Grand-Goave

One must check every nearby or even distant communes when engaging in genealogical research. As an example, we would like to highlight a Bainet man of the 19th century, Cange Alexandre. Born in the 1820s to Cadet Alexandre and Marie Therese Cange, he passed away in 1906. He appears in the Bainet civil registry in the 1860s in the birth records of two of his sons.

According to his death certificate, Cange Alexandre's father was Cadet Alexandre and his mother was named Therese. We were suprised to find to a Grand-Goave record from 1834, in which Cadet Alexandre's wife, Marie Therese Cange, appeared as a godmother to a newborn child of Petionne Geromme Bareaux and Jean Jacque Philippe. Since the borders of the communes of Haiti have changed over time and people in the valley of Bainet and Jacmel sometimes registered their births, marriages or deaths in Grand-Goave, one must be sure to check other parishes, communes, and towns. 

Of course, it is possible that Cadet Alexandre and Marie Therese Cange had nothing to do with the Cange and Alexandre family in the valley of Bainet that we are obsessively pursuing. However, we know their son, Cange Alexandre, lived in the valley of Bainet. His very name points to both his father and his Cange mother, who were both likely born in the early 1800s or late 1700s. Is it possible that Cadet Alexandre was related somehow to our Cherilise Alexandre?