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Fortescues

Barbados | St Philip

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
1770 [EA] - 1787 [LA] → Owner
Henry Frere

S. D. Smith, Slavery, Family and Gentry Capitalism p. 266 shows Henry Frere buying Fortescues sometime before 1770 and giving it up to the Lascelles in 1787.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager
Joseph Connell

See also Joseph Connell, awardee on Barbados 2577 and Barbados 2578.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Forster Clarke

Associated Claims (2)

Barbados 2769 (Fortescues)
£3,291 11S 4D
Barbados 2770 (Thicket)
£5,810 5S 6D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 384(Tot) 220(F) 164(M)  
 

Return of Joseph Connell, Manager, the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1817 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly.

 
T71/521 430-39
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 401(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1823 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly. Previously 389 enslaved.

 
T71/530 98-100
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 410(Tot)  
[Name] Thicket and Fortescues  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1826 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly. Previously 401 enslaved.

 
T71/536 274-6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 434(Tot)  
[Name] Thicket & Fortescues  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1829 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly.

 
T71/544 282-5
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 440(Tot)  
[Name] Thicket & Fortescues  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Earl of Harewood. NB: the return of 1832 was for the Thicket & Fortescues estates together rather than, as in the compensation records, distinctly.

 
T71/549 284-86
1913
[Name] Thicket and Fortescue  
[Size] 720  
 

Listed in St Philip, property of Earl of Harewood [sic].

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