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The ancestors who didn't write the history books.

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Author: Erin

Amateur historian and genealogist with four decades' experience in hunting down ancestors who don't seem to want to be found.
October 7, 2021October 9, 2021Enslaved, Female

Ysabel Parbula Gayarre*

An enslaved girl in the household of Don Luis Gayarre. Born 19 August 1817. Race is recorded as parda. Baptized 9 December […]

October 7, 2021October 9, 2021Enslaved, Female

Gertrudis Gayarre*

An enslaved woman in the household of Don Luis Gayarre. Race is recorded as mulata. Appears in the 1817 baptismal record of […]

October 7, 2021October 9, 2021Female, Free Person of Color

Maria Rosa Garcia*

A free woman of color in thehousehold of Benito Garcia in Spanish Pensacola. Born about 1783 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Benito Garcia was […]

October 7, 2021July 14, 2025Black/Mulatto, Enslaved, Male

Joseph de Villiers

An infant born into slavery in the household of Celeste Tala de Villiers. Born in Pensacola, Florida on 5 March 1841, baptized […]

October 7, 2021July 14, 2025Black/Mulatto, Enslaved, Female

Maria Jacinta Aimee de Villiers

An infant born into slavery in the household of Celeste Tala de Villiers. Born in Pensacola, Florida on 11 September 1842, baptized […]

October 7, 2021October 9, 2021Enslaved, Female

Eufemia Gagnet*

An enslaved girl of color in the household of Doña Maria Felicita Lavalle, the widow Gagnet. Born 20 March 1817. Race is […]

October 7, 2021October 9, 2021Enslaved, Female

Celeste Gagnet*

An enslaved woman in the household of Doña Maria Felicita Lavalle, the widow Gagnet. Race is recorded as negra. Appears in the […]

October 7, 2021February 28, 2023Enslaved, Male

Ygnace de Villiers*

An enslaved man in the household of Colonel Jean Marcos de Villiers. Born around 1819. Race is recorded as mulatto. Bill of […]

October 7, 2021October 9, 2021Enslaved, Female

Sily de Villiers*

An enslaved woman in the household of Captain Jean Marcos Coulon de Villiers. Race is recorded as morena. Appears in the 1819 […]

October 7, 2021October 9, 2021Enslaved, Female

Marie Louise (“Barbé”) de Villiers*

An enslaved woman in the household of Colonel Jean Marcos Coulon de Villiers. Born around 1794. Race is recorded as mulatto. Deed […]

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