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Melville Ormsary and Strath Campbell

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1815 [EA] - → Previous owner
John Barnwell
1815 [EA] - 1829 [EY] → Owner
Farquhard Campbell

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 591 (Melville Ormsary and Strath Campbell)
£10,725 19S 5D

Estate Information (4)

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1815
[Name] Melville  
 

Demerara & Essequibo Royal Gazette 18/11/1815 'Transports & mortgages': Farquhar Campbell bought Melville estate in 1815 from John Barnwell. ' By John Barnwell, Transport of all his Right, Title, and Interest in Plantation Melville, situated in the Mahaica Creek, known sub. No. 20, with all the Buildings thereon - to Farquhar Campbell', accessed 10/10/2018 through https://www.vc.id.au/edg/18151118derg.html

 
Demerara & Essequibo Royal Gazette 18/11/1815
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 238(Tot) 107(F) 131(M)  
[Name] Melville  
 

N. [A?] Campbell as atty of F. Campbell prop.

 
T71/397 M6 1834
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot) 106(F) 116(M)  
[Name] Melville Ormsary and Strath Campbell  
 

In lawful possession of Farquhar Campbell by his attorney Andrew Jackson

 
T71/4177 1404-1409
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot) 101(F) 97(M)  
[Name] Melville Ormsary and Strath Campbell  
 

Belonging to Pln Melville Ormsary and Strath Campbell in lawful possession of Andrew Jackson for himself and the other executors and trustees of the will of the late Farquhar Campbell decd.

 
T71/429 75-80