UCL

Colebrooke's

Antigua

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
- 1809 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
Sir George Colebrooke 2nd Bart.

Sir George Colebrooke is also identifiable with reasonable confidence as one of the annuitants for £200 p.a.on these estates shown in 1792

- 1818 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
Dame Mary Colebrooke (née Gaynor)

Dame Mary Colebrooke is also identifiable with reasonable confidence as one of the annuitants for £200 p.a.on these estates shown in 1792.

1835 [SY] - → Owner
John Adams Wood
1821 [EA] - 1835 [EY] → Owner
Sir James Edward Colebrooke

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 263 (Colebrooke's)
£2,230 14S 9D

Estate Information (8)

What is this?

1792
[Name] Gaynor's Westward Plantation  
 

In 1792 were advertised for sale in London (1) an annuity of £200 p.a. on the Creek, Gaynor's Windward and Brecknock estates for the life of a gentleman of 62 and lady of 51; the estate themselves for the life of the annuitants and subject to the annuity. (London Gazette 13411 01/05/1792 p. 275).

 
London Gazette 13411 01/05/1792 p. 275
1796
 

The sale of the mortgage interest of Earl and Countess Tankerville and Sir John Aubrey bart. in Sir George Colebrooke's estates [and enslaved people] on Antigua announced on 30/07/1796 for 27/08/1796 was cancelled 13/08/1796 without explanation. Sir George Colebrooke's nieces had married Charles Earl of Tankerville and Sir John Aubrey, but the nature of their 'mortgage interest' has yet to be established by LBS.

 
London Gazette 13917 30/08/1796 p.737; 13921 13/08/1796 p.774
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 233(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Athill attorney to Lady Colebrooke prop. Inferred to be Colebrookes and possibly including Brecknock as a combined entry.

 
T71/245 315-320
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Farr attorney to Sir James Edward Colebrooke bart., proprietor. Inferred to be Colebrooke's and possibly Brecknock, which by 1834 was shown separately.

 
T71/247 77-83
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 240(Tot)  
[Name] Colebrooke's Windward Plantation  
 

John Farr attorney to Sir James Edward Colebrooke bart., proprietor. A note on p. 239 gives 'Colebrookes' Windward Plantation.' Inferred possibly to include Brecknock, which by 1834 was shown separately.

 
T71/248 239-244
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 234(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Farr, attorney to Sir James Edward Colebrooke baronet prop. Inferred to be Colebrooke's and possibly Brecknock, which by 1834 was shown separately.

 
T71/249 115-120
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

Samuel Athill Turner, attorney to Sir James Edward Colebrooke baronet prop. Inferred to be Colebrooke's and possibly Brecknock, which by 1834 was shown separately.

 
T71/250 136-140
1835
[Name] Colebrooke's  
 

By an indenture of 13/11/1835 Sir James Edward Colebrooke and Dame Louisa Ann conveyed the estates of Peter Gaynor to John Adams Wood. The estates were described as: 'all those 2 plantations formerly belonging to Peter Gaynor, formerly called the Creek plantation and Gaynor's Windward Plantation but now or lately Mangrove Plantation and Colebrooke's or the Windward estate both in the parish of St John....and all that plantation called Brecknock, in the parish of St John.'

 
Vere Langford Oliver 'History of Antigua Vol.II pp.9-11