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Mount Hellaby or Hillaby

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
- 1701 [EY] → Owner
Ralph Fretwell
- 1752 [LA] → Owner
William Holder

Tentatively identified as the sam estate as 'Hellaby' left by William Holder to his son William Thorpe Holder under his will of 1752 (proved 1753).

1753 [EA] - → Heir
William Thorpe Holder

Tentatively identified as the same estate as 'Hellaby' left by William Holder to his son William Thorpe Holder under his will of 1752 (proved 1753).

1817 [EA] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
The Hon. Richard Skinner
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
William Hinds
1827 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
William Hinds

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2218 (Mount Hellaby)
£3,122 12S 8D

Notes

Note that the estate was placed in both St Thomas and St Andrew in the inventory of 1827.

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 105(Tot) 55(F) 50(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Richard Skinner, his own property.

 
T71/522 221-24
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Richard Skinner, his own property. Previously 114 enslaved. Skinner purchased 34 enslaved people from John Higginson. There were also 17 births and 16 deaths.

 
T71/532 173-75
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] Hillaby  
 

Return of William Hinds, Attorney, the property of Richard Skinner.

 
T71/538 106
1827
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot) 84(F) 63(M)  
[Name] Mount Hillaby  
[Size] 292  
 

Inventory of Hon. Richard Skinner. Executor: William Hinds. Dated: 13 January 1827.
Total enslaved: Men: 63, Women: 84, Boys: 0, Girls: 0.
Inventory also included: Horses: 5, Cattle: 74, Sheep: 5, Hogs: 4.
Total estate value: £26,283 0 0d.
Note that the combined value of Mount Hillaby and the Stepney estate (q.v.) was: £59,796.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Inventories
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
[Name] Hollaby  
 

Return of William Hinds, Executor, the property of the Estate of Richard Skinner, deceased.

 
T71/542 76
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 141(Tot)  
 

Return of William Hinds, Executor, the property of the Estate of Richard Skinner, deceased.

 
T71/551 97
1913
[Name] Hilloby  
[Size] 271  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Hinkson et al.

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