UCL

Burke's

Antigua

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
Owner
John Burke of Burke's

To date no death date has been found for John Burke of Burke's, but he was dead by 1767

- 1821 [EY] → Owner
John Burke of Antigua
1824 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Nelson

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 391 (Burke's)
£2,866 11S 9D

Estate Information (4)

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1821
[Name] Burke's  
 

John Burke barrister-at-law, of Gray's Inn 1765 buried at Burke's 20/10/1821 aged 75. Will dated 09/02/1821, sworn 29/10/1821. Plantation in St Paul Falmouth in trust for wife Dorothy Bonnen.

 
Vere Langford Oliver, History of Antigua Vol. I p. 84
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Nelson prop. (147 purchased from Charles Chatfield). Tentatively inferred to be Burke's, by virtue of the compensation payments to Nelson for Burke's in the 1830s. John Burke prop. registered [reportedly by mark] 131 enslaved people on an unnamed estate in 1817 [T71/245 pp. 662-664] and 121 enslaved people again on an unnamed estate in 1821 [T71/247 pp. 309-313].

 
T71/248 528-531
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Nelson prop. Inferred to be Burke's.

 
T71/249 554-557
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

George Knox attorney to Samuel Nelson proprietor.

 
T71/250 518-521