UCL

Clairmont or Claremont

British Guiana | Demerara

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
Executor
John Kingston of Clarence Terrace
1817 [EA] - → Joint owner
John Kingston MP
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
John Kingston of Copthall Chambers

NB The John Kingston who registered enslaved people on Clairmont in 1817as joint owner with John Kingston senior is tentatively believed to be John Kingston of Copthall Chambers, rather than John Kingston of Clarence Terrace. John Kingston sen. is almost certainly John Kingston MP.

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 2421 (Clairmont or Claremont)
£7,632 8S 3D

Notes

Given as Claremont in the compensation records, Clairmont in the 1817 Slave Register

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot) 84(F) 120(M)  
[Name] Claremont  
 

Registered by John Kingston joint prop. with John Kingston sen.

 
T71/397 C2 596
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot) 80(F) 98(M)  
[Name] Clairmont  
 

John Kingston joint proprietor

 
T71/413 C2
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 161(Tot) 74(F) 87(M)  
[Name] Clairmont  
 

In the lawful possession of the heirs of John Kingston senior of London, John Kingston of this colony, and Mrs Alice Egan by R. Kingston.

 
T71/416 999-1003
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot) 74(F) 77(M)  
[Name] Clairmont  
 

Belonging to Pln Clairmont, in lawful possession of G. Parry qq.

 
T71/432 1338-1342