UCL

Laroche's

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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
- 1805 [EY] → Owner
Sir James Laroche
1814 [SY] - 1816 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Langford Brooke senior

Thomas Langford Brooke senior contracted with William Manning and Justinian Casamajor to buy the Laroche estate in 1814.

Previous owner
Dame Elizabeth Rachel Ann Laroche formerly Archbould (née Yeamans)

Inferred to have been one of the estates on Antigua left by Dame Elizabeth LaRoche to her second husband c. 1781.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Langford Brooke
1821 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Attorney
George Carr

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 392 (Laroche's)
£2,306 18S 3D

Estate Information (6)

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1816
[Name] Laroches  
[Size] 233  
 

By indenture of 10 and 11 June 1816 Susannah Laroche spinster, Henry Laroche, Dame Elizabeth Laroche, James Laroche and others sold Laroches of 233 acres for £20,000 to trustees to pay the vendors certain annuities amounting to £500 p.a and to hold the estate for the heirs of Jonas Langford Brooke deceased.

 
Vere Langford Oliver 'History of Antigua' Vo. II p. 163
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Formerly Laroche's  
 

Thomas Hardman attorney to Thomas Langford Brooke Esq proprietor his estate formerly Laroche's in the parish of St Paul

 
T71/245 454-458
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 173(Tot)  
[Name] Larache's [sic]  
 

George Carr attorney to Tho. L. Brooke prop.

 
T71/246 597-601
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot)  
[Name] Laroaches [sic]  
 

William Byam attorney to Mrs Maria Langford Brooke by whom the property is leased from Thomas Langford Brooke Esq., proprietor Laroache's

 
T71/248 119-122
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] LaRoches  
 

William Byam attorney to Mrs Maria Langford Brooke by whom the property is leased from Thomas Langford Brooke Esq., proprietor. The estate is identified as LaRoche's in the sworn statement p. 48.

 
T71/249 45-48
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot)  
[Name] Laroche's  
 

Thomas S. Edwards attorney to Thomas Langford Brooke prop. Identified as Laroche's in the affidavit.

 
T71/250 57-60