Tobago Proprietors File
Year-by-year tracking of estate proprietors on Tobago plantations from emancipation to absentee re-acquisition, 1834 to 1860.
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The file is organised year by year and estate by estate rather than family by family, on the basis that property is the more stable unit across this period.
Absentee re-acquisition is the part of the record most often glossed over in family histories. The file gives it the same weight as the original ownership.
Entries are added only when at least two independent sources agree on the year of transfer.