UCL

Unknown, possibly Cooper's Hill

Barbados | Christ Church

Estate Details

Associated People (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
Previous owner
Samuel Estwick II

In his will of 1797, Samuel Estwick II left an estate called Cooper's Hill to his brother Henry.

1797 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Heir
Henry Estwick
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
Joshua Mayers Gittens

Shown as Joshua Gittens and inferred by LBS to be Joshua Mayers Gittens.

1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
Reverend John Hamlet Gittens

Notes

[No name given.] Samuel Estwick II had bequeathed an estate called Cooper's Hill in his will of 1797, which might be this unnamed estate from the 1827 and 1831 Slave Registers. LBS has tentatively concluded that Charnocks and Cooper's Hill were the same estate.

Estate Information (4)

What is this?

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 63(F) 58(M)  
 

Return of Joshua Gittens, Attorney to the Trustees, the property of Samuel Estwick, deceased.

 
T71/521 99-102
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 134(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John H. Gittens, Attorney to the Executor [not named] of the property of the estate of Samuel Estwick, deceased. Previously 130 enslaved.

 
T71/529 694
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
 

Return of The Honorable and Reverend John H. Gittens, Attorney, the property of Samuel Estwick, deceased. Gittens was 'Attorney to the Executors'.
Previously 134.
NB that this property listed under the St Michael parish in 1826 rather than in Christ Church, as in 1829.

 
T71/534 188
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
 

Return of J. H. Gittens, Attorney, of the property of the estate of Samuel Estwick, deceased.

 
T71/544 79-80