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Shadwell Park & Westhope Estate

St Kitts | St George 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
- 1776 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
Gilbert Fane Fleming
- 1762 [EY] → Owner
Gilbert Fleming
1776 [SY] - 1822 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Carolina Alicia Brisco Lady Brisco (née Fleming)
1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner
Sir Wastel Brisco 2nd Bart.
1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner
George Stanley Cary

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 303 (Shadwell Park & Westhope Estate)
£3,482 17S 6D

Notes

Although these are two estates which were jointly administered, they were in adjoining parishes. Shadwell Estate was in St George Basseterre, as mentioned above, but Westhope was located in St Peter Basseterre.

Sources

New Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon 1828

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Shadwell  
 

Return of Lady Brisco and Edward Cairy Esq, owners; returned by Charles Bryan, manager for Charles Woodley, attorney.

 
T 71/253 454- 459
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
[Name] Shadwell  
 

Return of Dowager Lady Brisco and Edward Carey Esq, owners; returned by Charles C Bryan, manager for Charles Woodley, attorney.

 
T 71/255 12
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
[Name] Shadwell and Westhope  
 

Returned by James Stagemen, attorney for the estates of the late Lady Brisco and Edward Carey now the property of Sir Wastel Brisco and George Stanley Carey.

 
T 71/256 59-60
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Shadwell & Westhope  
 

Returned by James Stageman, attorney for the estate of Sir Wastel Brisco Barts and Stanley Cary Esquire, joint owners.

 
T 71/258 11 to 12
1828
[Size] 144  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Although administered together from at least 1817 (see T 71/253), these estates are listed separately on this map. This is because they are in different parishes. While, Shadwell Estate is in St George Basseterre, as noted above, Westhope is in St. Peter Basseterre.

Shadwell Estate

Cane Land 107.3.11 Other Land 52.2.0
Total Land 160.1.11

Westhope Estate Cane Land 37.1.6
Other Land 15.2.3 Total Land 52.3.9

Proprietor listed as Sir Wastel Briscoe, Bart.

 
New Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon 1828
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] Shadwell and Westhope  
 

Return of Sir Wastel Brisco Bart. and George Stanley Cary Esq, joint owners; returned by Duncan Robertson, attorney to the lessees Messrs Mannings and Anderdon.

 
T 71/259 29-30
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot)  
[Name] Sahdwell and Westhope  
 

Return of Sir Wastel Briscoe and George Stanley Cary, owner; returned by James Stageman, attorney.

 
T 71/260 34