Estridge family papers, 1779-1901

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Summary

Creator:
Estridge family
Abstract:
The Estridge family owned The Hill, Lower Estridge's, and Bramble estates in St. Kitts, West Indies, as early as 1660 and through the nineteenth century. They originally hailed from Wiltshire, England. The collection consists of six volumes of plantation records, mainly account and expense books, as well as a scrapbook compiled by Henry Whatley Estridge collecting clippings from his father, George Estridge, and images of St. Kitts from 1896.
Extent:
3.0 Linear Feet (6 volumes in 5 boxes)
Language:
Materials in English
Collection ID:
RL.11094

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of six plantation volumes: five account books (1779-1827) and one scrapbook compiled by H.W.E. (Henry Whatley Estridge) around 1901.

Biographical / historical:

According to Bernard Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry, Henry Whatley Estridge (of Estridge Estates, St. Kitts, and Minety House, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England) was born in 1837 to George Estridge and Grace Male. Henry had four siblings: Edward (1833-1866), George Taylor (1835-1862), Anne Marin (1834-1840), and Grace Elizabeth (1843-1882).

Henry's father, George, was the third son of Joseph Estridge (1777-1814) and Ann Taylor (1776-1854). In all, Joseph and Ann had eight children: Joseph (d. 1802), Charles (1803-1851), George, Susannah (1806-1807), John (1809-1829), Joseph (1811-1890), and Henry (1812-1852).

Burke traced the family's presence in St. Kitts back at least four generations, to John Estridge (c. 1640-1701), and in 1895 wrote that they had "held the same estates ever since."

Acquisition information:
The Estridge Family Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 1994.
Processing information:

Processed by Sandra Niethardt and Meghan Lyon, Dec. 2015

Arrangement:

Collection is boxed by volume.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Subjects

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Subjects:
Slavery -- West Indies
Plantation owners -- West Indies, British
Format:
Ledgers (account books)
Scrapbooks
Names:
Estridge family
Estridge, George
Estridge, Henry Whatley
Places:
Saint Kitts and Nevis -- History

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[Identification of item], Estridge Family Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.