UCL

Patrick O'Flaherty

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Biography

Owner of an estate on Nevis (possibly Zetland) which he mortgaged in the 1760s and which was described as late his estate in 1774. In 1769 he was described as late of Nevis and now of Westminster. A man of the same name shown as of St Vincent sold land and 35 enslaved people to Florence McCarthy in 1787. LBS has not traced him further but Thady O'Flaherty, whose will of Isleworth was proved 06/07/1790, was party to one of the deeds for Nevis. Thady O'Flaherty's will is silent on slave-property: he left several thousand pounds of monetary legacies to a network of connections in Ireland and England, and made his sister Catherine O'Flaherty of Galway his residuary legatee.


Sources

Caribbeana II p. 239; https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/2192395 [accessed 31/12/2020]; Deed Book 1787, British Library, EAP688/1/1/2, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP688-1-1-2 p. 209.

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish?

Associated Estates (1)

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
1774 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Previous owner
Zetland [ Nevis ]

LBS has inferred O'Flaherty's unnamed estate in deeds of 1768, 1769 and 1774 to have been Zetland.