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Thorpe's and Oxnard's

Barbados | St James

Estate Details

Associated People (7)

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
Owner
Edward Oxnard

Tentatively inferred by LBS.

1791 [SY] - → Owner
Thomas Hordle
1742 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Owner
James Hackett

The Hughes-Queree Index suggests that James Hackett was associated with the Thorpe's estate from 1742-1791.

1788 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Executor
Dr Robert Walton

It is possible that Dr Robert Walton was different from the one here but note that the biog details on Walton place him in Barbados as well as purchasing land in Tobago. Note too that the inventory gives him as 'Dr Robert Walton the elder'.

1788 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Executor
Thomas Hordle
1788 [EA] - 1788 [LA] → Executor
William John Walton
1825 [EA] - 1850 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Hall

Hughes-Queree give Samuel Hall as the owner in 1825 and then in 1842-50, deceased. This is probably the same Samuel Hall as given here.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4446 (Thorps)
£972 18S 4D

Estate Information (5)

What is this?

1788
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Size] 687  
 

The Inventory was dated 11 August 1788 and referred to Thorpe's and Oxnard's together. The Executors were Dr Robert Walton the elder, Wm. John Walton, Thomas Hordle.
The Estate also included 104 cattle, 26 sheep, 23 hogs. The value of the estate was given as ££22,117 13 9&3/4d. The acreage appears to be correct: that is, 366 acres + other types of land valued at different amounts amounting to a further 321 acres. This was for the two estates combined. There are other animals but indistinct writing.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories
1791
[Number of enslaved people] 153(Tot)  
[Size] 363  
 

According to Hughes-Queree, the Executors of the will of James Hackett, sold Thorpe's and Oxnard's to Thomas Hordle for £24,000. They appear to give a figure of joint acreage as 363 acres and a combined total of 153 enslaved.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1825
 

Appears to become the property of Samuel Hall. [See also separate returns from Samuel Hall.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations and Index of Names.
1913
[Name] Oxnards  
[Size] 156  
 

Listed in St James, property of Waith.

 
Barbados 1913 list from the Hughes-Quere indexes transcribed at https://creolelinks.com/1913-barbados-plantation-owners-names.html.
1913
[Name] Thorpes  
[Size] 87  
 

Listed in St James, property of Haynes.

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