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Weir'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
1767 [SY] - 1819 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Norbury Kerby
- 1767 [EY] → Owner
Hamilton Kerby
- 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
Rev. John Thomas Wilgress

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 349 (Weir's)
£2,834 18S 7D

Estate Information (7)

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1767
[Name] Weir's  
 

Under the will of Hamilton Kerby late of Antigua of Eltham Kent proved 25/09/1767, he left Weir's in trust to secure an annuity of £150 p.a. to his widow and other monetary legacies to his daughters, then to his son Thomas Norbury Kerby.

 
Will of Hamilton Kerby late of Antigua of Eltham Kent proved 25/09/1767 PROB 11/932/243
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Weirs  
 

Thomas Norbury Kerby proprietor. No estate is given but in his sworn confirmation Kerby described the enslaved people as belonging to the estate called Weir.

 
T71/245 180-184
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Wiers [sic]  
 

Samuel Warner administrator to the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby decd. late proprietor of Wiers [sic] plantation.

 
T71/246 360-364
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 182(Tot)  
[Name] Weir's  
 

Samuel Warner administrator of the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby decd. late proprietor of Weirs plantation.

 
T71/248 764-767
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Weirs  
 

Samuel Warner administrator of the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby decd. late proprietor of Weirs plantation.

 
T71/249 428-431
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
[Name] Weir's  
[Size] 136  
[Crop] Sugar, rum , molasses  
[Stock] 27  
 

In April 1831 the sale by public auction in October 1831 of Parry's and Weir's estates on Antigua were advertised arising from the suit of Charles Pott and others (executors and executrix of Robert Pott) versus Hon. Samuel Warner (Administrator of Thomas Norbury Kerby). Weir's was shown of 136 acres 'with 188 slaves, 21 head of horned cattle, one horse, and three mules.'

 
London Gazette 18819 01/07/1831 p. 1314
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 184(Tot)  
[Name] Weir's  
 

Samuel Warner administrator of the estate of Thomas Norbury Kerby decd. late proprietor of Weirs plantation.

 
T71/250 405-409