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La Fortuna

Trinidad | St Joseph

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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] - → Owner
John Francis Burke

Shown as John F. Burke in the 1813 Slave Register. In the compensation records in 1834 the owner was shown as his wife Maria Espiritu Santo Burke.

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1331 (La Fortuna)
£896 5S 7D

Estate Information (3)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] La Fortuna  
[Crop] Cocoa  
 

J.F. Burke proprietor

 
T7/501 695
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot)  
[Name] La Fortuna  
[Crop] Cocoa  
 

J F Burke, owner [increase by 2 births and purchases].

 
T 71/508 403
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 17(Tot)  
[Name] La Fortuna  
[Crop] Cocoa  
 

John F Burke, for his wife, Maria E S Burke, owner [increase by acquisition].

 
T 71/519 343 v - 344