Bridget Ross

Profile & Legacies Summary

No Dates

Biography

Slave-owner on St Vincent, owner or tenant-for-life of the Belmont estate which she conveyed to her son John Pemberton Ross in 1809. She appears the year previously to have carved out land from the original Belmont estate to sell to James Lacroix as the basis of Golden Vale.

Further Information

Absentee?

Spouse

Andrew Ross

Children

John Pemberton

Associated Estates (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

1808 [EA] - 1809 [LA] → Not known

Belmont [ St Vincent ]

Bridget Ross was party to two separate deeds, one of 1808 and one of 1809 concerning the Belmont estate: in the first she contracted to sell part of the land to James Lacroix; in the second she conveyed the estate to her son John Pemberton Ross.

1808 [EA] - 1808 [LA] → Seller

Golden Vale [ St Vincent ]

Seller of land to James Lacroix that came to form [part of] Golden Vale.