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Ridgeways

Barbados | St Thomas

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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
- 1794 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Joseph Barrow
- 1794 [LA] → Mortgage Holder
Jacob Barrow
1787 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Owner
Gabriel Ford

Last known association probably after 1794.

1817 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Francis Greenidge Bayley
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Not known
Haynes Gibbes Bayley
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
Joseph Bayley

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2191 (Ridgeways)
£1,590 9S 0D
Probably this is the associated claim but see also estate BA10977 (Joseph Bayley).

Estate Information (9)

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1787
 

1787 Will of Gabriel Ford in which he bequeathed a plantation bought from Benjamin Bostock, executor of the will of John Wheeler Ridgeway (1767) to his grandson, Gabriel Ford.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1794
[Size] 102  
 

Gabriel Ford of St. Thomas and his wife Lucy Ford, née Lewis, mortgaged to Jacob Barrow and Joseph Barrow of St. Michael & England, “an Anglo-Barbadian Jewish merchant company similar to the Daniels”, for £3,500 the Ridgeway plantation in St. Thomas & St. James.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 42(Tot) 18(F) 24(M)  
[Name] Downes  
 

Return of Francis Greenidge Bayley, his own property.

 
T71/522 117-18
1819
 

1819 Francis G. Bayley appears to have acquired 40 enslaved people.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 53(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Francis Greenidge Bayley, his own property. Previously 12 enslaved. Purchased of Richard P. Neblett: 39; Purchased of Benony W. Armstrong: 1; births: 3.

 
T71/531 136-7
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 57(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Francis Greenidge Bayley, his own property. Previously 53 enslaved.

 
T71/538 39
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 59(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Haynes Gibbes Bayley, capacity not known, the property of Francis Greenidge Bayley, an invalid.

 
T71/542 4
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph Bayley, Executor, the property of the Estate of Francis Greenidge Bayley, deceased.

 
T71/551 6-7
1913
[Name] Ridgeway  
[Size] 209  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Packer.

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