UCL

Folly

Montserrat

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
1817 [EA] - 1820 [EY] → Owner
William Brade of Forton Lodge
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Heir
William Brade of Liverpool

Co-heir and trustee of his uncle William Brade of Liverpool.

Associated Claims (1)

Montserrat 64 (Folly)
£2,497 3S 3D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
[Name] Folly  
 

Returned by John Queely Fagan, attorney of William Brade Esquire of Liverpool in Great Britain, owner of the Folly Estate in the Parish of Saint Peter in [Montserrat] and the slaves thereupon and thereunto belonging.

 
T 71/447 299-304
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Folly  
 

Returned by John Queely Fagan, attorney to the representatives of William Brade, late of Liverpool in Great Britian, owner of the Folly Estate in the Parish of Saint Peter in this island and the [enslaved people] there upon and there unto belonging.

 
T 71/448 132-136
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Name] Folly  
 

Returned by Dudley Semper, attorney to the representatives of William Brade Esq. decd., late of Liverpool in Great Britain, owner.

 
T 71/449 81-85
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Folly  
 

Return of the representatives of William Brade Esquire, late of Liverpool in Great Britian, deceased, owner; returned by Robert Dobridge, attorney; total of enslaved does not include one enslaved man 'named Saint John who escaped [from Monsterrat] on 15 July 1827 and who [was] supposed to be secreted in the island of St. Kitts by some person or persons unknown'.

 
T 71/450 175-179
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] Folly  
 

Return of the representatives of James Brade, late of Liverpool in Great Britain Esq., deceased, owner, returned by John Dobridge, attorney. Total of enslaved people given in the return does not include 'a man named Saint John who escaped [from Montserrat] on the 15th day of July 1827 and who [was] supposed to be secreted in the island of St Kitts by some person or persons unknown'.

 
T 71/451 169-173