UCL

Willis Freemans

Antigua

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
1750 [SY] - 1810 [EY] → Owner
Mary Willis (née Freeman)
- 1777 [EY] → Owner
Joseph Webb Willis
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Heir
Lydia Sutton (née Byam)

Her husband claimed compensation as owner-in-fee in 1834, but she was tenant-in-tail under the will of Mary Willis nee Freeman.

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 395 (Willis Freemans)
£1,736 9S 7D

Notes

Association of Willis Freeman estate with entry in 1817 and 1824 Slave Registers inferred

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Osborn attorney to Robert Sutton proprietor in right of Lydia his wife

 
T71/244 199-202
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 131(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Osborn attorney of the estate of Mrs Mary Willis deceased

 
T71/246 524-527
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Osborn attorney of the estate of Mrs Mary Willis deceased proprietor

 
T71/248 572-574
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Osborn attorney of the estate of Mrs Mary Willis deceased proprietor

 
T71/249 756-758
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Osborn attorney of the estate of Mrs Mary Willis deceased proprietor

 
T71/250 698-700