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L'Esperance

British Guiana | Berbice | Berbice - East Bank

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1828 [EA] - 16/01/1828 [ED] → Owner
Wilhelmina Elisabeth Esther Retemeyer (née Heijtmeijer or Heytmeyer)
1828 [EA] - → Other
Wilhelm Christiaan Retemeyer or Retemeijer

Purchaser of some of these enslaved people

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 287A & B (L'Esperance)
£2,485 10S 3D

Notes

The 1818 and 1828 associations are speculative

Estate Information (6)

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1794
[Name] L'Esperance  
 

Plantagie L'Esperance. Eigenaar [owner] Hendrik Heytmeyer; Adminis. Hendrik Heytmeyer; Directeur J.W. Heytmeyer.

 
Naam-Lyst der Bestierders, officieren, bediendens en plantagien op de colonie de Berbice (Amsterdam, 1794) [transcribed by Paul Koulen, 2011] p. 12
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 165(Tot) 83(F) 82(M)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
 

Return of slaves attached to Plantation L'Esperance situate on the East Bank of the River Berbice the property of the estate and heir of the late J.W. Heytmeyer deceased, this return made by Hendrik Staal 04/12/1817.

 
T71/437 166-168
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
 

The property of Miss W.E.E. Heytmeyer by Simon Fraser, sequestrator

 
T71/443 3-4
1831
[Name] L'Esperance  
 

The property of Miss W.E.E. Retemeyer [Heytmeyer?] and attached to Pln L'Esperance 'sold on the 16th January 1828'. The entry recorded the sale of the enslaved people previously registered there (122) to a number of buyers including C.A. Knegt, L'Enterprise, W.C. Retemeyer and several others.

 
T71/444 830-837
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
 

Return of slaves attached to Pln Esperance the property of C.A. Knegt, return by C.A. Knegt. The enslaved people (and presumably the land and equipment) had been purchased by Knegt from the sequestrators at the execution sale of pln L'Esperance.

 
T71/444 295-298
1832
[Name] L'Esperance  
[Crop] Coffee  
 

In 1832, after C.A. Knegt had yielded the estate voluntarily to J.B. Moens and Charles Dauncey, his mortgagees, the estate was put up for sale.

 
London Gazette 24 August 1832Issue:18969Page:1941