hi Marcy
I hope this message finds u in great health and spirit. I was just thinking of my greatgrandmother OCTAVIA GACHETTE and thought i should google her and her husband CHARLES GACHETTE...and here i find you searching as well...so maybe we can open some windows in this great house..shall we?
The story passed on by my grandmother and cousin...
We would make trips to Dominica in the 70's&80's to visit relatives.
I know that Charles Gachette originated from LYON his family were in the wine business, he met my GGM in Barbados while she was at Boarding school, she came from a very rich Black Dominican family. When Charles and Octavia eloped he was 35 and she was 19, the family didn't take to well to this marriage as it was thought back then that he was after her inheritance.
In any case he went to prison for some reason I'm not sure exactly why...after this they fled to Trinidad and bought several estates in the Northern range
growing coffee and cocoa, they had 9 children. As a child i remember our family gatherings on the largest estate which seemed like the whole mountain itself...it is called CAPRIATE in Santa Cruz.
Whats ur side of the story, I don't know anything about Graham Gachette
but I am intrigued...
many blessings
Z*
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