UCL

Lower Estate or Lower Windward

Montserrat

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
- 1763 [EY] → Owner
Thomas Meade

Tentative association. He owned "Windward and New Windward"

1817 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Previous owner
James Trant
1824 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Dominick Trant

Associated Claims (1)

Montserrat 15 (Lower Estate or Lower Windward)
£1,977 9S 3D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of the heirs of James Trant, joint owners; returned by his executor Queely Shiell. This return seems to concern Lower Estate or Lower Windward Estate.

 
T 71/447 347-352
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 136(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of the heirs at law of James Trant, joint owners; returned by the executor, Queely Shiell. This return seems to concern Lower Estate or Lower Windward Estate.

 
T 71/448 184-187
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Returned by Dominick Trant, owner; notes that the enslaved were previously registered by the heirs at law of the late James Trant. This return seems to concern Lower or Lower Windward Estate.

 
T 71/449 201-205
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 132(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Dominick Trant, owner, 'at present absent from [Montserrat] in the Kingdom of Great Britain'; returned by Charles Venn, attorney. This return seems to concern Lower or Lower Windward Estate.

 
T 71/450 62-66
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Dominick Trant, owner; returned by Thomas Whitford, attorney. Notes that Trant was 'absent from the island in the Kingdom of Great Britain'. This return seems to concern Lower or Lower Windward Estate.

 
T 71/451 62-66