F.R. Braithwaite

Hon. Miles Braithwaite was born on 05/05/1756 and baptised on 09/05/1792 at St. Philip, Barbados. He married Elizabeth Moe in 1786 and the pair went on to have eighteen children. Previously, he had a daughter, Margaret Ann Brathwaite, in 1780, whose mother was a black enslaved woman. One of his sons, also Miles Brathwaite [1801-1857], married Elizabeth Jane Welch with whom he had twelve children. Their eldest daughter Elizabeth Jane Brathwaite [1825-1903], who married (1) in 1846 John Wickham Redwood, later Langham W. Ledeatt [1819-1848] and (2) in 1851 William Walker Shand [1821-1867], son of Francis Shand the elder (q.v.).

The Arnos Vale Estate was sold by the West India Encumbered Estates Court to F.R. Braithwaite of St Kitts on 1 November 1858 for £10,050. At the time, the estate was 454 acres in size. The historian Reginald Cust notes that this sum of over ten thousand pounds was much higher than expected.

We are grateful to Stephen Lewis and Terry Sancroft Baker for their assistance in compiling this entry.

Sir Reginald John Cust, A Treatise on the West Indian Incumbered Estates Acts: 17 and 18 Vict., C. 117-21 and 22 Vict., C. 96; 25 and 26 Vict., C. 45-27 and 28 Vict., C. 108. With an Appendix, Containing the Acts, General Rules, Forms, and Directions, Additional Forms, Local Acts, Tables of Fees, Solicitor's Fees and Charges. And Reports of Cases (heard Before Henry James Stonor, Esq., Chief Commissioner). W. Amer, 1865, p. 218.