Bourryau

[Mortgage] 00/00/00001763  

EAP 148/4/4 Indenture by which John Bourryau of Blightborough in the county of Lincoln at present residing in the island of Saint Christopher leases to Culling Smith of Red Lyon Square in the Parish of Saint George the Martyr in the county of Middlesex, England, various plantations [described as at Christ Church Nicola Town] in the island of Saint Christopher, https://eap.bl.uk/archive-file/EAP148-4-4 [accessed 25/09/2018].

[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Lower Bourryau  

Return of Bourryeau's [Bourryau's] estates; returned by Charles Forrester, manager; two estates are entered together as "Bourryeau's Estates" on pages 380-390, but totals of the enslaved people on each estate are given separately.

T 71/253 380-386

[Number of enslaved people] 175(Tot)  
[Name] Upper Bourryau  

Return of Bourryeau's estates; returned by Charles Forrester, manager; two estates are entered together as "Bourryeau's Estates" on pages 380-390, but totals for the enslaved attached to each estate is given separately.

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[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Upper  

Return of John Bourryau , owner; returned by Charles Bryan, manager.

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[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Lower  

Return of John Bourryau, owner; returned by Charles Bryan, manager.

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[Number of enslaved people] 210(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Lower Estate  

Return of [no first name given] Bourryau, owner; returned by Charles Bryan, manager.

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[Number of enslaved people] 159(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Upper Estate  

Return of [no first name given] Bourryau, owner; returned by Charles Bryan, manager.

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[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Lower Estate  

Returned by Charles Bryan, manager to Peter John Luard Esquire, owner. Christ Church, Nichola Town

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[Number of enslaved people] 160(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Upper Estate  

Returned by Charles Bryan, manager to Peter John Luard Esquire, owner. Christ Church, Nichola Town

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[Number of enslaved people] 183(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Lower Estate  

Returned by Mannings and Anderdon are lessees of this estate; 183 enslaved people were leased from Peter John Luard, owner; Jan 1, 1828.

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[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Upper Estate  

Mannings and Anderdon, lessees; 145 enslaved people were leased from Peter John Luard on Jan 1, 1828.

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[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 370  
[Crop] sugar  

The map key lists two estates belonging to John Bourryau. However, as they are not named, it is not possible to determine which is the upper estate and which is the lower estate without further research.

1. Listed in Christ Church, Nichola Town as an estate of 189 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 118 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Bourryau deceased.

2. Listed in Christ Church, Nichola Town as an estate of 181 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 136 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) John Bourryau deceased.

William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)

[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Lower Estate  

Return of Peter John Luard, owner; Mannings and Anderdon are lessees of this estate and are named along with the manager in the column headed "Name and Description of the Persons making the Return'. The owner Luard is not listed there, but rather his name is found within the entry.

T 71/259 18-23

[Number of enslaved people] 328(Tot)  
[Name] Upper and Lower Estates  

Return of Peter J Luard, owner; returned by Charles Woodley, attorney; 328 enslaved people were delivered over to Mannings and Anderdon, lessees of the estates; names of those sold are listed, but those who were handed over to the lessees are not named individually here. 30 enslaved people were sold: (9 to T H Earle of O Gee Estate; 5 to Anthony Pogson, 5 to Charles Woodley, 2 to James W Penehoen, 2 to Dr Charles Bryan, 1 to Charles Bryan Jr, 1 to Emanuel Perrol, 1 to Howard Clifton, 1 to Andrew Young, 2 to the Moravian Missionary, 1 to the estate of Compton and Pole, 1 to Henry Henderson, 1 to Samuel O'Loughlin, 1 to Maria Welch, 1 to M Chambers, 1 to the estate of Mannings and Anderdon CO, and 1 to Anthony Pogson).

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[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Lower Estate  

177 enslaved people were received by Henry Luard and Edward Probyn Nares, trustees, "from Mannings and Anderdon as lessees on the 31st December 1831".

T 71/260 79-83

[Number of enslaved people] 145(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Upper Estate  

Return of Peter John Luard, owner; returned by William Adamson, manager; Mannings and Anderdon are the lessees of this estate.

T 71/259 14-18

[Name] Upper and Lower Estates  

Return of Upper and Lower Bourryau were returned together in the 1831 slave register; see the entry for Lower Bourryau for more information.

T 71/259 70-71

[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Lower Estate  

Return of Henry Luard and Edward Probyn Nares, trustees; returned by Adam Stevens, attorney and manager; the estate is listed as Lower Bourryau's in the index.

T 71/260 79 to 84

[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Bourryau Upper Estate  

Return of Henry Luard and Edward Probyn Nares, joint owners; returned by Adam Stevens, attorney and manager; 148 enslaved people were "received from Mannings and Anderdon as lessees".

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