Turnbulls

Estate Details


Associated People (3)

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
1792 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
- 1792 [EY] → Owner
1771 [SY] - → Mortgage Holder

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Estate Information (6)

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1771
[Name] Turnbulls  
 

Indenture of 29/04/1771 between John Gray of Antigua Esq. now residing in London (eldest son and heir-at-law of Robert Gray of Antigua deceased, and devisee under his will) and Alexander Willock of Antigua Esq. being also at this time in London granting Willock 'all that plantation in the division of Belfast, in Antigua, formerly two plantations and containing altogether 250 acres or thereabouts... and also that other plantation called Turnbull's in the division of St John containing 120 acres or thereabouts.'

 
Oliver, 'History of Antigua' Vol. II part i p. 35
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 54(Tot)  
[Name] Turnbulls  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby as attorney of Francis Willock the administrator to the estate of Alexander Willock decd.and who was and still is mortgagee-in-possession of the estates of John Gray deceased. No estate is given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby described the enslaved people as belonging to the estates called Turnbulls.

 
T71/245 217-219
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Wm Gilchrist of Antigua as executor and trustee of late John Gray. Inferred to be Turnbull's.

 
T71/247 146-147
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

William Gilchrist executor and trustee under the will of John Gray deceased. Inferred to be Turnbull's. Gilchrist also registered separately a further 150 people in the same capacity, inferred to be on Gray's Belfast (q.v.).

 
T71/248 292-293
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Turnbulls  
 

William Gilchrist executor and trustee of John Gray deceased. The estate is identified as Turnbulls in the affidavit.

 
T71/249 302-303
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

James Gilchrist executor and trustee of William Gilchrist deceased and guardian to his children and on behalf of his widow Maria Harriet Gilchrist. James Gilchrist separately registered 43 enslaved people as executor and trustee of William Gilchrist deceased and guardian to his children [p. 287].

 
T71/250 286