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Bawdens

Barbados | St Andrew

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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
1730 [EA] - 1801 [LA] → Owner
Sir John Gay Alleyne 1st Bart.

Inherited as an infant from his father John Alleyne under the latter's will proved 1730.

1801 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Sir Reynold Abel Alleyne 2nd Bart.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4584 (Bawdens)
£4,233 8S 7D

Notes

In 1650 John Parris of Barbados, merchant, bought 247 acres in St. Andrew and established a plantation called Broomehall. In 1663 Thomas Parris sold 3 plantations, including Broomehall, formerly the property of John Parris, deceased, to George Gospright who then sold them to John Sparke and John Bawden. The latter appears to have owned Broomehall (and possibly the others) in 1680. In 1694 the Hon. Nathaniel Blackiston of St. Andrew and Dame Thomasina Blackiston, his wife (and formerly the widow of Sir Timothy Thornhill deceased) leased 250 acres in St Andrew to Reynold Alleyne of St. Peter for £500 sterling per year for 9 years. By 1722 [will proved 1730] John Alleyne bequeathed the plantation to his son, John Gay Alleyne. In 1754, Bawden’s plantation of 350 acres was leased to Henry Bishop. [It is not clear for how long Henry Bishop, or his family, leased the plantation.]

The plantation remained in the Alleyne family until c.1896.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1801
 

By his will of 1801, Sir John Gay Alleyne, Bt., bequeathed the plantation to his son Reynold Abel Alleyne (who was 11 or 12 at the time of his father's death).

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1816
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Size] 347  
 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot) 105(F) 83(M)  
 

Return of Reynold A. Alleyne, his own property.

 
T71/522 266-71
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 204(Tot)  
 

Return of Sir Reynold A. Alleyne, his own property. Previously 193 enslaved.

 
T71/530 369
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 202(Tot)  
 

Return of Sir Reynold A. Alleyne, his own property. Previously 204 enslaved.

 
T71/537 166-68
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 205(Tot)  
 

Return of Sir Reynold A. Alleyne, his own property.

 
T71/543 303-4
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 196(Tot)  
 

Return of Sir R. A. Alleyne, owner.

 
T71/550 307-8
1913
[Name] Bawdens and River  
[Size] 521  
 

Listed in St Andrew, property of Johnson and Hinkson.

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