Associated People (5) |
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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:
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1799 [EA] - 1808 [EY] → Owner
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1808 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
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1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
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1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
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1829 [EA] - 1839 [LA] → Owner
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Associated Claims (1) |
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£4,389 10S 1D
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Estate Information (24) |
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1799
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)
[Name] C. Castle Registered in Hanover to John Hilton with 217 enslaved people in Balcarres' letter to the Duke of Portland, dated 22/03/1800, return given at a vestry meeting 23/11/1799.
Papers Presented to the House of Commons of the 7th May 1804, Respecting the Slave Trade (Houses of Parliament, 1804) section G p. 24.
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1799
[Name] Chester Castle
[Crop] Sugar Plotted In Hanover as a sugar estate with a cattle mill in James Robertson's 1804 map of Jamaica.
To the King's most excellent Majesty, this map of the island of Jamaica, constructed from actual surveys. . . (London, J. Robertson, 1804), based on Robertson's survey of the county of Cornwall which he compeleted in 1799.
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1810
[Number of enslaved people] 318(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 330 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Hanov.htm. The 1811 almanac was based on the givings-in of the March Quarter for 1810, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1811
[Number of enslaved people] 315(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 117 Registered to William Cook.
Jamaica Almanac (1812) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1812co2.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 320(Tot)
[Name] Chester-Castle [Stock] 325 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 298(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 291 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1818) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1818al15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 299(Tot) 153(F) 146(M)
[Name] [no name given] In possession of James Hedley as attorney to William Cooke the owner.
T71/190 154-159
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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 307(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 301 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1820) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al20p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 310(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 277 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1821) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al1821_11.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1820
[Number of enslaved people] 306(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of James Hedley agent for William Cooke the owner.
T71/191 113-115
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1821
[Number of enslaved people] 302(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 68 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1822) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/Al22p15.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 303(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 267 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1824) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL24hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 304(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Whittington as attorney to William Cooke.
T71/192 146-147
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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 316 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1826) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1826al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 71 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1827) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/a1827al12.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 295(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Whittingham as attorney to William Cooke.
T71/193 359-360
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1827
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 57 Registered to William Cook.
Jamaica Almanac (1828) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1828al17.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1828
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 33 Registered to William Cook.
Jamaica Almanac (1829) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al29hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1829
[Number of enslaved people] 276(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Whittington Esquire as attorney to William Cooke Esq as owner.
T71/194 96
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1830
[Number of enslaved people] 275(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 44 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1831) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/1831hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1831
[Number of enslaved people] 274(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 51 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1832) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/al32hano.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 267(Tot)
[Name] Chester Castle [Stock] 34 Registered to William Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1833) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL33Hanov.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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1832
[Number of enslaved people] 264(Tot)
[Name] [no name given] In the possession of John Whittingham as the attorney to the late William Cooke Esquire dec'd.
T71/198 163
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1839
[Name] Chester Castle
[Size] 1600 Registered to William Hilton Cooke.
Jamaica Almanac (1840) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Samples/AL40Hanover.htm. The almanac was based on the givings-in of the previous March Quarter, hence the earlier evolution date.
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???? - 29th Aug 1873
Free person of colour, slave-owner in Jamaica. Long-term partner and later wife of Thomas Legal Yates. Living in Britain from the mid-1830s until her death in 1873.
Document comprises 4 parts, written recto and verso across 5 folios: 1. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 2. An inventory and valuation of enslaved persons at Williamsfield settlement, St Elisabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 3. An inventory of animals at Windsor Estate, St Elizabeth parish, Jamaica, 1814. 4. A cover note outlining the contents of the document.
© Copyright Legacies of British Slavery - UCL Department of History 2024
CITING THIS RECORD:
'Chester Castle [ Jamaica | Hanover ]', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/estate/view/2039 [accessed 22nd November 2024].
