UCL

Galways

Montserrat

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
- 1834 [LA] → Owner
Susan Batt (née Neave)
- 1821 [LA] → Joint owner
Dr John White

According to his will (proved 1821), John White owned a sixth share in Galways, which he left to his wife Elizabeth nee White. See entry for John White for more details.

1821 [SY] - → Joint owner
Elizabeth White
- 1794 [EY] → Owner
James Neave of Nunton
1765 [EA] - 1774 [LA] → Owner
Tobias Wall Gallwey

In 1765, Tobias Wall Gallwey (given as Galway) leased the Galway estate to Henry and John Dyer for 9 years at £500 p.a.

1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
James Neave of Nunton

Associated Claims (1)

Montserrat 238 (Galways)
£2,588 8S 7D

Notes

Galways estate has been the subject of significant historical and archaeological investigation over the past 35 years: Lydia M. Pulsipher and Conrad “Mac” Goodwin, with contributions from Jean Howson, '"Getting the essence of it": Galways plantation, Montserrat, West Indies', in Paul Farnsworth (ed.) Island Lives: Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean (University of Alabama Press, 2001) http://www.academia.edu/5702701/Getting_the_Essence_of_It_Galways_Plantation_Montserrat [accessed 31/12/2014].

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Galways  
 

Return of the representatives of James Neave formerly of Great Britain deceased, owner; returned by Richard Symons, acting attorney.

 
T 71/447 224-230
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Galways  
 

Returned by John Queely Fagan, attorney of the representatives of James Neave, formerly of Great Britain, deceased owner of Galways Estate in the Parish of Saint Patrick and the [enslaved people] thereupon and thereunto belonging.

 
T 71/448 138-143
1821
[Name] Galways Plantation  
 

According to his will, proved 1821, Dr John White owned a sixth share in Galways plantation in Montserrat, which he left to his wife Elizabeth.

 
PROB 11/1646/108
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] Galways  
 

Returned by James Phipps Shiell, attorney to the representatives of James Neave, formerly of Great Britain, deceased owner.

 
T 71/449 140-144
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] Galways  
 

Return of the representatives of James Neave, formerly of Great Britian, deceased, owner; Returned by James Phipps Shiell, attorney

 
T 71/450 54-55
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 158(Tot)  
[Name] Galways  
 

Return of Mannings and Anderdon, lessees; returned by Henry Bourne, attorney.

 
T 71/451 146-150