Saint Martin Genealogy

France Caribbean  Saint Martin

Guide to Saint Martin ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

St-Martin. Overseas collectivity of France. Island of the east West Indies in the Leeward Island group east of the British Virgin Islands and north northwest of Saint Kitts, on the northeast edge of the Caribbean Sea. The northern half of the island is a dependency of the French Department of Guadeloupe. See the CIA World Factbook at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/rn.html.



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Saint Martin/Sint Maarten. The northern 60% of the island of Saint Martin is a part of the French Antilles (of France). The southern 40% of the island of Sint Maarten was formerly part of the Netherlands Antilles, since 2010 a constituent country of the Netherlands.

Jurisdictions
The Netherlands built a colony 1631, but French and British settlements also built up. Spain captured the island in 1633, but sailed away in 1648. The Netherlands and France split the island in 1648. The French-Netherlands border on the island was contested and changed 16 times between 1648 and 1816.

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