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Essendam and Sans Souci

British Guiana | Berbice

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
1818 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Joint owner
Ambrosius Johannes Pool
1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
Mrs Johanna Agnes Fraser (née Westrik)
1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Heir
Jane Agnes Wilhelmina Fraser Rich (née Fraser)

Co-heir with her siblings of their mother

1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Heir
Charlotte Mary Ann Woodford (née Fraser)

Co-heir with her siblings of their mother

1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Heir
Captain Charles Henry Fraser

Co-heir with his siblings of their mother

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 995 (Sans Souci)
£610 8S 9D
This is a tentative association only

Notes

The plantation appears to have been discontinued between 1825 and 1828, with all the enslaved people sold, and hence not traced in the compensation records, other than a tentative association of BG No. 995 for 12 enslaved people, claimed by the guardians of the minor Frasers.

Estate Information (5)

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1794
[Name] Nieuw Sans Soucie  
 

Plantagie Nieuw Sans Soucie. Eigenaars [owners] J.A. Pool en comp.; Adminis. L.C. Abbensets; Directeur Jurgen Abbensets. P. 14 also shows Plantagie Sans Souci with Eigenaars [owners] Jacob Amb Pool en Comp.; Adminis. L.C. Abbensets; Directeur J.J. de Chambon.

 
Naam-Lyst...op de colonie de Berbice (1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p.11
1794
[Name] Nieuw Essendam  
 

Plantagie Nieuw Essendam. Eigenaars [owners] de erven [heirs] wed [widow] J van Pool; Adminis. L.C. Abbensets; Directeur L.C. Abbensets. P. 13 also shows 'De Grond Essendam' Eigenaars [owners] de Erven [heirs] de wed [widow] J.V. Pool.

 
Naam-Lyst...op de colonie de Berbice (1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p.12
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 237(Tot) 111(F) 126(M)  
[Name] Essendam and Sans Souci  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation Essendam and Sans Souci situate on the East Bank of the River Berbice the property of Messrs Westrick and Pool cum suis. This return made by C.C. Swaving 17/12/1817.

 
T71/437 411-415
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 214(Tot)  
[Name] Essendam and Sans Souci  
 

Return of slaves the property of Messrs Westrik and Pool of Amsterdam and heirs of Fraser London attached to Pln Essendam and Sans Souci situate on the east bank of the River Berbice, return by A. Krieger, B. C. Kiss and F Maurenbacher. The whole number of slaves contained in the last return 236. Additions 16 (6M 10F); deductions 38 (18M 20F) total 214.

 
T71/442 73-76
1828
[Name] Essendam and Sans Souci  
 

Return of slaves the property of Messrs Westrick and Pool of Amsterdam and heirs of Fraser London attached to Pln Essendam and Sans Souci, this return by F. Maurenbrecher. All the surviving enslaved people from the 214 enslaved on the estates in 1825 were sold to numerous buyers, including Pln Schepmoed and 'Culley & Watson'.

 
T71/443 345-356