UCL

Antrim Valley

Dominica

Estate Details

Associated People (5)

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] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
John McCorry
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Previous owner
John McCorry
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
John Henry Newman

Purchaser of Antrim Valley c. 1826, for which he paid only £3,000 currency of the £11,000 currency price.

1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
James Matthews
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
Alexander Robinson

Associated Claims (1)

Dominica 285 (Antrim Valley)
£904 18S 0D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 41(Tot) 20(F) 21(M)  
[Name] Antrim Valley Estate  
 

Return of John McCorry, owner. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. St. Paul.

 
T71/339 181-182
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot) 23(F) 20(M)  
[Name] Antrim Valley  
 

Returned by Christ. McCorry, attorney of John McCorry. St. Paul .

 
T71/350 145
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot) 22(F) 18(M)  
[Name] Antrim Valley Estate  
 

Return of John McCorry, owner . St. Paul.

 
T71/358 110 -111
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot) 23(F) 19(M)  
[Name] Antrim Valley  
 

Returned by John Henry Newman, owner; the enslaved were purchased with the estate from Alexander Robinson and James Mathews, executors of John McCorry deceased. St. Paul.

 
T71/359 100-102
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot) 22(F) 18(M)  
[Name] Antrim Valley  
 

Returned by J H Newman, owner; includes a full return of the enslaved. St. Paul.

 
T71/361 198 - 199
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot) 25(F) 18(M)  
[Name] Antrim Valley Estate  
 

Return of Jno. H. Newman, owner. This entry includes the names of enslaved children's mothers. There is another entry for Newman, entered by his surname, on folio 104 for one enslaved person who was on Antrim Valley Estate but had been registered in Roseau in 1829. St. Paul.

 
T71/363 88