UCL

Pln Bushy Park

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Executor
Edward Gibbons

Edward Gibbons registered approximately half the enslaved people on the Bushy Park estate in 1817 as executor of his brother Robert and half as owner. The estate at that time appears to have been divided into two, known as East Side and West Side

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Edward Gibbons

Edward Gibbons registered approximately half the enslaved people on the Bushy Park estate in 1817 as executor of his brother Robert and half as owner. The estate at that time appears to have been divided into two, known as East Side and West Side. It is possible this became Pln Sarah.

1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
Robert Gibbons
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Executor
Edward Gibbons

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 614 (Pln Bushy Park)
£5,512 9S 2D

Notes

Not yet fully reconciled to the 1817 Demerara registration.

Estate Information (8)

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1798
[Name] Bushy Park  
[Crop] Cotton  
 

Plantation no.9 under the sub-heading 'De Mahaicouni a Mahaica' was Bushy Park, proprietaire Tubman, 250 Carreaux C[oton]

 
Carte Generale...Liste des Habitations (1798) https://hdl.handle.net/11245/3.38621
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot) 37(F) 41(M)  
[Name] Bushy Park  
 

Richard Ryan registered 78 enslaved people on Bushy Park in Demerara in 1817 as proprietor: a note says 'Vide Ret. 2359' [which shows him registering a further single enslaved woman as proprietor in his own name, T71/397 B8 2896].

 
T71/397 B3 667
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot) 44(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Bushy Park West Side  
 

Edward Gibbons registered 107 enslaved people on Bushy Park plantation West Side in Demerara in 1817 as atty of the heirs of R. Gibbon.

 
T71/397 B4 1675
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot) 50(F) 60(M)  
[Name] Bushy Park East Side  
 

Edward Gibbons registered 110 enslaved people on Bushy Park East Side in 1817 as proprietor.

 
T71/397 B5 1677
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot) 45(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Bushy Park  
 

W. Chichester atty. of executor.

 
T71/413 B3
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot) 11(F) 8(M)  
[Name] Bushy Park  
 

In lawful possession of Ann Nugent, by J.C. Thierens qq.

NB it is uncertain whether this is the same Bushy Park as the larger registration of 1826 or a different one, possibly linked to claim BG no. 942.

 
T71/416 1325
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 44(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Bushy Park  
 

In lawful possession of Edw. Gibbons exor of Robert Gibbons by his attorney William Chichester

 
T71/415 530-533
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 106(Tot) 50(F) 56(M)  
[Name] Bushy Park  
 

Belonging to Pln Bushy Park in the lawful possession of the heirs of Robert Gibbons [by Jno Munro qq.]

 
T71/429 159-161