UCL

Union Estate

Grenada | St Mark

Estate Details

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
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Townsend of Grenada
1820 [EA] - → Not known
John Ross senior
1823 [EA] - → Attorney
Robert Henry Church
1826 [EA] - → Not known
Hon. Andrew Houstoun
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Henry Wharton Waddilove
1829 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
James Smith of Jordanhill
1829 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Archibald Smith
1829 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Robert McCunn

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 559 (Union Estate)
£4,160 18S 11D

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Ross attorney for Thomas Townsend proprietor.

 
T71/265 325-327
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot) 80(F) 81(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Ross, position not recorded.

 
T71/274 93
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot) 83(F) 82(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Robert H Church as Attorney.

 
T71/285 56
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot) 83(F) 84(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Registered by Andrew Houstoun but no more details given.

 
T71/299 74-75
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot) 80(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of Henry Wharton Waddilove as Proprietor

 
T71/311 165-166
1829
[Name] Union & Alliance  
 

Indenture of 01/01/1833 between James Smith, Archibald Smith and Robert McCunn of Glasgow and William Wharton Waddilove, recording that in 1829 in order to secure a guarantee of the £4000 he owed to Ann Wharton of Grenada, William Wharton Waddilove had mortgaged the Union estate to James Smith, Archibald Smith and Robert McCunn; no advance had been made on the guarantee and that the guarantee had been surrendered by Ann Wharton, and the parties were therefore seeking to reverse the mortgage of the estate. The estate is identified in the indenture as formerly belonging to Thomas Townsend.

This indenture has been transcribed by Mr Jim Smith and posted at http://agenealogyhunt.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/part-325s-smith-robertson-genealogy.html [accessed 01/09/2016].

 
Grenada Register of Records FHL [1563380] Item 6 pp. 321-325
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot) 84(F) 79(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

Belonging or attached to Union Estate, parish of St Mark, in the lawful possession of Henry Wharton Wadilove proprietor.

 
T71/313 63-64
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot) 85(F) 74(M)  
[Name] Union Estate  
 

In the lawful possession of Henry Wharton Waddilove proprietor.

 
T71/317 153-154