UCL

Douglas & Ravenscroft

Antigua | St Mary | Old Road

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
- 1753 [EY] → Owner
Henry Douglas

Inferred by LBS to have been the estate left by Henry Douglas in 1753.

1753 [SY] - 1778 [LA] → Owner
Mary Mcnemara formerly King (née Douglas)
1778 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Sir James Douglas Bart. MP for Orkney
1778 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Tenant-in-tail or Remainderman
Sir George Douglas Bart.
1787 [EA] - 1821 [LA] → Owner
Sir George Douglas Bart.

Notes

The William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan holds a map of 1787 of the Douglas & Ravenscroft estate in Old Road division St Mary parish of Admiral Sir James Douglas. LBS has inferred this estate to have been the estate left by Henry Douglas (q.v.) to his daughter Mary Mcnemara nee Douglas formerly King who in turn entailed it to Sir James Douglas (q.v.) and the latter's son Sir George Douglas (q.v.). It appears that Sir George Douglas first leased and then sold the enslaved people to Robert Farquhar c. 1821.

Sources

“Plan of the estates of Admiral Sr. Jas. Douglas bart. called Douglas & Ravenscroft, and the estate of Robert Harvey esqr. situated in Old Road Division and Parish of St. Mary in Antigua : Surveyed in 1787 / by John Killian surveyor general..” https://quod.lib.umich.edu/w/wcl1ic/x-8694/wcl008765. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed: June 08, 2021.