UCL

Whim Estate

Tobago | St David

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
1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Joint owner
Rev. James Hamilton

Tenant-in-common

1834 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
Rev. John Hamilton
- 1817 [EY] → Not known
Charles Hamilton

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 34 (Whim Estate)
£1,199 2S 7D

Notes

Original grantee George Young under St David no. 8, 'Present proprietors c. 1774 Stevenson & Bremner; in 1832 the owners were 'J & J Hamilton'; the estate was still in cultivation in 1862 when the present proprietors were Oniel & Simpson.

Sources

'Tables showing the Lots in each Parish, numbered as originally granted - the original Grantee - the name of the Lot, or lots, if one has been acquired, and the present Possessor where there is one' and 'A Table, showing the Estates in cultivation in 1832, and their Owners, in 1832, copied from the list appended to Byres' map of that date, with those in cultivation in 1862', Henry Iles Woodcock, A History of Tobago (Ayr: Smith and Grant, 1867; new impression London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, 1971).

Estate Information (3)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot) 92(F) 99(M)  
[Name] Whim  
 

Return made by Alexander Reid manager

 
T71/462 353-359
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot) 82(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Whim  
 

Samuel McEachnie [also given as Macochnie] manager

 
T71/474 82
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot) 77(F) 80(M)  
[Name] Whim  
 

Saml. McEachnie manager

 
T71/481 81