UCL

Cedar Hill

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
- 1795 [EY] → Owner
Edward Byam of Cedar Hill
- 1768 [EY] → Owner
Edward Byam senior
- 1779 [EY] → Owner
William Byam died 1779

Inferred by LBS to have been the estate mortgaged by William Byam d. 1779 to John Banister and bequeathed subject to the mortgage to his son Edward.

1773 [EA] - → Mortgage Holder
John Banister of Cavendish Square

It is known from his will that John Banister held a mortgage of £11,000 from William Byam: it has been inferred to relate to the Cedar Hill estate estate there.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Sir William Byam of Cedar Hill

Associated Claims (2)

Antigua 318 (Cedar Hill)
£2,149 3S 10D
Antigua 316 (Cedar Hill, River Estate)
£1,967 12S 4D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
[Name] Cedar Hill  
 

William Byam proprietor of Cedar Hill

 
T71/245 367-372
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 258(Tot)  
[Name] Cedar Hill  
 

William Byam proprietor of Cedar Hill

 
T71/246 87-94
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 250(Tot)  
[Name] Cedar Hill  
 

William Byam proprietor Cedar Hill

 
T71/248 125-130
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Cedar Hill  
 

William Byam proprietor of Cedar Hill.

 
T71/249 68-73
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 255(Tot)  
[Name] Cedar Hill  
 

William Byam proprietor of Cedar Hill.

 
T71/250 65-70