Sir Wastel Brisco 2nd Bart.

Profile & Legacies Summary

1778 - 1^st Oct 1862

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Son of Sir John Brisco 1st bart., and Caroline Alicia Fleming, daughter of Gilbert Fane Fleming and grand-daughter of Gilbert Fleming, Deputy Governor of the Leewards.

Married Sarah Lester Ladbrooke at St Marylebone 18/11/1806; divorced in a spectacular conflict in the late 1810s; will of Sir Wastel Brisco of Crofton Hall in the parish of Thursby Cumberland who died 01/10/1862 proved 13/02/1863 by Sir Robert Brisco of Crofton Hall the son the sole executor, personal estate under £14000.
Sir Wastel Brisco inherited among other property on St Kitts Shadwell Great House, which is extant.

Sources

George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K., Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), Vol. V, p. 223.

Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1863.
Heritage Sites of St Kitts http://www.stkittsheritage.com/h_sites_plantation.html [accessed 26/04/2011].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Name in compensation records

Sir Wastel Briscoe

Spouse

Sarah Lester Ladbrooke

Children

Robert (1808-1884), Hylton (1810-1896), Wastel (1812-1835)

Wealth at death

£14,000

University

Oxford (Christ Church) [1797-1800 ]

Legal Education

Inner Temple (12/02/1801); Lincoln's Inn (19/11/1801) [1801 ]

Associated Claims (4)

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

1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Owner

Flemings Salt Pond [ St Kitts | St George Basseterre ]

1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner

Grange [ St Kitts | St Mary Cayon ]

1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Owner

Priddies Salt Pond [ St Kitts | St George Basseterre ]

1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner

Shadwell Park & Westhope Estate [ St Kitts | St George Basseterre ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house

Orton Park (originally Hylton Castle)

Details

description →

Orton Park, originally Hylton Castle, built in the 1830s by Sir Wastel Brisco for his son Hylton. Mid 19th additions. Grade II; at on point, a County Council Home, but sold c. 2011....