UCL

Highbury

British Guiana

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1827 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Henry Davidson
- 1827 [EY] → Joint owner
Henry Davidson senior

Henry Davidson senior left his share of the Highbury estate to his son Henry under his will proved 23/05/1827. The Slave Registers appear not to distinguish between the two men.

1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Aeneas Barkly

Local secondary material shows Cameron, Davidson and Barkly buying four estates - Dageraad, Sandvoort, St Jan and Dankbaarheid - from the Berbice Association in November 1818, and then dividing them among themselves. Sandvoort was subdivided by the Camerons into Sandvoort and Lochaber, and Highbury reportedly formed from St Jan and Dankbaarheid, although the latter appears to have remained separate until at least 1834.

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 216 (Highbury)
£18,555 2S 3D

Estate Information (3)

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1825
[Name] Highbury  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Highbury situate on the east bank of the River Berbice the property of H. Davidson and A. Barkly this return made by John Cameron attorney. 386 + 22 (13M 9F) - 73 (40M 33F) = 335. [With the exception of a single man, Bianca [sic] aged 39 sold to 'Civil Government of Berbice', all the 'deductions' had died, from large range of attributed causes].

 
T71/442 263-268
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 390(Tot)  
[Name] Highbury  
 

Return of slaves the property of H. Davidson and A. Barkly attached to Plantation Highbury situate on the east bank of the River Berbice this return made by John Cameron attorney. Most of the enslaved people had been purchased from the estate of Donald Ross deceased.

 
T71/443 651-656
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 439(Tot)  
[Name] Highbury  
 

Return of slaves the property of H. Davidson and A. Barkly attached to Plantation Highbury situate on the east bank of the River Berbice this return made by their attorney John Cameron.

 
T71/444 203-210