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Woodley Park

British Guiana

Estate Details

Associated People (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
1822 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Joint owner
Michael Samuel Bennett

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 494 (Woodley Park)
£3,671 8S 1D

Estate Information (6)

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1809
[Number of enslaved people] 129(Tot)  
[Name] Sandy Gut  
 

Registered to the heirs of Samuel Smith.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1811) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL11Cath.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of 1809.
1815
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Sandy-Gut  
[Stock] 63  
 

Registered to Timperon and Co.

 
Jamaica Almanac (1816) transcribed at http://www.jamaicanfamilysearch.com/Members/AL15stiv.htm. The almanac entries were based on the givings-in for the March Quarter of the previous year.
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Woodley Park  
 

Return of slaves the property of Messrs James and M.S. Bennett attached to plan Woodley Park being part of Lot no.11 West Coast, the return made by the latter. Number formerly returned by James Bennett 22. Additions 50 (27M 23F) deductions 5 (5M) total 67. The new enslaved people on the estate were purchased primarily from M.S. Bennett himself (11), D. Allt (16) and Mrs Beresford (15).

 
T71/442 175-178
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 67(Tot)  
[Name] Woodley Park  
 

Return of slaves the property of Messrs James and M.S. Bennett attached to Pln. Woodley Park, the return made by M. S. Bennett

 
T71/443 527-528
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Woodley Park  
 

Return of slaves the property of Messrs James and M.S. Bennett attached to Pln. Woodley Park, the return made by M. S. Bennett

 
T71/444 49-52
1834
[Name] Woodley Park  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

The Woodley Park estate, the property of M.S. Bennett, was subject to sequestration in 1833 at the instigation of Charles Bird, and put up for sale together with the enslaved people attached to it in 1834.

 
London Gazette 24 January 1834Issue:19122Page:154