UCL

Retrench Estate

Trinidad | South Naparima

Estate Details

Associated People (1)

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
1822 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Previous owner
John Blackwood

Associated Claims (1)

Trinidad 1863 (Retrench Estate)
£5,544 1S 7D

Estate Information (6)

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1819
[Number of enslaved people] 102(Tot)  
[Name] Monplaisir and Montapage  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Mon Desir Fabien, manager, for the heirs of Guillaume Renaud, deceased, owners [increase by births].

 
T 71/508 292 v - 293
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
[Name] Retrench, lately Monplaisir and Montapage  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Andrew Johnstone, executor, for the succession of the late John Blackwood, deceased, and formerly the property of the heirs of William Renaud [increase by 4 births, 2 purchases, 1 import].

 
T 71/511 342 v - 343
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
[Name] Retrench  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Messrs Wallen and Neilson, administrators,for the succession of John Blackwood, deceased, [increase by 4 births, 2 purchases, 1 import].

 
T 71/513 294 v
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
[Name] Retrench  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return of Michael O'Meara Morris manager, owned by William Meliver [Metiver?], late the property of the succ. of John Blackwood

 
T71/515 1953-1954
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
[Name] Retrench  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Sebastian Cipriani, for himself and Jules Antoine Cipriani, late the property of W Metiver [increase by 8 births, remainder by purchase].

 
T 71/517 330 v - 333
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] Retrench  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Thomas Morris, manager, for Joseph Wilson Son, Co., owners, late the property of Sebastian Cipriani and Jules Antoine Cipriani [increase by 4 births, 1 return].

 
T 71/519 294 v - 295