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Belle Air

Trinidad | Oropuche

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
1819 [SY] - 1825 [EY] → Owner
John Thatcher
- 1831 [EY] → Annuitant
Darcus MacNamara
1813 [EA] - → Owner
Francis MacNamara
1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Alexander Scott Broomfield
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Attorney
John Thatcher

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1919 (Belair Estate)
£2,410 12S 0D

Notes

Not yet traced in the compensation records

Estate Information (7)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Name] Belle Air  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

James Harper manager, owned by Francis McNamara.

 
T71/501 617-618
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot)  
[Name] Belle Air  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Thatcher, owner [increase mainly by purchase and imports].

 
T 71/508 424 - 425
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Belle Air  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

James Taitt, agent for John Thatcher, owner [increase mainly by purchase and imports].

 
T 71/511 187 - 187 v
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] Belle Air  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

James Taitt, attorney, for John Thatcher, owner [increase mainly by births and 1 import].

 
T 71/513 185
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot)  
[Name] Belle Air  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return of Robert C. Crosbie attorney, owned by Alexander Scott Broomfield late the property of John Thatcher.

 
T71/515 2017
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 55(Tot)  
[Name] Belle Air  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Thatcher, attorney, for Alexander Scott Broomfield, owner [increase by 1 birth, 1 import and the remainder by purchase].

 
T 71/517 312 v - 313
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 48(Tot)  
[Name] Belle Air  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Robert Dennistoun, attorney [and W W Cross, also an attorney], for Alexander Scott Broomfield, owner [increase by 1 birth and 1 acquisition].

 
T 71/519 181 v - 183