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Ayshford

Barbados | St Thomas

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Associated People (5)

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
1776 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Osgood Hanbury I

The specific mortgage has not been traced: commentary in Hughes-Queree suggest that Hanbury and Gosling were mortgagees from 1776.

1776 [EA] - 1796 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
John Asgill Gosling

The specific mortgage has not been traced: commentary in Hughes-Queree suggest that Hanbury and Gosling were mortgagees from 1776.

1816 [EA] - 1816 [LA] → Seller
Joseph Odwin Bayne

Shown by Hughes-Queree, not confirmed by LBS

1817 [EA] - 1828 [LA] → Owner
John Foderingham
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor
Henry Walcott Foderingham

Notes

In 1638 John Ayshford was the owner of more than 10 acres. (He left his property to his brother Anthony in his will proved in 1639: PROB 11/179/449). The land remained in the hands of the Ayshford family until at least 1776.

Not named in the slave registers but listed as Ayshford in the 1825 map.

Sources

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Estate Information (9)

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1776
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Size] 166  
 

Robert Ayshford mortgages to John Prettyjohn (an attorney in Barbados for the firm of Hanbury & Gosling) and others 166 acres in St. Thomas. 63 of the enslaved were born in Barbados, 7 in Africa.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1781
 

Under the Will of Robert Ayshford of St. Thomas, the plantation in St. Thomas to be sold; there was no male heir. A Chancery Suit ensued.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1796
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot)  
[Size] 157  
 

A long series of deeds winding up the affairs of the firm of Hanbury & Gosling among the debtors. The 157 acres were 99 of caneland, 39 of pasture land.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Size] 249  
 

According to Hughes-Queree, at some point Joseph Odwin Bayne, late of St. Thomas but by then of England had acquired Ayshford’s. He sold it to K. [G?] Wiltshire Keyzan [Kayzer?] of St. Thomas for £20,000. [This needs further confirmation.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot) 35(F) 42(M)  
 

Return of John Foderingham, his own property.

 
T71/522 157-8
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of John Foderingham, his own property. Previously 78 enslaved.

 
T71/531 166-67
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 77(Tot)  
 

Return of John Foderingham, his own property. Previously 79 enslaved.

 
T71/538 73
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
 

Return of Henry W. Foderingham, Executor, the property of the Estate of John Foderingham, deceased.

 
T71/542 35
1913
[Name] Ayshford  
[Size] 165  
 

Listed in St Joseph, property of Parris.

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.