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- The earliest record I've seen of this family in Saint-Domingue is their marriage in 1778, though their first child was born about 2 years before they were married. On his marriage record he is named “Sr. Joseph Hacker, maitre tailleur d’habit, resident en cette paroisse, nâtif de Paris, fils lègitime du Sr. Gaspard Hacker, autre tailleur d’habit, resident a Paris et de Benoît Gentils sou epouse, ses pere et mere.”
He is invariably Joseph Hacker except for the death record of one son, where he is named Louis Hacker:
Le vingt douze novembre mil sept cent quatre vingt neuf a été inhumé dans le cimetiere de cette paroisse le corps de Louis Hacker, age de trois ans, fils legitime de Louis Hacker, marchand tailleur, resident en le bourg, et de mademoiselle anne denis son epouse, decede hier au soir en ce bourg. en foi de quoi, nous avons signé le jour et an que des fus . . .
The twelfth of November the year 1789 was buried in the cemetery of this parish the body of Louis Hacker, aged three years, legitimate son of Louis Hacker, merchant tailor, resident in the village, and his wife Anne Denis wife, who died last night in town. In witness whereof, we have signed the day and year that was . . .
This must be Joseph, given his wife. And therefore, I assume that the death refers to the son Joseph who was born three years earlier as well.
Judging by the death of their son Joseph Louis and the baptism of their son Vincent, they moved to Port-au-Prince bet. Nov. 1789 and 1792.
No death record seems to appear in the Port-au-Prince registers. Perhaps his death was recorded in the Croix-des-Bouquets register for 1793, which is missing.
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