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Clement Castle (formerly Sober Castle)

Barbados | St Peter

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Associated People (8)

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
- 1820 [LA] → Previous owner
Hope Elletson Sober
- 1755 [LA] → Owner
John Sober I

In a codicil to his will under which he left his unnamed estate in trust and made his eldest son John his residuary heir, John Sober I provided that his wife could live in his dwelling house called The Castle.

1777 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Owner
John Sober II
1787 [EA] - 1797 [LA] → Owner
Martha Bersheba Sober (née Middleton)
1797 [EA] - 1807 [LA] → Tenant-for-life
Hope Elletson Sober
1820 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Owner
Richard Clement
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
William Sharp

Appears as William Thomas Sharp in 1826.

1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Hampden Clement

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4874 (Clement Castle)
£5,041 5S 4D

Notes

Originally established at Ellis Castle, St Peter, in 1640 owned by the Rev. John Forster (whose daughter Margaret married Benjamin Berringer owner of Nicholas plantation [q.v.] as her 1st husband). The Forster family owned the planation until at least 1693. Between 1713 and 1735 it was owned by the Gibbes family. IN 1735, John Gibbes and his wife, Christian, sold to John Sober I for £10,180 a plantation in St. Peter of 284 acres, with a mansion house, 2 windmills together with 109 enslaved people.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1777
[Number of enslaved people] 200(Tot)  
[Size] 363  
 

Mortgage, John Sober II of Horsby [probably Horsley] Place, Surrey, England, Absentee to Daniel Lascelles and Wm. Darling, business partners of London, England, £9406 sterling secured on The Castle plantation in St. Peter, 363 acres, 200 enslaved. The manager was Michael Nihell.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1787
 

Will of John Sober II: all real estate to his 2nd wife Martha Sober of London, England. Testator has 3 sons, the youngest of whom was Abraham Cumberbatch Sober by 1st wife.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 218(Tot) 114(F) 104(M)  
 

Return of Richard Clement, his own property.

 
T71/522 420-25
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Size] 363  
 

Chancery Court Sale: Wm. Oxley, Master-in-Chancery, sold to Richard Clement of St. Peter The Castle plantation or Sober Castle plantation in St. Peter formerly the property of Hope Ellerton Sober, heir of Martha Sober, 363 acres, 177 enslaved, £31,000, for life only. But note that Clement had already returned as the owner of Clement Castle in 1817.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 220(Tot)  
 

Return of Richard Clement, his own property. Previously 218 enslaved.

 
T71/531 356-58
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 224(Tot)  
 

Return of William Sharp, Attorney, the property of Richard Clement. The returning Attorney was given in the Register as William Thomas Sharp. It may be that either this was William Thomas Sharp, the owner of Brewsters and Claybury estates, or that the William Sharp given here is correct (and may have been the same person as William Thomas).

 
T71/538 225-7
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 228(Tot)  
 

Return of William Sharp, Attorney, the property of Richard Clement, deceased.

 
T71/542 224-6
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 227(Tot)  
 

Return of Hampden Clement, his own property.

 
T71/551 214-15