UCL

Robert Stewart

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1773

Biography

Purchaser of Barbados Bay division (St George parish) Lot no. 2 (500 acres), which became Bacolet estate, on 20/05/1765, and probably the Robert Stewart who was one of the Commissioners of land sales in the ceded and neutral islands.

  1. John Burke gives Robert Stewart one of the Commissioners of the ceded islands as the son of John Stewart of Urrard and as dying in Tobago unmarried in 1773.

Sources

  1. John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain (1838) Vol. 4 p. 40 'Stewart of St Fort.'

Associated Estates (2)

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
20/05/1765 [SD] - → Owner
Bacolet [ Tobago | St George ]
12/05/1766 [SD] - 1773 [EY] → Joint owner
Betsey's Hope [ Tobago | St Paul ]