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Bird River

Barbados | St Michael

Estate Details

Associated People (2)

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
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Mary Ann Walton (née Ford)

Walton's 1823 return showed that 20 of the enslaved were by right of marriage to Mary Ann Ford.

1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Robert Baron Walton

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 1449
£606 2S 5D

Notes

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

Estate Information (4)

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1823
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Robert Baron Walton, his own property. No previous return. 20 enslaved 'by right of marriage with Mary Ann Ford, registered as the property of Joseph Reed, deceased'. There were also 2 deaths hence total of 18.

 
T71/529 600
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 23(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Baron Walton, his own property. Previously returned: 18 enslaved.

 
T71/535 234
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Baron Walton, his own property.

 
T71/541 261
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 18(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert Baron Walton, his own property.
Probably the claim concerns the same property as returned in 1832 as having 18 enslaved.
See also Thomas (9), Joseph R. (2) and Thomas Henry Walton (2) on p. 242.

 
T71/548 241