UCL

Shawbury Park

Jamaica | St Ann

Estate Details

Associated People (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
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
James Austin
1831 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trust beneficiary
William Hazledine Austin
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
James Austin
1834 [EA] - → Executor
John Higginbottom

Associated Claims (1)

Jamaica St Ann 424 (Shawbury Park)
£1,571 14S 11D

Estate Information (3)

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1826
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Austin as proprietor [increase by purchase from G Clarke, Deputy Marshal, mainly of enslaved people registered previously by John Lothian and William Lothian, but some also previously registered by James Thomas Brown Watt, Montague Virgo, S W Rose and Thomas Williams].

 
T 71/46 37-39
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of James Austin as proprietor [increase by purchase of enslaved people at Workhouse, Deputy Marshal and Collecting Constable's sales].

 
T 71/47 [unpaginated]
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

In the possession of John Higginbottom as executor of the late James Austin, deceased [increase in enslaved people by purchase from J McLachlan executor of Hugh Stewart, deceased, and from Deputy Marshal and Collecting Constable at St Ann's.

 
T 71/49 28