Saint-Barthélemy Project Page

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Saint-Barthélemy One Place Study

This is the main page for the One Place Study of Saint-Barthélemy and its people. It focuses on how a few men and women from Saint-Christophe and mainland France survived the harsh environment of the tiny Caribbean Island to not only populate it but have descendants branch out to the rest of the Caribbean, the United States, and return to Europe.

It covers the following:

This profile is part of the Saint-Barthélemy One Place Study.

• Official Website
• Wikidata: Item Q25362, en:Wikipedia
• WikiTree Profiles that link here

Name

Geography

Continent: Caribbean

Country: France

State/Province:Collectivités Françaises d'Outre-Mer

GPS Coordinates: 17.9, -62.833333

Elevation: 42.0 m or 137.8 feet

History

The History of Saint-Barthélemy which details the history of the Island from its "discovery" by Christopher Columbus, French Settlement, Sale to Sweden, Repurchase by France and finally present day.

People

The People of Saint-Barthélemy are comprised mostly of the descendants of the first settlers who were of Breton, Norman, Poitevin, Saintongeais and Angevin lineage. As French citizens, the population speaks French with a French patois spoken in the leeward portion of the Island and a French Créole spoken in the windward side. There is also a small population on the Island that speaks English.

The population is separated into two paroisses (parishes):

Paroisse Sous le Vent Leeward and Paroisse Au Vent Windward

Resources

Archives nationales d'outre-mer

http://anom.archivesnationales.culture.gouv.fr/caomec2/recherche.php?territoire=SAINT-BARTHELEMY

Archives départmentales de la guadeloupe

https://earchives.archivesguadeloupe.fr/archives/search/default/%252A%253A%252A/5

Mémoire St Barth | History of St Barts Island

http://www.memoirestbarth.com/EN/

The Saint-Barth Islander

https://saintbarthislander.com/

Le peuplement de Saint-Barthélemy by Jean Deveau

https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/bshg/1972-n17-18-bshg03539/1044150ar/ https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/bshg/1976-n29-bshg03524/1044048ar/

Swedish Caribbean Colonialism 1784–1878

https://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record:349765

Right now this unoffical project just has one member, me. I am Lynnette Dovy.

Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help.

• Developing guidelines for this project.
• Identifying resources for research.
• Historical research and development of free space pages.
• Making sure that place names are historically correct for ancestors born under French and Swedish rule.
• I am interested in the history of the place and its people, pictures of the different eras and people would help to tell the tale of this interesting place.

This project can use the help of Native French speakers who will be an immense help in translating records, I am can read and understand a little French but some things are very difficult for me.

Will you join me? Please post a comment here on this page, in G2G using the project tag, or send me a private message. Thanks!