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Trafalgar

Trinidad | Chaguanas

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
1813 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
Edwin Gairdner
1825 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Thomas Gibbes
1831 [EA] - 1831 [LA] → Owner
Howard Bovell
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Smith
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Howard Bovell
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
William Bovell

Shown as previous co-owner in 1834 with Howard Bovell, although the estate was shown against Howard Bovell only in 1834.

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1607 (Trafalgar)
£1,620 17S 0D

Estate Information (7)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 36(Tot)  
[Name] Trafalgar  
 

Sugar plantation owned by Hugh Robertson and the heirs or legal representatives of Edward [=Edwin] Gairdner decd. of which the said Hugh Robertson is in possession as part owner and manager.

 
T71/501 25-26
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Name] Trafalgar  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Hugh Robertson, manager, for the heirs of Edwin Gairdner, deceased, the minor children of Lieutenant Colonel Walker, and himself, owners.

 
T 71/508 416 - 416 v
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot)  
[Name] Trafalgar  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Ewin McIntyre, manager, for the heirs or legal representatives of Edwin Gairdner and Hugh Robertson, deceased, and Thomas H Walker and A E Walker, minors.

 
T 71/511 287 v
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 43(Tot)  
[Name] Trafalgar  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Joseph T Gibbes, owner, late the property of the heirs of Edwin Gairdner, deceased and the minor children of Lieutenant Colonel Walker and the late Hugh Robertson [increase by import and 3 births].

 
T 71/513 316 v - 317
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot)  
[Name] Trafalgar  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return of Joseph T Gibbes owner

 
T71/515 1984
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Name] Trafalgar  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John F Miller, manager, for Howard Bovell, owner, late the property of J T Gibbes.

 
T 71/517 259 v - 260
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot)  
[Name] Trafalgar  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

John Smith, manager, for himself and Alexander Smith, owner, late the property of Howard Bovell and William Bovell.

 
T 71/519 325 v - 326