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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
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Charles Saintjohn [St John] senior
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Nathaniel Thomas Worrell Carrington
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
John Williams Worrell Carrington

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2206 (Content)
£1,538 0S 4D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 40(Tot) 19(F) 21(M)  
 

Return of Charles Saintjohn, his own property.

 
T71/522 219-20
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
 

Return of Charles Saintjohn [St John] senior, his own property. Previously 45 enslaved.

 
T71/531 223
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 50(Tot)  
 

Return of Charles Saintjohn [St John] senior, his own property. Previously 50 enslaved.

 
T71/538 107
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 11(Tot)  
 

Return of Charles Saintjohn [St John] senior, his own property. Previously 50 enslaved. Changes:
Purchased of: John A. Jackman: 16; Ann Hinds: 3; Fran. St John: 7; Mary Phillips: 1; births: 3; sold to Charles St John junior: 15; to John E. Hewitt: 4; John and Nathaniel Carrington: 48; deaths: 2.

 
T71/541 174-6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
 

Return of Nathaniel T. W. Carrington, the joint property of himself and John W. Carrington. No previous return.
NB that in 1832 the Carringtons registered 70 enslaved on the Content estate in St Philip. The relationship between the enslaved in the registrations of 1829 and 1832 is not clear.

 
T71/542 13-14
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
 

Return of Nathaniel T. W. Carrington, the joint property of himself and John W. Carrington. NB that in 1829 the Carringtons registered 71 enslaved on the unknown estate in St Thomas. The relationship between the enslaved in the registrations of 1829 and 1832 is not clear.

 
T71/549 240
1913
[Name] Content  
[Size] 211  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Layne.

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