Wingfield Manor

Estate Details


Associated People (9)

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
- 1725 [EY] → Owner
- 1749 [EY] → Owner
- 1788 [EY] → Owner

The Jeffreason family rented out Wingfield Manor to Charles Pym and then the Earls of Romney.

1828 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
Other

Shown as the origin of 103 enslaved people on Wingfield Manor in 1825.

1788 [SY] - 1824 [EY] → Owner

In his will (proved in 1825) Christopher Jeaffreson directed that a rent charge of £200 each half-year be paid from the profits and rents of 'my Wingfield Manor estate' on St Kitts.

1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Other

Thomas Marr registered the enslaved in 1825.

1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

George and Robert Dennistoun & Co., owners

1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession

George and Robert Dennistoun & Co., owners


Associated Claims (1)

£4,308 19S 0D

Estate Information (7)

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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Wingfield Manor  
 

Return of George and Robert Dennistoun and Co, joint owners; returned by Thomas Marr, registering capacity not given; 103 enslaved people were transferred from John Tyson Esq; the name of estate is only listed in index.

 
T 71/256 127-132
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Wingfield  
 

Return of Walter Williamson, owner; 189 enslaved people were purchased from Messrs Macqueen Mackay and Co St. Thomas, Middle Island

 
T 71/258 144-149
1828
[Size] 714  
[Crop] sugar cane  
 

Cane Land 139.2.32
Other Land 574.1.20 Total 714.0.12

 
New Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon 1828
1828
[Name] Wingfield Manor  
[Size] 714  
 

Listed in St Thomas Middle Island as an estate of 714 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 139 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) General Jeffraison.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 179(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Walter Williamson, owner.

 
T 71/259 155-156
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
[Name] Count William's Estate  
 

Return of Walter Williamson, owner; 84 enslaved people were purchased from Stedman Rawlins Esq.

 
T 71/260 177 to 179
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Walter Williamson, owner.

 
T 71/260 179 to 180