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Sir Wastel Brisco 2nd Bart.

Profile & Legacies Summary

1778 - 1^st Oct 1862

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Son of Sir John Brisco 1st bart., and Caroline Alicia Fleming, daughter of Gilbert Fane Fleming and grand-daughter of Gilbert Fleming, Deputy Governor of the Leewards.

Married Sarah Lester Ladbrooke at St Marylebone 18/11/1806; divorced in a spectacular conflict in the late 1810s; will of Sir Wastel Brisco of Crofton Hall in the parish of Thursby Cumberland who died 01/10/1862 proved 13/02/1863 by Sir Robert Brisco of Crofton Hall the son the sole executor, personal estate under 拢14000.
Sir Wastel Brisco inherited among other property on St Kitts Shadwell Great House, which is extant.

Sources

George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K., Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), Vol. V, p. 223.

Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database online]; National Probate Calendar 1863.
Heritage Sites of St Kitts [accessed 26/04/2011].

Further Information

Absentee?

British/Irish

Name in compensation records

Sir Wastel Briscoe

Spouse

Sarah Lester Ladbrooke

Children

Robert (1808-1884), Hylton (1810-1896), Wastel (1812-1835)

Wealth at death

£14,000

University

Oxford (Christ Church) [1797-1800 ]

Legal Education

Inner Temple (12/02/1801); Lincoln's Inn (19/11/1801) [1801 ]

Associated Claims (4)

Associated Estates (4)

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

1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Owner

Flemings Salt Pond [ St Kitts | St George Basseterre ]

1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner

Grange [ St Kitts | St Mary Cayon ]

1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Owner

Priddies Salt Pond [ St Kitts | St George Basseterre ]

1825 [EA] - 1835 [LA] → Joint owner

Shadwell Park & Westhope Estate [ St Kitts | St George Basseterre ]

Legacies Summary

Physical (1)

Country house

Orton Park (originally Hylton Castle)

Details

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Orton Park, originally Hylton Castle, built in the 1830s by Sir Wastel Brisco for his son Hylton. Mid 19th additions. Grade II; at on point, a County Council Home, but sold c. 2011....