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Studley Park

Tobago | St George

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
1822 [SY] - 1862 [EY] → Administratrix
Mary Ann Brooke
19/04/1768 [SD] - 1792 [EY] → Owner
John Robley Senior
1766 [SY] - → Owner
John Colby

Originally granted to John Colby under St George nos. 33, 34 and 37; 'Present Possessor' Mary A. Brooke. In 1832 the owners were shown as 'heirs of Robley'; the estate was still in cultivation in 1862.

- 1822 [EY] → Owner
John Robley

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 51 (Studley Park)
£2,432 0S 3D

Notes

Original grantee of Barbados Bay (St George parish) Lots nos. 33, 34 and 37 was 'John Colby' (conceivably an error for John Robley); by 1773 the Lots were owned by John Robley [Senior]. 'Present Possessor Mary A. Brooke. In 1832 the owners were shown as 'heirs of Robley'; the estate was still in cultivation in 1862. Mary A Brooke (q.v.) was identified in the 1830s as the administratrix of John Robley.

Sources

'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. 34-35.

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 190(Tot) 95(F) 95(M)  
[Name] Studley Park  
 

1819 Return by John Robley

 
T71/462 30-36
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot) 76(F) 71(M)  
[Name] Studley Park  
 

John Baird manager

 
T71/474 73
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot) 70(F) 64(M)  
[Name] Studley Park  
 

James Gardner manager

 
T71/481 72