UCL

Bayford's

St Kitts | St Peter Basseterre

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
- 1761 [EY] → Owner
Richard Rowland of Greenwich

The estate marked Richard Rowland Esq. on the 1753 Samuel Baker map is the same estate as that shown for 'Rowlands Hill of Mrs Margret Bayford deceased' in the 1828 William McMahon map.

1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Previous owner
Margaret Bayford (née Rowland)

Shown as owner in 1828 but dead by that date.

1828 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Trustee
William Wharton Rawlins

Associated Claims (1)

St Kitts 420
£307 15S 8D
Inferred assocation

Estate Information (5)

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1825
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot)  
[Name] Bayford's  
 

28 enslaved people were received from Messrs Smith and Piguenit by order of H H Caines with Bayford's Estate on 7 May 1825.

 
T 71/258 343 - 344
1828
[Name] [no name given]  
[Size] 84  
[Crop] sugar  
 

Listed in St Peter Basseterre as an estate of 84 acres in William McMahon's 1828 map of St Kitts with 72 acres of caneland. Proprietor(s) Mrs Margaret Bayford deceased.

 
William McMahon, A New Topographical Map of the Island of Saint Christopher, West Indies... (1828)
1828
[Number of enslaved people] 26(Tot)  
[Name] Bayford's  
 

Returned by W Wharton Rawlins, trustee for Mrs Bayford, owner. St. Peter, Basseterre

 
T 71/258 343 - 344
1831
[Number of enslaved people] 25(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Mrs Bayford deceased, owner; returned by W Wharton Rawlins, trustee.

 
T 71/259 12
1834
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of the estate of Mrs. Bayford, deceased owner; returned by W Wharton Rawlins, trustee.

 
T 71/260 003 to 004