Grand Ance

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
1818 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Joint owner
1818 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Joint owner
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
1825 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner

The Slave Registers are ambiguous as to whether McCracken was still alive in 1834.


Associated Claims (1)

£2,321 16S 10D

Estate Information (8)

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1815
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot)  
[Name] Grande Anse  
 

Return of Charles Aquart, owner; returned by Jean-Marie Aquart, as authorised by his brother Charles Aquart, owner; in French; sugar estate; Dauphin

 
T71/379 312-315
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Anse  
 

Return of Patrick McCracken and J Murchie, joint owners; Veuve C Aquart, previous owner; sugar plantation; in English ; Dauphin

 
T71/381 872
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 95(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Anse  
 

Return of P McCracken and J Muchie, joint owners; sugar plantation; in English; Dauphin

 
T71/383 920
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Anse  
 

Return of P McCracken and the heirs of J Murchie, joint owners; sugar plantation; in English; Dauphin

 
T71/385 1065-1066
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Grande Anse  
 

Return of P McCracken and the heirs of Murchie, joint owners; sugar estate; in English ; Dauphin

 
T71/387 1197
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 93(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Anse  
 

Return of McCracken and Murchie, joint owners; in English; Dauphin

 
T71/388 1359-1360
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 99(Tot)  
[Name] Grand Anse  
 

Return of the heirs of John Murchie and Patrick McCracken, joint owners; sugar plantation; in English; Dauphin

 
T71/390 1551
1849
[Name] Grande Anse  
[Size] 70  
 

Proprietor given as D. Ferguson. 70 acres with a steam mill.

 
Papers on Subjects Connected with the Duties of the Corps of Engineers (1849) vol. 10 p. 228