UCL

ElDorado

Trinidad | Tacarigua and Arouca

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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] - 1822 [LA] → Owner
Laurence Nihell
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Laurence Nihell
1828 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Attorney
William Hardin Burnley

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1475 (ElDorado)
£6,561 15S 2D

Estate Information (7)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot)  
[Name] Eldorado  
 

Return by Laurence Nihell in possession as owner

 
T71/501 139-146
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot)  
[Name] Eldorado  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Laurence Nihell, owner [increase by births and 2 purchases].

 
T 71/508 436 v - 437
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Eldorado and Coura  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Robert Nihell, manager, for Laurence Nihell, owner [increase by births and 2 purchases].

 
T 71/511 401 v
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Eldorado and Coura  
[Crop] Sugar and cocoa  
 

Robert Nihell, for himself and the other heirs of the late Doctor Laurence Nihell [increase by births].

 
T 71/513 359
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] Eldorado and Coura  
[Crop] Sugar & cocoa  
 

Return of William H. Burnley attorney for the heirs of Laurence Nihell

 
T71/515 2007
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
[Name] Eldorado and Coura  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

William H Burnley, attorney, for the heirs of Laurence Nihell [increase by births].

 
T 71/517 314 v - 316
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Eldorado  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Parsons, manager, for the heirs of Laurence Nihell [increase by births].

 
T 71/519 201 v - 202