Thanks for that reference. Robert Clarke On 28/06/2010, at 1:24 PM, Tim & Una Anderson wrote: > http://home.golden.net/~marg/bansite/btbiog.html#f1 >> From this website the following: > They dealt in many cargoes, one of which was human slaves. By 1722, Grandfather Thomas Tarleton was delivering slaves to Antigua. Thomas' son John, Banastre's father, became the "Great T," Mayor of Liverpool, and the purchaser of land in the West Indies. (Mount Pleasant Estate in Carriacou,1 Grenada was in the family until 1910.There was also a warehouse in St. Georges, Grenada and another estate in Dominica.) There is record of a slave ship named Banastre, which was lost, and so another Banastre was commissioned. > > Note the superscript '1' after Carriacou. The endnote to which it refers, reads: > 1 According to Adam Tarleton, this is mistakenly transcribed as Curaçao in Liverpool library in the index of Tarleton Papers. -- Marg B. > *************************** > The Caribbean List now has a Resources Page at Historic Antigua and Barbuda http://www.rootsweb.com/~atgwgw/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CARIBBEAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message