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Rising Sun

Barbados | Christ Church

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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
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Thomas Le Gall
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Residuary Devisee
Margaret Matthews Cox (née Le Gall)

Described as one of the Residuary Devisees.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3230 (Rising Sun)
£1,293 6S 8D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot) 39(F) 51(M)  
 

Return of Thomas Le Gall, his own property.

 
T71/521 160-62
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 100(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Thomas Le Gall, his own property. Previously 97 enslaved. Almost certainly this refers to the Rising Sun plantation.

 
T71/529 725
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 116(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Thomas Le Gall, his own property. Previously 100 enslaved. Almost certainly this refers to the Rising Sun plantation.

 
T71/536 110
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Margaret M. Cox, Residuary Devisee, the property of the estate of the late Thomas Le Gall. Almost certainly this refers to the Rising Sun plantation.

Although the net number of enslaved in 1829 and 1832 were very similar, there had been a number of significant events leading up to 1829:

Previously: 116; Births: 9; Devised to Hannah B. Le Gall: 12; devised to Elizabeth Le Gall: 17; devised to Angel F. Harding, 2; devised to Mary Mallony: 2; devised to Mary B. Harding: 5; devised to Mary F. Harding: 2; deaths: 2. Net number of enslaved: 83.

 
T71/544 126-7
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 81(Tot)  
 

Return of Margaret M. Cox, Residuary Devisee, the property of the estate of the late Thomas Le Gall.

 
T71/549 117