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Yorkshire Hall

British Guiana | Demerara

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
- 1801 [LA] → Not known
Ralph Skelton
1834 [EA] - → Owner
Jared Chichester

Associated Claims (1)

British Guiana 818 (Yorkshire Hall)
£725 0S 1D

Estate Information (3)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 49(Tot) 26(F) 23(M)  
[Name] Yorkshire Hall  
 

J. [= T or F?] Skelton proprietor

 
T71/397 Y1 186
1822
[Name] Yorkshire Hall  
 

The West Yorkshire Archive Service at Bradford Library has been reported as holding the will of Mary Skelton late of Little Horton, in which 'in 1823' she left her her "three fourth part share" of the Yorkshire Hall plantation in Demerara to her three sons including "all the negroes and slaves which may, at the time of my decease, be resident or belong to the said plantation."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2007/02/26/slavery_west_yorkshire_feature.shtml" [accessed 18/05/2017]

The will dated 1822 is included on the West Yorkshire Archive Service catalogue but to date the contents of the will have not been verified. It is however also referred to by James Gregory in his article 'Historical perspectives on the transatlantic slave trade in Bradford: abolitionist activity c.1787 ‒ 1865'

http://www.catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=BC00PRE%2f7%2f13 [accessed 18/05/2017].

https://www.academia.edu/3827577/Historical_perspectives_on_the_transatlantic_slave_trade_in_Bradford_Yorkshire_Abolitionist_activity_c.1787_-_1865 [accessed 18/05/2017].

1826
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot) 22(F) 25(M)  
[Name] Yorkshire  
 

In lawful possession of Thomas Skelton by his attorney William Chichester

 
T71/415 528-530