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Haags Bosch

British Guiana | Demerara

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
1811 [SY] - 1821 [EY] → Owner
John Heathcote
1821 [SY] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Arthur Heathcote Heathcote (ne Shepley)
1810 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Joint owner
William Heathcote
1834 [EA] - → Joint owner
Anne Brailsford (née Shepley)
1834 [EA] - → Joint owner
Thomas Brailsford

Associated Claims (2)

British Guiana 832A-C (Haags Bosch)
£5,831 19S 9D
British Guiana 633 (Plantn Haag's Bosch)
£7,609 9S 10D

Estate Information (6)

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1810
[Name] Haags Bosch  
 

William Heathcote came into the possession of Haags Bosch (situate in Canal No 3) ca 7 April 1810, previously the property of the late F Kroll.

 
Essequebo and Demerary Royal Gazette vol. 5 no. 256 (07/04/1810) transcribed at https://www.vc.id.au/edg/18100407edrg.html [accessed 20/08/2018].
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 156(Tot) 54(F) 102(M)  
[Name] Haag's Bosch  
 

T. Frankland registered 156 enslaved people as executor to estate of W. Heathcote.

 
T71/397 H1 439
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot) 103(F) 131(M)  
[Name] Haag's Bosch  
 

Thos. Frankland executor of William Heathcote

 
T71/414 305-311
1832
[Name] Haags Bosch  
 

In 1832, Robert Neilson prive and qq registered 146 enslaved people, who appear to represent those remaining after he sold 245 people of the 240 registered on Haags Bosch in 1829 and the 147 on Perseverance in 1829.

 
T71/430 565-569
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 103(Tot) 42(F) 61(M)  
[Name] None given  
 

Belonging to the heirs of William Heathcote in lawful possession of their attorney Thomas Frankland and by him hired to Robert Neilson for himself and representing the other heirs [signed T. Franklin qq.].

 
T71/430 506-508
1846
[Name] Haagbosch  
 

Shown in 1846 as one of five estates having been co-owned by the deceased Alexander Glen and James Glen.

 
London Gazette 20619 03/07/1846 p. 2476