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Nichola Town Estate

St Kitts | Christ Church Nichola Town

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
- 1793 [EY] → Owner
William Woodley MP
1793 [SY] - 1810 [EY] → Tenant-for-life
William Woodley Lt-Governor of Berbice

The Nichola Town estate was left in trust for his son William Woodley by William Woodley MP in 1793.

1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Previous owner
William Woodley Lt-Governor of Berbice

William Woodley is described only inconsistently as deceased in the Slave Registers of 1817-1831.

1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Captain William Woodley

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 705
£2,925 4S 2D
Inferred association

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town Estate  
 

Return of the late William Woodley, deceased, owner; returned by Charles Woodley, manager.

 
T 71/253 304-309
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town  
 

Return of William Woodley Esq, deceased, owner; returned by Thomas Myles, manager.

 
T 71/255 125-126
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town  
 

Return of William Woodley Esq, owner; returned by Charles Woodley, manager.

 
T 71/257 426-427
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 335  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in Christ Church, Nichola Town as an estate of 335 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 249 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) William Woodley deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town  
 

Returned by Duncan Robertson, manager for estate of William Woodley Esq, deceased owner. Christ Church, Nichola Town

 
T 71/258 153
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town Estate  
 

Return of William Woodley Esq, owner; returned by Duncan Robertson, attorney.

 
T 71/259 151-152
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 174(Tot)  
[Name] Nichola Town Estate  
 

Return of Capt William Woodley, owner; returned by Duncan Robertson, attorney.

 
T 71/260 172 to 173