Thanks Ernest, I didn't think people were still into that anymore. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:55 PM Subject: RE: "cabresse" > Hello Cathy: the French West indian islands had an elaborate set of > designations for people of mixed race, three quarters black, half, one > quarter, one eighth, one sixteenth... amazing as it may sound to modern > ears > [The English islands had similar but fewer categories: mulatto, mustee, > mustefino being some of the more frequent] > Some of the French words (female): negresse, mulatresse, cabresse, and the > rather odd term "chabine". > So in this case I think that "cabresse" is not a place but a racial > designation for a female who was "negro but relatively clear-skinned". The > male equivalent is apprently "capre". > > Ernest M. Wiltshire > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Cathy A. > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Miscellaneous Manumissions Grenada 1766 and 1767 > Mormon Family History Film# 1563254 > page 207, entered 19 Sep 1766....Island of Grenada.....in consideration of > faithful service....he manumits the Cabresse wench called Charlotte.... > > I'm not sure about the meaning of Cabresse, but it could be an island not > far from Trinidad. > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.11/1242 - Release Date: > 1/24/2008 > 8:32 PM > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.11/1243 - Release Date: > 1/25/2008 11:24 AM >

I don't think they ARE - although they certainly WERE. Which, in fact, is what Ernest said.... (Although he omitted the quadroon/octaroon series that may've been more 'popular' on the Mainland.) Gus ----- Original Message ----- From: "Seth L. McPhie" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:15 PM Subject: Re: "cabresse" Thanks Ernest, I didn't think people were still into that anymore. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ernest M. Wiltshire" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:55 PM Subject: RE: "cabresse" > Hello Cathy: the French West indian islands had an elaborate set of > designations for people of mixed race, three quarters black, half, one > quarter, one eighth, one sixteenth... amazing as it may sound to modern > ears > [The English islands had similar but fewer categories: mulatto, mustee, > mustefino being some of the more frequent] > Some of the French words (female): negresse, mulatresse, cabresse, and the > rather odd term "chabine". > So in this case I think that "cabresse" is not a place but a racial > designation for a female who was "negro but relatively clear-skinned". The > male equivalent is apprently "capre". > > Ernest M. Wiltshire > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Cathy A. > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Miscellaneous Manumissions Grenada 1766 and 1767 > Mormon Family History Film# 1563254 > page 207, entered 19 Sep 1766....Island of Grenada.....in consideration of > faithful service....he manumits the Cabresse wench called Charlotte.... > > I'm not sure about the meaning of Cabresse, but it could be an island not > far from Trinidad. > > > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.11/1242 - Release Date: > 1/24/2008 > 8:32 PM > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.11/1243 - Release Date: > 1/25/2008 11:24 AM > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message