UCL

Meldrum Estate

Grenada | Carriacou

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
1784 [SY] - 1785 [EY] → Owner
John 'Jock' Urquhart of Carriacou

Jock purchased the remaining moity from his cousin William in 1784 for nearly £3000. He died in 1785, leaving his brother William Urqhuart of Craigston as his heir.

1785 [SY] - 1796 [EY] → Owner
William Urquhart of Craigston (1741-1796)
1780 [EA] - 1784 [EY] → Joint owner
William Urquhart of Meldrum
1780 [EA] - 1784 [EY] → Joint owner
John 'Jock' Urquhart of Carriacou
1787 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Manager
Sir William Arbuthnot 1st bart.

Managed Craigston and Meldrum for his uncle William Urqhuart

1804 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
William Robertson of Carriacou
1817 [EA] - → Owner
John Urquhart of Craigston
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
William Urquhart of Craigston, d. 1847
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
George McLean
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
George McLean

Associated Claims (1)

Grenada 994 (Meldrum Estate)
£2,648 19S 5D

Notes

Surveys, deeds and letters relating to the Craigston and Meldrum estates, 1769-1841 are held at Craigston Castle near Turriff in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. H. Gordon Slade, 'Craigston and Meldrum Estates, Carriacou,1769-1841', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114 (1984), 481-537. See http://www.islandtrees.com/IMAGES/Craigston.pdf [accessed 05/03/2020].

Estate Information (9)

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1784
[Name] Meldrum  
 

Jock Urqhuart purchased the moity of his cousin William Urquhart, making Jock the sole owner of the estate

 
H. Gordon Slade, 'Craigston and Meldrum Estates, Carriacou,1769-1841', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114 (1984), 481-537. See http://www.islandtrees.com/IMAGES/Craigston.pdf [accessed 05/03/2020].
1785
[Name] Meldrum  
 

Bequeathed by Jock Urquhart to his eldest brother William Urqhuart

 
H. Gordon Slade, 'Craigston and Meldrum Estates, Carriacou,1769-1841', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114 (1984), 481-537. See http://www.islandtrees.com/IMAGES/Craigston.pdf [accessed 05/03/2020].
1796
[Name] Meldrum  
 

Bequeathed by William Urqhuart to his eldest son John Urquhart

 
H. Gordon Slade, 'Craigston and Meldrum Estates, Carriacou,1769-1841', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 114 (1984), 481-537. See http://www.islandtrees.com/IMAGES/Craigston.pdf [accessed 05/03/2020].
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] Meldrum Estate  
 

William Robertson as attorney to John Urquhart.

 
T71/267 259-260
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot) 43(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Meldrum Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of John Stewart as Attorney to William Urquhart, the Proprietor.

 
T71/285 251-252
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot) 43(F) 45(M)  
[Name] Meldrum Estate  
 

Belonging to William Urquhart proprietor and in possession of William Robertson attorney.

 
T71/299 281-282
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot) 46(F) 48(M)  
[Name] Meldrum Estate  
 

Belonging to or in the lawful possession of George McLean as Proprietor and Attorney for William Urquhart.

 
T71/311 28-29
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 48(F) 50(M)  
[Name] Meldrum Estate  
 

Belonging to Meldrum Estate for the Year 1832, and in the lawful possession of George McLean Proprietor and attorney to William Urquhart.

 
T71/317 39-40
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot) 47(F) 55(M)  
[Name] Meldrum  
 

Meldrum estate in the island of Carriacou. George MacLean, proprietor and attorney for William Urquhart.

 
T71/328 40-44