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Romneys

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
- 1793 [EY] → Owner
Robert Marsham, 2nd Baron Romney

In Samuel Baker's 1753 map, 'The Rt Hon Lord Romney' is shown against two estates, one in St Thomas Middle Island consistent with Romneys, and one in St George Basseterre, which in William McMahon's 1828 map was given as 'Mornes Est. of Earl Romney' (in 1828 Earl Romney is also marked on what appears to be undeveloped land further south in St George Basseterre). Mornes has not yet been identified in the Slave Registers or the compensation records. It is possible that the enslaved people on both estates were registered under a single entry. The Romney estate was part of a settlement made by Robert Marsham on his son later the 1st Earl of Romney on the latter's marriage.

1817 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Owner
Charles Marsham, 2nd Earl of Romney
1741 [EA] - → Heir
Priscilla Marsham, Lady Romney (née Pym)
1793 [EA] - 1811 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Charles Marsham, 1st Earl of Romney

LBS has assumed the estates were entailed in the marriage settlement of Charles Marsham 1st Earl of Romney

1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Attorney
Richard Cardin
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Manager
Richard Cardin
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Manager
John Cardin

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 636 (Romneys)
£4,324 18S 11D

Notes

The Romney Plantation Archives or Romney Papers covering 1742-1860 were acquired by the Museum of London in Docklands 2011/12.

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 314(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Earl of Romney, owner; returned by Richard Cardin, attorney.

 
T 71/253 429-438
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 309(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of the Right Honorable the Earl of Romney, owner; returned by Richard Cardin, attorney.

 
T 71/255 91-92
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 296(Tot)  
[Name] Romney's  
 

Return of the Right Hon the Earl of Romney, owner; returned by Richard Cardin, attorney; the index lists the owner as 'Lord Romney'; the name of the estate is only found in the index.

 
T 71/256 342 345
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 282(Tot)  
[Name] Romney's  
 

Return of Return of Charles Earl of Romney, owner; returned by his attorney, Richard Cardin. St. Thomas, Middle Island

 
T 71/258 112-114
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 384  
[Crop] sugar and others  
 

Listed in St Thomas Middle Island as an estate of 384 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 134 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Earl Romney.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Size] 94  
[Crop] Sugar Cane  
 

Cane Land: 87.1.22
Other Land: 6.2.32
Total Land: 94.0.14

 
New Map of St. Kitts by Surveyor William McMahon 1828
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 268(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Right Hon the Earl of Romney, owner; returned by Richard Cardin, attorney and manager.

 
T 71/259 8
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 272(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of the Right Hon the Earl of Romney, owner; returned by John Cardin Esq, manager.

 
T 71/260 150 to 151