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Over Hill

Barbados | St Andrew

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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
- 1795 [LA] → Owner
Harrison Walke Esq.
- 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
Harrison Walke Sober
1800 [SY] - 1825 [EY] → Owner
Harrison Walke Sober
1795 [EA] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Walke
1800 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Previous owner
Thomas Walke
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Trustee and Executor
William Carter Thomas
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Edward Thomas

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4598 (Over Hill)
£2,441 0S 4D

Notes

Originally established on land owned by Henry Kellsall, 1674-1680.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1736
 

Robert Bishop, late of Philadelphia, but by 1736 in Barbados, and his wife Margaret Bishop, née Hothersall, sold 2 plantations in St. Andrew to Thomas Harrison. The Bishops owed Harrison £10,000. ‘The value of estates in the Island being of late much fallen’ they then sold the 2 plantations to Harrison for £11,400: (1) Scotia; (2) 59 enslaved people and 129 acres in St Andrew.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1746
 

Under his Will, the Hon. Thomas Harrison bequeathed all real estate to his son, John Harrison.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1756
 

According to Hughes-Queree, under his Will, the Hon. John Harrison bequeathed the plantation to his sister Mary Walke, wife of Thomas Walke of St. Thomas. In turn, Thomas Walke bequeathed the plantation to his son Harrison Walke. In fact in the will of Hon. John Harrison, he bequeathed (1) 9 acres to Harrison Walke; (2) an estate called The River to his nephew Thomas Mienville; and (3) two estates called Ashton Hall and Stroud [?] to Thomas Harper Harrison and then to Harrison Walke.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1795
 

Under his Will Harrison Walke bequeathed the plantation to his brother Thomas Walke.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1800
 

Under his Will Thomas Walke bequeathed Over Hill to his great nephew, Harrison Walke Sober, son of his niece Jennet Sober (née Walke) and her husband Sampson Wood Sober. [It is not clear when Harrison Walke Sober actually became the owner.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 101(Tot) 54(F) 47(M)  
 

Return of William Carter Thomas, Executor and Trustee, the property of Thomas Walke, deceased.

 
T71/522 354-57
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 111(Tot)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney to H. W. Sober, late the property of Thomas Walke, deceased, but now the property of Harrison Walke Sober. Previously 103 enslaved.

 
T71/532 173
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney, of the property of H. W. Sober (deceased).

 
T71/550 347