UCL

Mount Eolus

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
1786 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Wolley of Southampton Street, Bloomsbury

Thomas Wolley was shown to have been mortgagor of three estates on Dominica and St Vincent, including Mount Eolus on Dominica in 1786, and in his will proved in 1800 he left unspecified property in Dominica and St Vincent to his wife Judith.

1820 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Manager
Thomas Sharples
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Not known
Thomas Sharples

Shown as owner but not present in the compensation claim for this estate.

1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Sharples
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Elizabeth Metcalfe

Associated Claims (1)

Dominica 4A, B &C
£901 19S 4D
Inferred association

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot) 19(F) 25(M)  
[Name] Mount Eolus Estate  
 

Returned by James Cross, manager for an unnamed owner. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. John.

 
T71/342 389-390
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot) 16(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Mount Eolus  
 

Returned by Thomas Sharples, manager for an unnamed owner. St. John.

 
T71/353 276
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot) 16(F) 27(M)  
[Name] Mount AEolus Estate  
 

Return of Thomas Sharpless, owner. St John.

 
T71/358 208
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot) 19(F) 28(M)  
[Name] Mt Eolus  
 

Returned by Thomas Sharples for Metcalf and Sharples, joint owners . St. John.

 
T71/360 175
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 44(Tot) 19(F) 25(M)  
[Name] Mount Eolus  
 

Returned by Thomas Sharpless, part owner; includes a full return of the enslaved. St. John.

 
T71/362 404 - 406
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot) 18(F) 22(M)  
[Name] Mount AElus Estate  
 

Return of Thomas Sharpless, joint owner with an unnamed person and manager. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. John.

 
T71/363 179