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Madey's Estate

Grenada | St Patrick

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Associated People (13)

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
- 1807 [LA] → Owner
James Law of Portland Place
1822 [SY] - → Not known
Sir William Young of Upper Wimpole Street

Sir William Young of Wimpole Street claimed the compensation for the 'legal estate in the premises' under indentures of 30th and 31st July 1822.

Mortgage Holder
James Bogle French

An indenture made 23/07/1800 and entered 02/04/1801 shows the mortgage in 1766 of Madeys sugar estate, Levera 'tract and provision' and Belvidere (formerly St Lawrents) a coffee and sugar estate, by Michael Scott deceased and his wife Marthé Cornette Victoire De St. Cyr Scott of Wolfenbuttel in the Dutchy of Brunswick in Lower Saxony, and in 1769 of the Boulogne and Union estates, initially to Samuel Wordsworth of London. Michael Scott subsequently sold annuities to the Gore family and borrowed further, from James Bogle French, secured on the same estates.

- 1798 [LA] → Owner
Charles Ashwell of Grenada
1763 [EA] - → Owner
Madey senior
1766 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
Samuel Wordsworth
1771 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Annuitant
Charles Gore of Southampton
1771 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Annuitant
Philadelphia Gore of Ipswich
1771 [EA] - 1771 [LA] → Annuitant
Catherine Gore of Ipswich
1772 [EA] - 1782 [LA] → Owner
Michael Scott
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
Matthew Welsh
1820 [EA] - → Owner
William Law
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
John Goodson

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 691 (Madey's Estate)
£3,718 17S 7D

Estate Information (8)

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1763
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 110  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1763, the estate was 110 acres, of which 88 was under cultivation. The estate was growing sugarcane. Proprietor given as Madey senior.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1782
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 352  
[Crop] sugar  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 352 acres, cultivating sugarcane with a cattle mill. Proprietor given as Michel Scott, Esq.

 
'A topographical description of the Island of Grenada; surveyed by Monsieur Pinel in 1763... with the addition of English names, alterations of property, and other improvements to the present time' (1780), British Library Maps K. Top.123.112.b-e
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Madey's Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of William Law and worked upon Madey's Estate.

 
T71/265 379-382
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot) 92(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Madleys Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Matthew Welsh as Attorney of William Law.

 
T71/274 139
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot) 93(F) 74(M)  
[Name] Madey's Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Matthew Welsh as Attorney of John Goodson.

 
T71/285 105
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 155(Tot) 87(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Madeys Estate  
 

In possession of Matthew Welsh attorney of John Goodson.

 
T71/299 131-132
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot) 82(F) 68(M)  
[Name] Madeys Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Matthew Welsh as Attorney of John Goodson.

 
T71/311 223-224
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot) 79(F) 61(M)  
[Name] Madeys Estate  
 

In possession of Matthew Welsh as attorney of John Goodson.

 
T71/317 211-212