Activity: Tea/talk
Ticketed event: Advance sales only
Date: 25th October 2018
Moray House sits in the centre of Georgetown, in what was once a plantation belonging to Thomas Cuming, a planter from Craigmiln in the parish of Dallas in Moray in Scotland. The area, Cumingsburg, is named after him. Preliminary research suggests that the house was built by the Thompson family (who owned Plantation Perseverance on the Essequibo Coast) in about 1890 as a town house. Since then, the Mc Turk, the Cannon, the Clavier, the Mendonca and finally the de Caires families have lived there, the latter since about the 1950s.