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Carnbee

Tobago | St Andrew

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
William Hendrie
- 1809 [EY] → Owner
Robert Melville
1767 [SY] - 1773 [LA] → Owner
John Melvill

The original purchaser of Rockley Bay division (St Andrew parish) Lots nos. 25 and 26 (which became Carnbee) on 19/03/1767 was John Melvill or Melville, who still held them in 1773.

19/05/1767 [SD] - → Joint owner
Sir Arthur Leary Pigott or Piggott

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 18 (Carnbee)
£1,773 19S 10D

Notes

  1. The original purchaser of Rockley Bay division (St Andrew parish) Lots nos. 25 and 26 (which became Carnbee) on 19/03/1767 was John Melvill or Melville, who still held them in 1773. In 1832 the owner of 'Carnbie' was W. Hendrie: the estate was still in cultivation in 1862, and the 'Present Possessor' c. 1866 was W.E. Gain for Leg[atees] of Hendrie. Rockley Bay Lot. no. 9 (bought by J. Dumaresq 19/05/1767) was shown as 'Appen. to Carnbee' by Woodcock.

John Melvill or Melville, the purchaser of the Lots which became Carnbee, has not yet been identified. Major John Melville of Cairny at Cupar was one of Robert Melville's attorneys in Scotland but his will proved 27/05/1797 [PROB 11/1291/241] shows no visible connection to Tobago. The Dutch family of Baron Melvill van Carnbee must logically have a connection, but again none has been traced.

Sources

  1. 'Tables showing the Lots in each Parish, numbered as originally granted - the original Grantee - the name of the Lot, or lots, if one has been acquired, and the present Possessor where there is one' and 'A Table, showing the Estates in cultivation in 1832, and their Owners, in 1832, copied from the list appended to Byres' map of that date, with those in cultivation in 1862', Henry Iles Woodcock, A History of Tobago (Ayr: Smith and Grant, 1867; new impression London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1971); John Fowler, A summary account of the present flourishing state of the respectable colony of Tobago in the British West Indies illustrated with a map of the island and a plan of its settlement, agreeably to the sales by his Majesty’s Commissioners (London: A Grant, 1774) pp. 56-57, 58-59.

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/general_melville.pdf

Estate Information (4)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot) 77(F) 62(M)  
[Name] Carnbee  
 

Return made by Thomas Currie Bruce 29/01/1819

 
T71/462 110-115
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot) 60(F) 43(M)  
[Name] Carnbee  
 

James Reid manager

 
T71/474 16
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 60(F) 42(M)  
[Name] Carnbee  
 

Richard Bache manager

 
T71/481 16
1831
[Name] Carnbee  
[Size] 264  
 

In 1831, the auction sale of Carnbee 'together with the slaves and livestock thereon' was advertised pursuant to a decree in Chancery in the suit of Hendrie v Morgan.

 
London Gazette 18821 08/07/1831 p. 1373