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L'Esperance

Trinidad | Guapo

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
1834 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Neilson

Notes

Not yet traced in the slave compensation records

Estate Information (7)

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1813
[Number of enslaved people] 51(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return of Louis Hourlier (manager), owned by Madame Minier Hourlier

 
T71/501 363-365
1819
[Number of enslaved people] 47(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Louis Hourlier [sic], manager, for Madame Munier Hourlier.

 
T 71/508 259 v - 260
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 45(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Louis Hourlier, manager, for Widow Munier Hourlier [increase by births].

 
T 71/511 370
1825
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Henry Scott, agent, for Madame Hourlier [increase by births].

 
T 71/513 226
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 46(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Return by Louis Hourlier owner late the property of Ve Hourlier

 
T71/515 1898
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Peter Huerne, agent, for Louis Hourlier, owner.

 
T 71/517 183 v - 184
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 29(Tot)  
[Name] L'Esperance  
[Crop] Sugar  
 

Thomas Neilson, owner, late the property of Louis Hourlier.

 
T 71/519 228 v - 229