UCL

Delap's Estate

Antigua

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
1763 [SY] - 1771 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
John Halliday of Antigua
1771 [SY] - 1779 [EY] → Owner
John Halliday of Antigua
1771 [SY] - 1779 [EY] → Trust beneficiary
John Delap Halliday
1779 [SY] - 1794 [EY] → Owner
John Delap Halliday
1794 [EA] - 1837 [EY] → Owner
Vice Admiral John Richard Delap Tollemache (formerly Halliday)

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 82 (Delap's Estate)
£3,952 18S 11D

Estate Information (6)

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1771
[Name] Delap's  
 

By an indenture of 29th and 30th March 1771 [Close Roll, 11 Geo. III Part 9 Nos. 15, 16 and 17] John Halliday of Antigua agreed with his son John Delap Halliday to bar and destroy the entail on Delap's estate (left under the will of Francis Delap of 1763 to John Halliday as tenant-for-life and then to John Delap Halliday), and to settle in trust for the benefit of John Delap Halliday and his wife Lady Jane Tollemache the Delap's, Gambles, Glanvilles and Lavicounts estates to secure an annuity of £1400 p.a. for John Delap Halliday and £1000 p.a. to his widow in lieu of dower.

 
Vere Langford Oliver 'History of Antigua' Vol II pp.43-48
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 249(Tot)  
[Name] Delaps  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby as attorney of John Richard Delap Halliday. No estate is given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby described the enslaved people as belonging to the estates called Delaps.

 
T71/245 163-168
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Delaps  
 

William Bertie Wolseley attorney of John Richard Delap Halliday proprietor (Delap's is identified p. 307).

 
T71/247 302-308
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Delap's  
 

William Bertie Wolseley attorney of John Richard Delap Tollemache proprietor of Delap's estate.

 
T71/248 780-785
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Delaps  
 

William Bertie Wolseley attorney of John Richard Delap Tollemache proprietor. The estate is identified in the affidavit as Delaps.

 
T71/249 691-696
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Delap's  
 

John Rose on behalf of John Freeland attorney of John Richard Delap Tollemache proprietor. The estate is identified in the affidavit as Delaps.

 
T71/250 755-760