What does the code reveal?

Husband of Marie Angéla David and father of Joseph Reginald Victorien (Angela's father). His own origin is undocumented. At least two of his children are remembered as blue-eyed, suggestive of European ancestry, though eye colour is governed by a handful of genes and is weak evidence of overall ancestry on its own (the same caution applies to grandfather Millen's pale complexion elsewhere in this project). On this basis, half of his theoretical 12.5% share (6.25% of Gérard's genome) is provisionally credited to Europe, and the other half is left unresolved. This is an educated guess, not a documented fact, and it accounts for most of the previously unexplained European gap, so it should be held to a high standard of caveat rather than treated as settled. His unresolved half remains genuinely undirected: unlike Antoinette Cangy (see below), there is no surname or other evidence pointing it toward Africa specifically, so Gérard leans toward Cangy rather than him as the more likely carrier of the maternal African residual.

Wife of Emile Jérome. Earlier speculation based on grandfather Millen's pale appearance suggested she might have been strongly European. However, the measured paternal DNA shows only ~8–9% total European, most of it already accounted for by Galichet and Mongelard. The large paternal Indian surplus (31%) suggests she more likely leaned Indian, consistent with the documented presence of Indian women in early colonial Mauritius.

Wife of Noël Brode Coret. The GEDCOM names her parents (Auguste Coret and Marie Françoise Guillaume), but they supply no meaningful origin or ethnic information, and the branch effectively dead-ends at her. Unlike the Coret–Mongelard line through her husband, where all eight G7 ancestors are identifiable, her own line goes dark. Her theoretical share (6.25%) was originally credited to Europe in full; Gérard has since revised this to a half-European hypothesis. His reasoning: no record shows any other Coret immigrant family arriving in Mauritius, so it's a strong inference that every Coret, including her father Auguste, descends from the single identified patriarch, Antoine Coré, some generations down. Since European women were rare in this colonial society outside separate free communities (such as Mauritius's free Indians), Auguste Coret and, most likely, Marie Françoise Guillaume were themselves probably already only half European rather than fully so, making Marie Ernestine also about half European, half other. Only half her theoretical share, ~3.125%, is now credited to Europe, revising attributed paternal Europe down to ~7.0% (from ~10.15%) against measured ~9%, and whole-genome Europe down to ~19.5% (from ~22.6%). This is an educated guess, not a documented fact, held to the same standard as the Louis Oscar Victorien hypothesis, and arguably resting on a longer inferential chain than the full-European reading it replaces. Her other, non-European half returns to the open, unresolved pool rather than Europe; it is a plausible but uncredited partial candidate for the paternal African plausibility note (previously her full share was, at ~78% coverage, before the revision), though Indian isn't excluded either — an enslaved Indian woman is already the working hypothesis for two other wives in this same line (Marie N, Catherine N), and only a numeric quirk (paternal Indian already has no spare headroom) mildly favours African/Malagasy over Indian for this half.

Father of Marie Angéla David (Angela's paternal grandmother). Family memory (via Angela) holds that Marie Angéla David was "half-white." Since her mother Antoinette Cangy bears a surname rooted in slavery, the European half most likely entered through Joseph Seblin David. This is an educated guess, not fact: "half-white" reflects family perception rather than documented descent, and the surname David is suggestive but not proof of European origin.

Mother of Marie Angéla David. Her surname Cangy is rooted in slavery, indicating she was of enslaved African, Malagasy, or Indian descent — but which, and in what proportions, is not documented. A surname-distribution check found Cangy essentially unique to Mauritius worldwide (~504 bearers, its largest population by far, with only marginal diaspora numbers in France and Australia) — consistent with a name locally coined for someone of enslaved descent, fitting Gérard's recollection that such names were assigned at the 1835 emancipation (though no source confirms this for Cangy specifically). **Reclassified:** her full theoretical share (6.25%) is now credited to Africa outright, rather than left as a leaning — it fits cleanly against the maternal African headroom (attributed 5.75% vs measured ~12.5-13%) and closes most of the remaining African gap. This is an educated guess, not a documented fact, held to the same standard as the Louis Oscar Victorien and Marie Ernestine Coret hypotheses, and should always carry that caveat.