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Charnocks

Barbados | Christ Church

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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
1721 [EA] - 1721 [LA] → Other
Col. Benjamin Charnock

In 1721 Benjamin Charnock reportedly conveyed Charnocks in trust, presumably to settle debts accrued by the estate. This Benjamin Charnock was likely to have been the father or uncle of Col. Benjamin Charnock.

1816 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Previous owner
Samuel Estwick II

Samuel Estwick was shown by Hughes-Queree as owner by 1816 and dead by 1825. To date no Samuel Estwick has yet been traced in the period, and it appears that this estate was the same as Cooper's Hill and had belonged to Samuel Estwick II (d. 1797).

1816 [EA] - 1825 [LA] → Owner
Samuel Estwick

Samuel Estwick was shown by Hughes-Queree as owner by 1816 and dead by 1825. To date no Samuel Estwick has yet been traced in the period, and it appears that this estate was the same as Cooper's Hill and had belonged to Samuel Estwick II (d. 1797).

1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Richard Estwick
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Joshua Mayers Gittens junior

The entry in the Barbados Slave Register 1832 notes [confusingly]: "Registered 1829 by the Reverend John H. Gittens as Attorney of Samuel Estwick since deceased."

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3207 (Charnocks)
£3,058 10S 11D

Notes

See also the returns for 'Unknown, possibly Cooper's Hill', with which the Estwick family associated. LBS has tentatively concluded that Charnocks and Cooper's Hill were the same estate. Charnock's was originally established on land owned by Richard Seawell, 1674-1680. By 1721 Benjamin Charnock of Christ Church conveyed in trust to the Hon. John Sandford of St. Michael and Hon. Henry Evans of St. Philip a plantation of 116 acres in Christ Church, which had been bought by his father from Elizabeth Seawell, widow.

Sources

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

Estate Information (4)

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1758
[Number of enslaved people] 126(Tot) 69(F) 57(M)  
 

Figures from a list of whites and blacks in Christ Church, c.1758. The exact date of the list is not given; but internal evidence places it in or soon after 1758. The figures were given as 4 whites, and blacks as: men: 40; women: 44; boys: 17; girls: 25. [It is not clear why only 4 whites were given nor if the figure for blacks was comprehensive.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/4
1816
 

According to Hughes-Queree, 'By 1816 (possibly earlier) Samuel Estwick was the owner and was so until his death in 1825. (He was listed as the deceased owner on the Barrallier map of 1825.)' However, it appears that the Samuel Estwick who owned Charnocks was the Samuel Estwick who died in 1797.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 157(Tot)  
 

Return of Joshua Mayers Gittens junior, Attorney, the property of Richard Estwick.

 
T71/549 71-2
1913
[Name] Charnocks  
[Size] 220  
 

Listed in Christ Church, property of Baeza.

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