UCL

Darley [2]

Jamaica | Portland

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
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Roper
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Executrix
Mrs Frances Maria Roper
1823 [EA] - → Executor
Thomas Roper
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
Henry Roper
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
Francis Clark

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica Portland 244 (Darley)
£429 9S 9D

Notes

This group of enslaved people were listed as on Darley in 1834 but were owned separately to the other enslaved people on the estate. See also Darley [1].

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot) 11(F) 7(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Frances Maria Roper as Executrix of the Will of Thomas Roper.

 
T71/151 26
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Frances Maria Roper as Executrix to the Estate of Thomas Roper decd.

 
T71/152 156
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot) 10(F) 8(M)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Frances Maria Roper as possessor upon (illeg) of them from Mr John Steel the Receiver for the Estate of Thomas Roper Esq decd, under appointment of the Chancellor, also as part owner, as Executrix of the said Thomas Roper Esq decd and as Guardian of James, Charles, William and Frances Maria Roper jnr.

 
T71/153 114
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Thomas Roper as Exor of the Estate of Thomas Roper decd.

 
T71/153 74
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 20(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Roper as Qualified Exor to the Estate of Thomas Roper.

 
T71/154 40
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
[Name] Darley Plantation  
 

In the possession of Francis Clark as Receiver.

 
T71/155-156 [unpaginated]
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Roper as Exor to the Estate of Thomas Roper snr decd.

 
T71/155-156 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of Henry Roper including one to Miss F M Roper (?), Exor to the Estate of Thomas Roper snr decd.

 
T71/157 215