UCL

Gomier

Dominica

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
1816 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
George Grote
1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Pagan
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
William Forster Stewart
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Pagan
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
William Forster Stewart

Estate Information (7)

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1816
[Mortgage] 00/00/00001816  
 

'...[I]n 1816...three partners in the London firm of Prescott, Grote & Prescott loaned £10,000 that was secured on a coffee plantation in Dominica.' The list of enslaved people on whom in fact the loans was also secured [including Galline, Marie Marthe, Gabriel 'Head driver' and Lazar) has allowed LBS to identify this in the 1817 Slave Register as the Gomier estate of Thomas Pagan.

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot) 37(F) 22(M)  
[Name] Gomier Estate  
 

Return of Thomas Pagan, owner; returned by Charles Court, attorney. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. George.

 
T71/338 122-124
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot) 39(F) 23(M)  
[Name] Gomier Estate  
 

Return of Thomas Pagan, former owner; returned by Charles Court as Attorney. 59 enslaved were sold to Mr W F Stewart and delivered over to him this 1st of September 1822. St. George.

 
T71/358 74 - 76
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot) 40(F) 26(M)  
[Name] Gomier Estate  
 

Return of William F Stewart, owner. 59 enslaved were bought from Thomas Pagan Esq. by his attorneys Lockhart ad Court; 7 enslaved people had been registered in the Parish of St. Luke; and another person was purchased from William Humphries on 27 March 1823. St. George.

 
T71/358 76 - 77
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot) 38(F) 21(M)  
[Name] Gomier  
 

Returned by H Trew, owner; 59 enslaved people were purchased from William F Stewart on the estate; also included is a return by W F Stewart, as the previous owner of the estate, which shows that 7 enslaved people were removed to Roseau before the estate was sold. St. George.

 
T71/359 65-68
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 64(Tot) 37(F) 27(M)  
[Name] Gommier  
 

Returned by Henry Trew, owner; includes a full return of the enslaved. St. George.

 
T71/361 184-187
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 76(Tot) 39(F) 37(M)  
[Name] Gommier Estate  
 

Return of Henry Trew, owner. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. George.

 
T71/363 61-62