Editing Cocoa panyols (section)

== A mixture of Amerindian, European, and African ancestry ==

The Panyol identity is a result of encounters between Europeans, Africans and Indigenous Amerindians in Trinidad. Families of African and Amerindian descent are recorded as far back as 1841<ref name="Trinbagopan">{{Cite web|url=http://www.trinbagopan.com/Townsandvillages/Diegomartin.html|title=TRINBAGOPAN.COM - DIEGO MARTIN|website=www.trinbagopan.com|access-date=2016-08-19}}</ref> within the Cocoa Estates Community. The Panyols were part of the Cedula of Populations, and included workers attracted from Venezuela after the 1838 Abolition of Slavery, for labour within the cocoa industry. [[Migrant worker|Migrants]] from Venezuela settled and intermarried, in particular in Diego Martin with Africans of Sierra Leonese descent, and with that community formed an integral part of the Estate Lands settlers in that Region. Among the larger families of their descendants today are the Emmanuel, Herrera, Lara, Tardieu, George, Felix, Hospedales and Thomas families of Maraval, [[Paramin]] and Diego Martin. They became an integral part of the Cocoa Farms Estate owners and settled many of the lands and regions in Maraval, Paramin, Lopinot, St. Ann's, and Diego Martin. The name 'panyol' comes from the ''[[French-based creole languages|patois]]'' word for [[Spanish people|Spanish]], ''espagnol'', and the Spanish word ''español'', and reflects the historical association between the group and the cultivation of [[Cacao bean|cacao]] in [[Trinidad]].