Its owners and some historical connections - Lackham Countryside ...

The Manor of Alderton 3 rd edition
It is interesting that in the will Mr Bortherson doesn’t mention any children but
he does leave a considerable amount of money to his two nieces, it would appear
that the two young females mentioned in the Hair Powder tax may not have
been daughters after all.
St Christopher here is the West Indian island, not the valley north of Bath and
Lewis Brotherson is named as a “Planter, St Kitts” 360 in the West Indies in the
correspondence archives of the Glasgow company of Houston, Alexander and Co
361 sometime between 1776 and 1799 362 .
Lewis B Verchild, the nephew, was actually Lewis Brotherson Verchild, who was
the rector of St Anne’s Church 363 Sandy Point, on St Kitts, between 1810 and
his death in 1818. He was the first son and heir of James George Verchild (and,
presumably, one of Lewis Brotherson’s sisters). Lewis Verchild was educated at
360 ie he owned a plantation
361 Founded by Alexander Houston. In 1783 his sons Andrew and Robert Houston were
partners in the firm, as were William Macdowall, MP, LL and his brother the Provost,
Robert Macdowall [http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/stecit/stecit14060.htm]
362 Ingram, ENK (2000) Manuscript Sources for the History of the West Indies
section Houston, Alexander and Co Glasgow letterbooks and accounts 1776-1806 p475
The University of the West Indies Press.
The 1799 upper limit comes from the fact that is the date of Brotherson’s will.
363 Oliver, V L (originally 1927, edition consulted 1993 by The Borgo Press) The
Monumental Inscriptions of the British West Indies section Monumental Inscriptions
of St Kitts p168
“St Anne’s is one of the original English parishes and contains the town of Sandy Point
situated on a bay and guarded by Fort Charles (now used, I think, as a leper asylum).
The great rock fortress of Brimstone Hill, 750 feet above sea level, is also about a
mile off, and when it was fully garrisoned, many of the officers resided in the adjacent
town.
By Act of Legislature, the inhabitants were allowed to erect houses within the
fortification, to which their families could rsort in times of invasion.
The Church is of the usual plain type, with a Tower at the west end. It stands on rising
ground, close to the sea, facing St Eustatius, and is surrounded by a large churchyard.”
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