UCL

Bowrin's Estate or Paradise

Nevis

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
1817 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
William Bowrin
1817 [EA] - 1822 [LA] → Not known
Peter Butler

Peter Butler registered the estate in the 1817 and 1822 registers, but the capacity under which he made the registration is not given.

1825 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Not known
William McPhail

McPhail registered the estate in the1825 registers, but the capacity under which he made the registration is not given.

1828 [EA] - 1833 [LA] → Lessee
Edward Lowe Howe
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
William Bowrin
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Peter Butler Bowrin

Associated Claims (1)

Nevis 130 (Bowrin's Estate)
£3,205 11S 4D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot) 81(F) 107(M)  
[Name] Paradise  
 

Return of William Bowrin, owner; returned by Peter Butler

 
T71/364 22-25
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 195(Tot) 92(F) 103(M)  
[Name] Paradise  
 

Return of William Bowrin, owner; returned by Peter Butler

 
T71/365 179-180
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 193(Tot) 90(F) 103(M)  
[Name] Paradise  
 

Return of William Bowrin Esq., owner; returned by William McPhail

 
T71/366 153
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 189(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise  
 

Return of William Bowrin, owner, under a lease to and in the lawful possession of Edward Lowe Howe

 
T71/367 143-145
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 180(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise  
 

Return of William Bowrin Esq., owner, in the lawful possession of E L Howe

 
T71/368 184-185
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 192(Tot)  
[Name] Paradise  
 

Return of William Bowrin, deceased, owner; returned by Peter Butler; six of the enslaved people listed "had been returned to the estate of Mr Bowrin, they having since the year 1827 been returned as belonging to Mr. Bowrin when he rented the estate to the late Mr. Howe but in the month of April 1833 have again been attached to the estate"

 
T71/369 169-170