Timeline for Finding who owned/managed Yorkshire Hall Plantation in Demerara (Guyana) in early 19th century?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:54 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 12, 2016 at 10:06 | comment | added | AndyW | Heh. I almost added "Should you release this long-lost fortune, remember your friends at G&FH.SE!". Still applies, though - thruppence between us would keep a really tiny wolf from the door :). But I was more thinking that the paperwork might better define the estates. | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 10:05 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | I'm about to start looking for a Maria Dorothea Hopkinson. | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 10:05 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | "John Hopkinson bequeathed his estates in Demerara and elsewhere in trust for his nine natural children (seven sons and two daughters), as tenants in common. The will was proved in March 1822. The children were the offspring of two women of colour, one of whom resided in Aigburth Hall and the other in London." | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 10:05 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | Your comment "I would also try to discover the maiden name of Jared's wife Maria Dorothea - if she were a Skelton or Hopkinson, for example, Jared could have inherited the plantation by marriage rather than from William." had me thinking initially that this meant Maria Dorothea had to be British but at ucl.ac.uk/lbs/claim/view/7190 I just read that ... | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 10:00 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | This answer is actually the first time that I have seen William referred to as an attorney but it makes sense - his usual title seems to have been executor. | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 9:58 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | The Chichesters in British Guiana are one of the most interesting stories in my family history. William Chichester seems to have been very wealthy and returned to England. The three sons of his brother Robert (Giles, Jared and Thomas) seem to have all gone and not returned from there (Thomas certainly died there, Jared died on his way back, and I am still trying to find evidence to support/refute my theory that Giles died there). Some other nephews of William (sons of his brother Giles) also went there and he seems to have been the rich uncle of many. | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 9:49 | comment | added | PolyGeo♦ | Your last paragraph is about what we descendants of Jared's other sister Priscilla refer to as the "Chichester fortune". That sum is still in Chancery but it has been at very low interest 0.475- 0.5%. It is not possible to determine the exact value without hiring a solicitor to write up a Court Order and my current estimate of its value is about 3,000 pounds and my calculation is that my share of that is 5-10 pounds. I'm confident that we could claim it but I have put pursuing it on hold as non-economical :-( | |
| Oct 12, 2016 at 9:32 | history | answered | AndyW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |