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Broom Hall

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
Joint owner
John Proctor

There is ambiguity between the Slave Registers and the compensation records as to whether John Proctor was alive or dead in the 1820s and 1830s.

- 1817 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Bond of Lancaster
Heir
Abraham Rawlinson of Fakenham, Norfolk

One of the heirs under the will of Thomas Rawlinson: the heirs of Thomas Rawlinson were shown as co-owners between 1817 and 1834.

1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Rawlinson
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
Thomas Lowthian
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
Josias Booker
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Joint owner
John Bond of Lancaster

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 608A & B (Broom Hall)
£9,875 5S 8D

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot) 74(F) 79(M)  
[Name] Broomhall [sic]  
 

Thos. Lowthian registered 153 enslaved people on Broomhall in 1817 as atty of heirs of Rawlinson.

 
T71/397 1303
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot) 78(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Broom Hall  
 

Josias Booker attorney.

 
T71/413 B1
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 178(Tot) 85(F) 93(M)  
[Name] Broom Hall  
 

Broom Hall estate Little Courabanna, in the possession of heirs of Thomas Rawlinson, J. Bond and John Proctor, by Josias Booker qq.

 
T71/414 119-123
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot) 93(F) 98(M)  
[Name] Broom Hall  
 

Broom Hall in the possession of heirs of Thomas Rawlinson, J. Bond and John Proctor, by William Booker qq.

 
T71/429 21-26