Registration and Deportation

Abstract

in Normandy and a naturalized British subject, died in Kingston, in the British colony of Jamaica. 1 Lecesne and his multiracial household of two free women of African descent and three mixed-race children had come to Kingston from Port-au-Prince in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1798 at the end of Great Britain's failed military intervention in the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804). In the years leading up to his death, Lecesne, together with his second wife, Charlotte, and their teenage son, Louis Celeste, interacted with a host of church and government authorities and notaries, leaving behind a tortuous paper trail across various archives. On March 5, 1814, Louis Celeste, then approximately fifteen to seventeen years of age, was baptized at the Anglican Church in Kingston (even though his parents were Roman Catholic). 2 8 Registration and Deportation