UCL

Wilderness

Trinidad | Caroni

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1819 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
James Inglis of Mark Lane
1819 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
John Inglis of Mark Lane
1819 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Rt. Hon. Edward Ellice

Notes

Not yet traced in the compensation records.

Estate Information (5)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 60(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Crop] Cocoa and coffee  
 

Return of Charles Melville owner.

 
T71/501 503-505
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Crop] Cocoa  
 

Charles Melville, proprietor, the estates being mortgaged to Messrs Inglis Ellice & Co., of London [increase by births].

 
T 71/508 386 v - 387
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Crop] Cocoa  
 

Du Moulin Dubois, manager, for the heirs or legal representatives of Charles Melville, deceased, mortgaged to Messrs Inglis, Ellice & Co., of London and at present in the charge of the Depositario General [increase by 2 births, 1 import].

 
T 71/511 408 - 408 v
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Crop] Cocoa  
 

William Pitt, manager, for himself and Louis De Baulon [?], late the property of the heirs of Charles Melville, deceased [increase by 2 births, 1 import].

 
T 71/513 325
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Name] Wilderness  
[Crop] Cocoa  
 

Return of John Edwards agent, owned by Louis Debuchon, late the joint property of Debuchon and Wm Pitt

 
T71/515 1992