UCL

Cooks

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
- 1779 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Edward Otto Bayer or Baijer

Tentative association only

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Langford Lovell Hodge of Antigua
1817 [EA] - 1824 [LA] → Other
Elizabeth Darby

The heirs of Mrs Elizabeth Darby were shown as lessors of enslaved people to the estate 1817-24.

1824 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
Hastings Elwin or Elwyn

Acting executor under the will of Langford Lovell Hodge

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Robert Pulsford the elder
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
William Pulsford the elder

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 97 (Cooks)
£4,103 18S 7D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] Cooks  
 

Henry Hodge as one of the executors under the will of Langford Lovell Hodge deceased proprietor. The estate name is given in Hodge's sworn confirmation. Hodge registered a further 45 enslaved people on Cooks as exor of Langford Lovell Hodge, lessee from the heirs of Mrs Elizabeth Darby [pp. 239-240].

 
T71/245 233-239
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 266(Tot)  
[Name] Cooks  
 

Henry Hodge one of the executors under the will of Langford Lovell Hodge deceased proprietor on the estate called Cooks. Hodge registered a further 44 enslaved people on Cooks as exor of Langford Lovell Hodge, lessee from the heirs of Mrs Elizabeth Darby [pp. 393-394].

 
T71/246 186-192
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 260(Tot)  
[Name] Cooks  
 

George Weatherill Ottley attorney to Hastings Elwin Esq. acting executor under the will of Langford Lovell Hodge decd. proprietor Cooks. He also registered a further 46 enslaved people the property of the heirs of Elizabeth Darby under lease to the late Langford Lovell Hodge on Cooks [pp. 613-614].

 
T71/248 604-609
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Cooks  
 

George Weatherill Ottley attorney to Hastings Elwin Esq. acting executor under the will of the late Langford Lovell Hodge decd. Cooks is named in the affidavit.

 
T71/249 335-340
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 253(Tot)  
[Name] Cooks  
 

George Weatherill Ottley attorney to Hastings Elwin Esq. acting executor under the will of the late Langford Lovell Hodge prop. Cooks

 
T71/250 312-317