UCL

Five Islands, St John

Antigua

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
- 1850 [EY] → Owner
Sir William Lewis George Thomas 4th Bart.
- 1834 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Marmaduke Robinson
- 1779 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Edward Otto Bayer or Baijer

Tentative association only

- 1774 [EY] → Owner
Sir George Thomas 1st Bart.

Associated by R.B. Sheridan as one of the Antiguan estates owned by Sir George Thomas bart., Sheridan, Richard B. "Letters from a Sugar Plantation in Antigua, 1739-1758." Agricultural History 31, no. 3 (1957): 3-23 [at p. 3]. Accessed September 22, 2020. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3740654.

1850 [SY] - 1856 [EY] → Previous owner
Sir William Lewis George Thomas 4th Bart.

Sold by the trustees of Sir William George Lewis Thomas's estate in 1856, after his death in 1850.

1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Attorney
John Billinghurst

Associated Claims (1)

Antigua 1044 (Five Islands, St John)
£3,589 15S 1D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 229(Tot)  
[Name] Five Islands  
 

John Billinghurst attorney of Sir George Thomas bart., Five Islands proprietor

 
T71/245 647-651
1821
[Number of enslaved people] 221(Tot)  
[Name] None given  
 

John Billinghurst atty of George Thomas Thomas [sic] prop. However, in the margin Billinghurst is shown as attorney to Sir George Thomas bart., and the number of the enslaved is consistent with the Five Islands estates of Sir George Thomas in the immediately previous and subsequent Registrations of 1817 and 1824: this is thus inferred to be Five Islands.

 
T71/246 41-46
1824
[Number of enslaved people] 216(Tot)  
[Name] Five Islands  
 

John Billinghurst attorney of Sir George Thomas bart proprietor Five Islands

 
T71/248 47-51
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
[Name] Five Islands  
 

John Billinghurst attorney of Sir George Thomas proprietor Five Islands.

 
T71/49 710-714
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 242(Tot)  
[Name] Five Islands  
 

David Cranstoun attorney of Sir George Thomas bart. Five Islands estate.

 
T71/250 835-839