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Eliza and Mary

British Guiana | Berbice

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
- 1824 [EY] → Owner
Nathaniel Winter
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Nathaniel Winter
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Not known
James Evan Baillie

Awarded part of the compensation for the enslaved people on Eliza and Mary, which had belonged to Nathaniel Winter

Associated Claims (2)

British Guiana 158B ([Eliza and Mary?])
£17,235 17S 4D
Inferred association
British Guiana 158A ([Eliza and Mary?])
£8,617 18S 8D

Notes

Berbice - not yet definitively traced in the slave compensation records but almost certainly British Guiana nos. 158A & 158B.

Estate Information (3)

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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 269(Tot)  
[Name] Eliza and Mary  
 

In the 1825 Slave Register for Plantation Friends in Berbice, a note under 'Return of slaves the property of Messrs. Nath. Winter & Co. attached to Pln Eliza and Mary' says that the 269 enslaved people were 'this day' (either 01/01/1825 or 24/03/1825) transferred to Plantation Eliza and Mary the property of Messrs. Nath. Winter & Co.

 
T71/442 57-58
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 539(Tot)  
[Name] Eliza and Mary  
 

Return of slaves the property of Winter, Innes & Baillie attached to Eliza and Mary, this return by their attorney William Ross. In addition to the 269 enslaved people of the last return for Eliza and Mary were a further 113 enslaved people 'now transferred from Nomen Nescio', giving a rebased '382 heads.' The majority of the additional people had been transferred from Plantation Profit since 1825.

 
T71/443 361-370
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 513(Tot)  
[Name] Eliza and Mary  
 

Return of slaves the property of Winter, Innes & Baillie attached to Eliza and Mary, this return by their attorney John Cameron

 
T71/444 764-769