David Park

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1820

Biography

Partner with Robert Orr (q.v.) as merchant and slave-owner in Trinidad. The two men appear to have died within a short space of each other between 1819 and 1822. Their firm was connected with William Lushington & Co, possibly as local agents and attorneys.

Sources

London Gazette 17659 12 December 1820 p. 2330 shows the assignees of William Lushington the younger asking permission to ship goods paid for by his estate and ordered by Messrs Park and Orr (presumably estate supplies).

Associated Estates (4)

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 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Joint owner

La Puerta [ Trinidad | Diego Martin ]

1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner

La Puerta [ Trinidad | Diego Martin ]

1819 [EA] - 1819 [LA] → Attorney

Union [ Trinidad | North Naparima ]

1822 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Not known

Union [ Trinidad | North Naparima ]

'Heirs of Park And Orr' were shown against Union estate in 1822 and 1825, possibly as co-owners with the heirs of Sir Thomas Picton, although in 1819 the firm of Park & Orr had been described only as attornies of the mortgagees.