UCL

Brechin Castle Estate

Trinidad | Couva

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
1813 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Joint owner
William Manning
1813 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Joint owner
Frederick Manning
1813 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Joint owner
John Proctor Anderdon

Prior to 1816, the Anderdon partner in Mannings & Anderdon appears to have been John Proctor Anderson; thereafter it was his son John Lavicount Anderdon. The two might have overlapped in 1816.

1813 [EA] - 1813 [LA] → Attorney
James Lowe

James Lowe made the registration of enslaved people on the sugar estate called Brichin [sic] Castle owned by Messrs Manning & Anderdon in 1813.

1816 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Joint owner
John Lavicount Anderdon

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1661 (Brechin Castle Estate)
£4,333 16S 10D

Estate Information (8)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 38(Tot)  
[Name] Brechin Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

James Lowe attorney, owned by Messrs Manning & Anderdon

 
T71/501 630-631
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 39(Tot)  
[Name] Brichin Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

William Horsham, manager for Manning & Anderdon [sic], owners [2 births, 3 purchases].

 
T 71/508 196 v
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot)  
[Name] Brichin Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

James Taitt, agent, for Manning & Anderdon [sic], owners [3 births, 2 purchases].

 
T 71/511 311 v - 312
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Brichin Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Thatcher, attorney, for Mannings & Anderdon [sic], owners [2 births, remainder imports].

 
T 71/513 377 v - 378
1827
[Name] Brechin Castle Estates  
 

Brechin Castle Estates, Couva, Trinidad: Monthly inventory report, January 1827, including details of 53 slaves, the production of sugar, rum and livestock and the employment of Mr Philan, Overseer, on 21 February, with observations on the plantation. Available online, https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/archive/rmgc-object-477938 [accessed 15/12/2021].

 
MGS/40/26, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection, Royal Museums Greenwich
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Brichin [sic] Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return by James Murphy, attorney and manager, owned by Messrs Mannings and Anderdon

 
T71/515 2042
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 52(Tot)  
[Name] Brichin Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

George Davis, manager, for Mannings & Anderdon, owners.

 
T 71/517 279 v - 280
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
[Name] Brichin Castle  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Duncan McBean, attorney, for Smith, Payne and Smiths, owners, late the property of Mannings & Anderdon [increase by 7 births and the remainder by acquisition].

 
T 71/519 337 v - 338