UCL

Calder Hall Estate

Tobago | St Andrew

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 [SY] - 1834 [EY] → Heir
George Douglas Stoddart
1797 [SY] - 1833 [EY] → Owner
George Douglas of Chilston Park
1766 [SY] - → Owner
Robert Young of Auchenskeoch
- 1797 [EY] → Owner
Alexander Douglas of Baads
1772 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Sir Richard Neave 1st Bart.
1772 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
John Willett

Associated Claims (1)

Tobago 26 (Calder Hall Estate)
£1,101 10S 4D

Notes

Original grantee Robert Young; 'Present Possessor Wm . Pinhero. In 1832 the owner was Geo. Douglas; in 1862 the estate was still in cultivation.

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 (4)

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1772
[Name] Calder Hall  
 

Alexander Douglas of St Kitts and David Young of Grenada mortgaged Calder Hall to Richard Neave and John Willett, and in 1775 pledged 63 enslaved people as further security for £6735 8s 11d [Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection p. 239]

1819
[Number of enslaved people] 89(Tot) 42(F) 47(M)  
[Name] Calder Hall  
 

1819 registration made by Wm Hutchison manager 29/01/1819.

 
T71/462 402-405
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 62(Tot) 31(F) 31(M)  
[Name] Calder Hall  
 

Wm Hay [no capacity given]

 
T71/474 25
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot) 26(F) 27(M)  
[Name] Calderhall  
 

Wm Hay [no capacity given]

 
T71/481 23