Mount Lucy or Blackman's

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
- 1781 [EY] → Owner

Rowland Blackman of Bath in his will made in 1777 referred to his unspecified estate on Antigua on which was secured an annuity of £300 p.a. to his wife Priscilla Blackman. It is known however that his father John Blackman later John Lucie Blackman (will proved 1726) was 'of Mount Lucy estates in Barbados and Antigua', that Rowland Blackman's heirs were his daughters, and that Rowland Blackman's son-in-law Hon. W. H. Irby was later the owner of Mount Lucy or Blackmans on Antigua.

1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Joint owner
1824 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Joint owner
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner

Associated Claims (1)

£2,043 7S 10D

Notes

Inferred association with 1817 Salve Register


Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Athill attorney to Anna Maria Blackman and William Henry Irby, proprietors

 
T71/245 337-340
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Farr attorney to Anna Maria Blackman and William Henry Irby proprietors.

 
T71/247 67-70
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 137(Tot)  
[Name] Blackman's  
 

John Farr acting attorney to the Hon. William Henry Irby and W.H.R. Irby, proprietors Blackman's plantation

 
T71/248 251-254
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Farr attorney to the Hon. William Henry Irby and William H.R. Irby, proprietors

 
T71/249 418-420
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Farr attorney to William H.K. [sic] Irby, proprietor

 
T71/250 389-391