UCL

Stephen Blizard's

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
- 1777 [EY] → Owner
Stephen Blizard
- 1810 [EY] → Joint owner
Elizabeth Byam formerly Warner (née Blizard)

Joint tenant for life with her sisters

1777 [EA] - 1805 [LA] → Joint owner
Ann Lessly (née Blizard)

Joint tenant for life with her sisters

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Jane Young (née Blizard)
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Jane Kerby (née Byam)
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
Hon. Ann Byam Stapleton (née Kerby)

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 363 (Stephen Blizard's)
£2,919 14S 8D

Notes

Inferred association with the 1817 Slave Register

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot)  
[Name] Pope's Head  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby one of the proprietors and attorney to John and Jane Young and lessee of James Nibbs, also proprietors. No estate is given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby described the enslaved people as belonging to the 'estate of Stephen Blizard Esq. deceased (Pope's Head).' The ownership is consistent with the estate given as 'Stephen Blizard's' in the compensation records.

 
T71/245 190-195
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 217(Tot)  
[Name] Plantation of Stephen Blizard  
 

Samuel Warner attorney to Jane Kerby and acting for the other proprietors John and Jane Young and administrator of the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby deceased lessee. The affidavit on p. 359 shows the slaves as belonging to the Plantation of Stephen Blizard.

 
T71/246 355-360
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Richard Wesston Nanton one of the lessees and the attorney of Mrs Jane Kerby joint proprietor with John and Jane Young. In his sworn statement he describes the enslaved people as 'belonging to the Plantation of Stephen Blizard Esq. deceased.'

 
T71/248 517-521
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Richard Wesston Nanton one of the lessees and the attorney of Mrs Jane Kerby joint proprietor with John and Jane Young. In his sworn statement he describes the enslaved people as 'belonging to the estate of Stephen Blizard Esq. deceased' and being in his possessions one of the lessees of that estate.

 
T71/249 435-439
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Stephen Blizard's  
 

Richard Wesston Nanton one of the lessees of the estate of Stephen Blizard deceased. In his sworn statement he describes the enslaved people as 'belonging to the estate of Stephen Blizard Esq. deceased'.

 
T71/250 61-65