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Waltham Estate

Grenada | St Mark

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Associated People (8)

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
1795 [SY] - 1820 [EY] → Owner
George Home of Paxton
1780 [EA] - 1795 [LA] → Owner
Ninian Home
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
John Fairbairn or Fairburn

The Slave Register entry for 1820 might suggest that John Fairbairn was the deceased owner, but this is not consistent with other iterations which show it in the Home family, and it appears that as with the Tufton Hall estate he was in fact deceased attorney. He was also employed on the estate in 1804 (see Dr Stevenson's letter to George Home, below).

1820 [EA] - → Executor
Robert Nicholson
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Foreman Home
1826 [EA] - → Executor
John Hoyes of Grenada
1826 [EA] - → Other
Robert Nicholson
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
John Hoyes of Grenada

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 566 (Waltham Estate)
£6,226 16S 0D

Notes

An estate in Grenada in the quartier du Grand Pauvre and the parish of St. Mark, identified as lot 20 in Daniel Paterson's Topographical Description of the Island of Grenada (1780) and as Estate 26 in Gavin Smith's Plan of the Island of Grenada (1801). Identified in 1824 as Waltham.

Estate Information (10)

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1763
[Name] Lot 20  
 

No acreage, crops or proprietor given for this estate in 1763.

 
'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] Lot 20  
[Size] 500  
[Crop] coffee or cocoa  
 

In 1780-1782, the estate comprised 500 acres, growing coffee or cocoa. Proprietor given as Ninian Home, 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
1804
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot) 106(F) 97(M)  
[Name] Waltham Estate  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Lists of enslaved people in 1804 sent to George Home by Dr Stevenson, who managed the property: 07/02/1804 there were 77 men, 92 women, 20 boys and 14 girls on the estate, total 205; by 01/10/1804 there were 77 men, 92 women and 38 children, total 207. The estate was growing sugar: "All the other affairs here, are going on pretty well I believe - Very busy making sugar etc. But I have all that to Mr Fairburn, to whom it properly belongs."

 
NRS, GD267/5/11/1, 3 and 5
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot)  
[Name] Waltham Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Fairburn as lawful attorney for George Home Esqr proprietor.

 
T71/265 330-333
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot) 107(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Waltham Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Robert Nicholson as Exor of John Fairbairn decd.

 
T71/274 96-97
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot) 99(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Waltham Estate  
 

In the possession of the Exor of the late Robert Nicholson, Attorney of Willliam Forman Horne or Home Esq.

 
T71/285 3-4
1824
[Name] Waltham  
[Size] 631  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Plotted on Gavin Smith's 1801 map of Grenada as Estate 26 in St Mark, corresponding with Lot 20 in St Mark on Paterson's 1780 map. Produce given as sugar, 631 acres, proprietor W. Howie[sic].

 
'Reference to the plan of the Island of Grenada by Gavin Smith showing the names of all the different estates; the proprietors' names (corrected up to 1824); the species of produce made; and the quantity of land belonging to each' (London, 1882) p. 6
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot) 91(F) 78(M)  
[Name] Waltham Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of John Hoyes executor of Robert Nicholson deceased acting on behalf of William Foreman Home Esquire the proprietor of said estate.

 
T71/299 70
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot) 87(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Waltham Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Hoyes Esq as Attorney of William Forman Home Esq

 
T71/311 168-169
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot) 86(F) 73(M)  
[Name] Waltham Estate  
 

Belonging and attached to Waltham Estate in the lawful possession of John F. Home.

 
T71/317 140-141