UCL

Mornes Estate

St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre

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
- 1793 [EY] → Owner
Stedman Rawlins II of St Kitts
1817 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Hon. Stedman Rawlins
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
Hon. Stedman Rawlins
1828 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Receiver
Stedman Rawlins junior
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Evan Baillie

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 48 (Mornes Estate)
£2,043 19S 6D

Estate Information (8)

What is this?

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Mornes  
 

Return of Hon Stedman Rawlins , owner; returned by William Swanston, manager.

 
T 71/253 068 - 072
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 169(Tot)  
[Name] Mornes  
 

Return of the Honorable Stedman Rawlins Esq, owner; returned by William Swanston, manager.

 
T 71/255 86-87
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Mornes  
 

Return of the Hon Stedman Rawlins, owner; returned by Stedman Rawlins, manager.

 
T 71/256 332-333
1828
[Name] Mornes  
[Size] 232  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St George Basseterre as an estate of 232 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 128 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Hon. Stedman Rawlins.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Mornes  
 

Return of Stedman Rawlins Jr, receiver for the estate of Hon Stedman Rawlins, owner; 10 enslaved people were given by deed of gift to G Rawlins. St. George, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 105-106
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Mornes  
 

Return of Stedman Rawlins deceased, owner; returned by William Wharton Rawlins, manager.

 
T 71/259 122-123
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Stedman Rawlins, owner; 125 enslaved people were transferred to the possession of Messrs. Evan Baillie Sons and Co as mortgagees on the 27th Sept. 1832; at the same time, 35 people were 'confiscated to the Crown'.

 
T 71/260 12 to 17
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] Mornes Estate  
 

Return of Evan Ballie, owner; returned by James Somerville, manager; 125 enslaved people were received with the estate on 27 Sept. 1832 by transfer from Stedman Rawlins Esq

 
T 71/260 9 to 12