UCL

Prior Park

Barbados | St James

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
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
Charles Padmore
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
Eyare King

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4464 (Prior Park)
£2,623 11S 1D

Notes

The Court of Chancery sold the Prior Park estate in 1832; Eyare King was a major creditor. Butler, p. 48: the estate was sold again in 1842 to Henry Grannum for £15,000.

Sources

Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995), pp. 48 and 87.

Estate Information (7)

What is this?

1817
[Number of enslaved people] 128(Tot) 75(F) 53(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Charles Padmore, his own property.

 
T71/522 64-8
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Size] 179  
 

In a Levy Book list for St James, Barbados, 1822, Padmore was listed as owning 144 enslaved and 179 acres of land. The name of the estate (or estates) was not given. However, this probably referred to Prior Park.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/7. Levy Book list for St James, Barbados, 1822.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Charles Padmore, his own property. Previously 143 enslaved.

 
T71/531 297
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 166(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Charles Padmore, his own property. Previously 149 enslaved. However, NB that the return for 1826 was in St Thomas (as in 1829) rather than St James (1832) although the returns make clear that the same estate is being referred to.

 
T71/538 96-7
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 167(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Charles Padmore, his own property. However, NB that the return for 1829 was in St Thomas rather than St James although the returns make clear that the same estate is being referred to.

 
T71/542 68-9
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
 

Return of Eyare King, capacity unspecified, the property of Charles Padmore, an invalid. See also the notes on the compensation claim: Eyare King was a major creditor.

 
T71/551 171-2
1913
[Name] Prior Park  
[Size] 207  
 

Listed in St James, property of Skinner.

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