Trent's

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Associated People (5)

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
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - → Previous owner

Dates of Goodridge's life unknown.

1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Guardian
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney

Goding also acted as Attorney in the compensation claim Barbados 4799.


Associated Claims (1)

£3,155 12S 10D

Notes

NB the Trents estate of the 17th century (then known as Fort or Charles Fort) which was recently the subject of archaeological investigation by Douglas Armstrong and Matthew C. Reilly was in St James, not St Lucy, and has not yet been traced. Douglas Armstrong and Matthew C. Reilly, 'The Archaeology of Settler Farms and Early Settler life in Seventeenth Century Barbados', Slavery & Abolition vol. 35 issue 3 (September 2014) pp. 399-417.


Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 127(Tot) 81(F) 46(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Goodridge, his own property.

 
T71/522 609-12
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Goodridge, his own property. Previously 133 enslaved.

 
T71/532 120
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
 

Return of John Goodridge, his own property. Previously 140 enslaved.

 
T71/537 246-7
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
 

Return of John Gay Goding, Guardian, the property of Mary Anna Goodridge, a minor.

Inherited by the death of John Goodridge: 149 enslaved; births: 12; deaths: 7. Net number of enslaved: 154.

See also return of John G. Goding as Executor to the estate of John Goodridge - which shows the bequeathed to Mary Ann Goodridge: T71/545, pp. 47-51.

 
T71/545 34-8
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 154(Tot)  
 

"Return of J. G. Goding of slaves the property of Hinds Howell late that of Mary Anna Goodridge to whom he is attorney."

 
T71/548 362
1913
[Name] Trents  
[Size] 189  
 

Listed in St Lucy, property of Boyce.

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