
L.P. Pierre
St. Joseph
Mrs. O. de Gannes
La Concordia, San Antonio
C. Allard
La Union
E. Hernandez
Brooklyn
Percival Stevens
Barcelona
J.B. Robinson
Non Pareil, St. Marie & Santa Rita
E.A. Robinson
Concord
A.P. Maingot
El Reposo
Hrs. C. F. Sellier
St. Privat
Dr. de Gannes
Santa Rita
Geo. Jonson
Errolvale
Thomas Lyder
Perseverance
George McLean
St. Elizabeth
Henry A. Reid
El Palmito
A. Protheroe
St. Joseph
J. Riley
Mt. Taldon
B. Romney
La Mascotte
R. Vignales
St. John
John F. Wallen
Sta. Clara
J. Jacelon
Santa Anna
Ms. C. Kirton
St. Patrick
Heirs of Logan
Montrose
E. Damian
Williamsville
George Williams
El Recuerdo
Murray and Wake
May Vega
Dr. C. F. Lassalle
TACARIGUA & BLANCHISSEUSE Ward Union
Glenside
Commdr. W.H. Coombs, R.N.
Charles Vale
S. Augustin
Redemption
Hrs. B. de Lamarre
St. Michael
Resal Maharaj
Mount St. Benedict
Mayuel de Caigny
Trafford
Marie Holler
Tumbason
Dr. L Lota
Las Cabecerras
Jos. Lota
Santa Barbara, San Pedro
J.F. Alonzo
Santa Isabella
J.M. Blanc
Mamoral
Mrs. L. Johnstone
Magdaline, St. Antoine
F.A.Neubauer
La Guadeloupe, St. Ignes
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El Socorro, La Pastora
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La Rosina, El Manacal
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Concordia, La Florida, Avondale
Windward Islands Estates Co. Inc
San Vincente
Joseph Gomez
La Véronica
Mary L. O’Connor
El Socorro
Margaret Rapsey
San José
Robert de Freitas
Homburg
W. Holler
San José
M.A. Prieto
La Reconaissance
C.J. La Coste
Wardour
Bridget Jardine
Mon Deisr
Berenice Garcia
Santa Basilio, La Soledad
Manoel Alonzo
Mundo Nuevo, Valencia
Max Reimer
La pastora
Gordon, Grant & Co. Ltd.
Algarabo
Heirs of J. Philip
La Soledad
E. Lezama
Montserrat, San Francisco, La Deseada
J.P Zepero
La Realista
Mrs. M.E. Olivieri
Des Consue, La Florida, La Victoria
Wilsons Ltd.
San Francisco
Geo. B. Geoffroy
Santa Ignes, San Joachim
Heirs Nakid
Tierra Nueva
Heirs C. Leotaud
Cautira, Guamal, Hope Well, San Pedro
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Destin
G. De Silva
San Domingo
Josepfita de Léon
La Soledad
Hrs. Of de la Rosa
Gonzales, San Isidoro
Allan McD. Horne
Trafford
Marie Holler
Redemption
Edward Mohipath
Santa Rita
Jos. Reyes
La Soledad
Heirs Reyes
Maracas Valley, San Pedro
Cadbury Brothers
Santa Barbara, La Sombadoura
V.L. Wehekind
San Pedro del Valle
J.B. Garner
Ortinola
Tennants Est. Ltd.
Santa Rita
D. Betancourt
La Providencia, La Fortuna
A.A. Matas
Bickham
Heirs of Wharf
San Lorenzo
Fred Herrera
La Victoria, La Carola
Caroline Borberg
Belle Vue
Dhanoolall
Guiria
Hrs J.V. de León
La Soledad
E. Gonzales
El Retiro
Heirs T.B. Meja
Buena Vista, San Miguel
M.J. de Silva
San Antonio, San Juan, Santa Barbara
Simon B. Pierre
Calcutta
Cadamee
El Reposo, Esperanza
Hrs. S. Castillo
El Discurso
G.T. Brash
La Lucia
E. Gabaira
St. Jena
Xavier Hardy
Providence
Margaret Hunter
San Juan, Rosalia
Edm. Kelly
El Guamo
C.A. Morrison
Santa Lucia
Hrs. José Votor
Canaan
Bennysingh and Rampersadsingh
La Belle View
Hrs. Chinibas
St. Ann’s
Rev. Dr. Maingot
El Choro, St. Helena
Victor Adrien
Laurel Hill
Juliana Bonair
La Soledad
A.A. De Matas
St. Catherine, La Florida
F. De Matas
El Broyo, Santa Margarita
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La Merced, San Pedro
Cadbury Brothers
San Miguel
A.T. Eligon
La Soledad, Williams Field
Fred Herrera
Lorete
A.V.C. Gomez
Toco Ward Union
El Carmen, El Calvario, La Soledad
W.G. Gordon
La Maravilla, Santa Barbara, St. John
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El Toco, Mon Plaisir, Belle Vue
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Susannah, Santa Teresa, St. Luke
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Aragua, St. Pasqual, San Philipe
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Cascabel, La Jalousie, Esperanza
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Woodford Valley
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Cumana
Theresa Campbell
Sans Souci
M.A. Bowen
La Soledad
G.R. Alston & Co.
Buenos Ayres
F.G. Scott
St. Antonio, St. Laurent, La Soledad
Samuel Hosang
La Ardita, La Anicetta
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San Antonio, Belle Vue, San Isidore
L.J. Gransaull
La Palmiste, La Providence
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La Juanita
E. Paisley
Malgretout
Mrs. M. Gransaull
Adventure
Elizabeth A. Hosang
Diamond Field, Orphan, La Victoria
Thomas Hosang
Nola Fana, California, Esperanza
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La Prosperité, Belle Vue
A. Besson
Poor Man’s Progress
McBurnie
