Arnos Vale

Estate Details


Associated People (8)

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 [SY] - 1829 [EY] → Owner
1829 [SY] - 1847 [LA] → Owner
- 1829 [EY] → Trustee
- 1829 [EY] → Trustee
Joint owner

Identified as owner of one moiety of Arnos Vale in the will of his widow Mary proved in 1793. 'Crooke and Greetheed' were the original purchasers of Lot No. 125 (350 acres) and Lot No. 148 (31 acres) which became Arno's Vale.

Joint owner

Identified as owner of one moiety of Arnos Vale in the will of Mary Greatheed proved in 1793. 'Crooke and Greetheed' were the original purchasers of Lot No. 125 (350 acres) and Lot No. 148 (31 acres) which became Arno's Vale.

- 1792 [EY] → Owner

Mary Greatheed of Croydon, widow of Craister Greatheed, left both moieties of Arnos Vale to her son Samuel Greatheed in her will made in 1792 and proved in January 1793.

01/11/1858 [SD] - → Owner
  1. Sale of Arnos Vale by the West India Encumbered Estates Court in 1858 for £10,050 to Rev. F.R. Braithwaite.

Associated Claims (1)

£7,648 17S 3D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 406(Tot) 188(F) 217(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale Estate  
 

Samuel Greatheed as owner. 2 runaways; also an enslaved people "belonging to Hagar" also separately recorded as being upon the Estate and belonging to Samuel Greatheed

 
T71/493 227-234
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 347(Tot) 175(F) 172(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale Estate  
 

Samuel Greatheed as owner [118 deaths; some enslaved people purchased from Grissant Mutard and imported in sloop Spring from Dominica, some purchased from the estate of John Guilding, deceased, some from J W Brown, some from the Marshal's sale and also from T F Arrindell].

 
T71/495 108-112
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 332(Tot) 161(F) 171(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale Estate  
 

Samuel Greatheed [6 enslaved people purchased at St Christopher].

 
T71/497 78-80
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot) 147(F) 162(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale Estate  
 

Samuel Greatheed [3 enslaved people purchased from the estate of Edward Caines] [49 deaths].

 
T71/497 63-65
1830
[Number of enslaved people] 288(Tot) 131(F) 157(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale Estate  
 

Samuel Greatheed [43 deaths].

 
T71/499 45-47
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot) 126(F) 156(M)  
[Name] Arnos Vale Estate  
 

Arnos Vale Estate. The property of Samuel Greatheed. Register taken on 1st May. Total on 1st August 1834 was 284 enslaved people.

 
T71/500 74-76
1858
[Name] Arnos Vale  
 

Sale of Arnos Vale by the West India Encumbered Estates Court in 1858 for £10,050 to Rev. F.R. Braithwaite.

 
Sir Reginald John Cust, A treatise on the West India Encumbered Estates Act 2nd ed.(1865) pp. 208-218.