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Rosalie

Dominica

Estate Details

Associated People (10)

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
- 1809 [EY] → Owner
John Robinson of Dominica
1775 [SY] - 1775 [EY] → Mortgage Holder
Elizabeth Noel
1775 [SY] - 1775 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Elizabeth Dutens
1775 [SY] - 1775 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Peregrine Furye
1775 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Jacob Kirkman

Buckinghamshire Archives D-D/18/27 Title: Declaration of Trust Description: (i) Thomas Goostrey of St. James's Westminster, gentleman. (ii) Elizabeth Dutens of Leicester Square, parish of St. Ann, Westminster, widow, Elizabeth Noel of Cavendish Square, St. Marylebone, widow; John Dashwood King of Halton, esquire, Peregrine Furye of parish of St. George, Hanover Square, esquire, Jacob Kirkman of parish of St. James, harpsicord maker. Declaration by i that sum of £7000 in mortgage of Rosali Plantation in parish of St. David, Dominica belonged to ii. Date: 9th September, 1775

1775 [EA] - 1775 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Sir John Dashwood King 3rd bart.
1776 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Joint owner
William Stuart of Dominica
1776 [EA] - 1776 [LA] → Joint owner
Charles O'Hara
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Alexander Robinson

Shown as joint owner in the Slave Registers. He and four brothers were legatees under his uncle John Robinson's will, in which capacity he claimed the slave compensation in the 1830s.

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Elizabeth Metcalfe

Associated Claims (1)

Dominica 581A & B (Rosalie)
£3,488 6S 3D

Estate Information (8)

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1775
[Name] Rosali [sic]  
 

Buckinghamshire Archives, D-D/18/27 Title: Declaration of Trust Description:
(i) Thomas Goostrey of St. James's Westminster, gentleman; (ii) Elizabeth Dutens of Leicester Square, parish of St. Ann, Westminster, widow, Elizabeth Noel of Cavendish Square, St. Marylebone, widow; John Dashwood King of Halton, esquire, Peregrine Furye of parish of St. George, Hanover Square, esquire, Jacob Kirkman of parish of St. James, harpsicord maker. Declaration by i that sum of £7000 in mortgage of Rosali Plantation in parish of St. David, Dominica belonged to ii. Date: 9th September, 1775

1776
[Name] Rosalij or Rosalie  
 

The estate was shown as owned by Charles O'Harra [sic], Lt Gov. William Stuart, James Clarke, Rob. and Phill. Browne in 1776: 'Isaac Werden’s A Plan of the Rosalij Compy. Estates, the Property of His Excelly. Charles O’Harra, the Honble. Leiut. Gov. Will. Stuart, James Clarke & Rob. & Phill. Browne, Esqrs., Situated at Rosalij in the Parish of St. David, Dominica, 1776. Ink and watercolor on paper. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division, G5104 .R6A1 1776 .W46 Vault', in Anthony Mullan (2016) 'A Web of Imperial Connections: Surveyors and Planters in Eighteenth-Century Dominica', Terrae Incognitae, 48:2, 183-205, DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2016.1211356

 
Anthony Mullan (2016) A Web of Imperial Connections: Surveyors and Planters in Eighteenth-Century Dominica, Terrae Incognitae, 48:2, 183-205, DOI: 10.1080/00822884.2016.1211356
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot) 96(F) 93(M)  
[Name] Rosalie Estate  
 

Return of W Robinson, owner; returned by Nathaniel Daly, manager. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. David.

 
T71/344 494-501
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot) 102(F) 95(M)  
[Name] Rosalie  
 

Returned by Alex Robinson for himself an unnamed person, joint owners. St. David.

 
T71/355 324
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot) 104(F) 94(M)  
[Name] Rosalie Estate  
 

Return of an unnamed owner; returned by William Wright as manager. St. David.

 
T71/358 242 - 243
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 198(Tot) 102(F) 96(M)  
[Name] Rosalie  
 

Returned by Alexander Robinson, one of the heirs of John Robinson deceased, for all of the heirs, joint owners. St. David.

 
T71/360 212
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 187(Tot) 98(F) 89(M)  
[Name] Rosalie  
 

Returned by Alexr. Robinson, part owner; includes a full return of the enslaved; 12 enslaved people were sold. St. David.

 
T71/362 504 - 510
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot) 90(F) 87(M)  
[Name] Rosalie Estate  
 

Returned by Dugald S. Laidlaw, agent for an unnamed owner. St. David.

 
T71/363 212-213