UCL

Waterworks Estate

Montserrat

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
- 1775 [EY] → Owner
John Davis Molineux the son

1.Indenture of 7/10/1775 between John Davis Molineux of Montserrat now in the City of London son and heir of John Davis Molineux late of the said island, and Tho. Meade, Henry Parsons and John O'Garra of the said island, conveying the Water Work estate of 250 acres and the 'negroes' upon it, on trust to sell the estate and use the proceeds to pay the debts of John Davis Molineux and pay the residue to John Davis Molineux Valuation £21,583.

1753 [SY] - → Owner
Thomas Meade

Vere Langford Oliver, Caribbeana being miscellaneous papers relating to the history, genealogy, topography, and antiquities of the British West Indies (6 vols., London, Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1910-1919), Vol. 5 pp. 112-114.

1761 [EA] - 1761 [LA] → Owner
John Davis Molineux the father
1817 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Previous owner
Bridget Meade
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
Clement Kirwan

Shown as deceased owner

Associated Claims (1)

Montserrat 206 (Waterworks Estate)
£1,655 8S 5D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 91(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Bridget Meade, deceased owner; returned by William Shiell, attorney of Thomas Hill, executor. Based on information given in the 1828 and 1831 register, this has been identified as Water Work Estate.

 
T 71/447 190-194
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Bridget Meade, deceased owner; returned by Thomas Hill, executor and trustee. Based on information given in the 1828 and 1831 register, this has been identified as Water Work Estate.

 
T 71/448 262-264
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 96(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Returned by Thomas Hill, executor and trustee to Bridget Meade. Based on information given in the 1828 and 1831 register, this has been identified as Water Work Estate.

 
T 71/449 220-222
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot)  
[Name] Water Work  
 

Return of Charles Kirwan, in possession of the estate; returned by Michael Joseph Semper, attorney; notes that the previous return was 'made by Thomas Hill then acting as executor and trustee of Bridget Meade'.

 
T 71/450 223-227
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] Water Work  
 

Return of Clement Kerwan, deceased, owner; returned by Michael Joseph Semper as attorney to Elizabeth Kerwan, executrix.

 
T 71/451 2-5