UCL

Estridges Bramble Estate

St Kitts | St John Capesterre

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
- 1778 [EY] → Owner
John Estridge of Brislington, Somerset

John Estridge left the Bramble or Mountain estate to his son Aretas in his will, proved in 1778

1778 [EA] - 1778 [LA] → Heir
Aretas Estridge

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 752 (Estridges Bramble Estate)
£715 18S 10D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Bramble Estate  
 

Return of John Estridge Esq, deceased, owner; returned by William G. Crooke, manager.

 
T 71/253 462-463
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot)  
[Name] Bramble  
 

Return of John Estridge Esq, deceased owner.

 
T 71/255 40
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot)  
[Name] Bramble  
 

Return of John Estridge Esq, deceased owner; returned by G. W. Parson, attorney.

 
T 71/256 157
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot)  
[Name] Bramble  
 

Returned by G W Parson, attorney of estate of John Estridge Esq, deceased owner. St. John, Capisterre

 
T 71/258 50
1828
[Name] Bramble  
[Size] 241  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St John Capisterre as an estate of 241 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 89 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Estridge deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot)  
[Name] Bramble  
 

Return of John Estridge Esq deceased owner; returned by G W Parson, attorney.

 
T 71/259 57-58
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] Bramble, the  
 

Return of J Estridge deceased, owner; returned by G W Parson, attorney.

 
T 71/260 55 to 56