UCL

Golden Rock

Nevis | St James Windward

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1801 [SY] - 1830 [EY] → Owner
Edward Huggins Sr.

Edward Huggins most likely purchased the estate in 1801

1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Other
Peter Thomas Huggins
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Peter Thomas Huggins
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Walter Lewis Bucke

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 36 (Golden Rock)
£4,096 6S 2D

Notes

The estate became a hotel in 1958. In 2009 it was still partilly owned by Pam Barry, the great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Edward Huggins who purchased the estate in 1801.

Sources

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/t-magazine/travel/17nevis.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 (sourced 14/07/2015)

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Rock  
 

Return of Edward Huggins Sr. Esq., owner

 
T71/364 88-93
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 244(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Rock  
 

Return of Edward Huggins Sr., owner

 
T71/365 85-86
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Rock  
 

Return of Edward Huggins Sr., owner; the total number of enslaved people living on the estate is not listed

 
T71/366 63
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Rock  
 

Return of Edward Huggins Sr. Esq., owner; returned by Peter Thomas Higgins

 
T71/367 56-58
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 213(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Rock  
 

Return of Peter Thomas Huggins, owner, late of Edward Huggins

 
T71/368 73
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Golden Rock  
 

Return of Peter Thomas Huggins; returned by W L Bucke

 
T71/369 146-147