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Lamberts

St Kitts | St Thomas Middle Island

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
- 1797 [EY] → Lessee
Alexander Douglas of Baads
- 1757 [EY] → Owner
Priscilla Lambert

The two lots of land held by 'Mrs Priss[a] Lambert' in Samuel Baker's 1753 map corresponds with the estate marked Sir James Douglas in William McMahon's 1828 map, north of St Thomas Church (1753) or Middle Island Church (1828).

1795 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Sir James Douglas Bart.

Sir James, who died in 1795, is listed as the owner of Lamberts estate on all of the St. Kitts slave registers and the 1828 Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon.

1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Manager
William Augustus Vaughan
1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Manager
Richard Edward Cardin

T 71/256; T 71/258

1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Manager
Lieut. Edward Hooker Chiles R.N.
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Richard Edward Cardin

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 635 (Lamberts)
£2,944 4S 6D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Sir James Douglas, owner; returned by William A Vaughan, manager.

 
T 71/253 215-220
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Sir James Douglas Bart., owner; returned by William Augustus Vaughan, manager.

 
T 71/255 31
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Lambert's  
 

Return of Sir James Douglas, owner; returned by Richard Edward Cardin, manager.

 
T 71/256 133-134
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Lamberts  
 

Returned by Richard Edward Cardin, manager of the estate of Sir James Douglas, owner. St. Thomas, Middle Island

 
T 71/258 41-42
1828
[Name] Lamberts  
[Size] 285  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Thomas Middle Island as an estate of 285 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 161 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Sir James Douglas deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] Lamberts  
 

Return of Sir James Douglas Bart., owner; returned by Edward H Chiles, manager.

 
T 71/259 48-49
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 172(Tot)  
[Name] Lambert Estate  
 

Return of Sir James Douglas, owner; returned by Richard Edward Cardin, attorney.

 
T 71/260 49