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Cumings Lodge

British Guiana | Demerara

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Mewburn
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Thomas Mewburn
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Abraham Garnett

Associated Claims (2)

British Guiana 750 (Cumings Lodge)
£856 5S 6D
British Guiana 545 (Cumings Lodge)
£11,834 14S 8D

Estate Information (4)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot) 87(F) 128(M)  
[Name] Cumings Lodge  
 

Registered by Thos Mewburne proprietor.

 
T71/397 C2 555
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 212(Tot) 88(F) 124(M)  
[Name] Cumings Lodge  
 

Th. Mewburn proprietor

 
T71/413 C1
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 207(Tot) 84(F) 123(M)  
[Name] Cumings Lodge  
 

In the lawful possession of Thomas Mewburn [sic] [by his attorney Abraham Garnett]

 
T71/418 2271-2276
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 191(Tot) 83(F) 108(M)  
[Name] Cumings Lodge  
 

Belonging to Cuming Lodge in the lawful possession of T. Mewburn [sic] and Abraham Garnett [by A. Garnett for self and T. Mewburn].

 
T71/429 339-343