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Ball's

Barbados | Christ Church

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Associated People (3)

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
- 1816 [EY] → Owner
Jacob Goodridge

Conceivably the seller of Ball's in 1816 and the awardee of a small claim in the 1830s were different men, e.g. father and son or uncle and nephew.

1722 [EA] - 1722 [LA] → Other
Frances Holburne formerly Lascelles (née Ball)

Guy Ball, Frances Holburne's father, was owner of Williams [later Ball's] plantation in 1722.

1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Renn Hampden

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3233 (Ball's)
£3,250 16S 1D

Notes

Established by John Williams sometime before 1671. Under his Will of that year, the plantation was bequeathed to his brother, Richard Williams, who owned it until at least 1693. By 1721 it was the ownership of Guy Ball of Christ Church who, in 1722, bequeathed it to his eldest son, Richard Ball. Guy Ball died heavily in debt and much of his estate including enslaved people were sold.

Sources

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

Estate Information (7)

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1816
[Number of enslaved people] 115(Tot)  
[Name] Ball's  
[Size] 160  
 

Jacob Goodridge of St. Michael sold the plantation to Renn Hampden of Christ Church for £28,000 currency. Hampden also bought 74½ acres near Chancery Lane. (It is not clear when Goodridge had bought the estate.)

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 121(Tot) 68(F) 53(M)  
 

Return of Renn Hampden, his own property.

 
T71/521 130-33
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot)  
 

Return of Renn Hampden, his own property. Previously returned: 130 enslaved.

 
T71/529 710
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 140(Tot)  
 

Return of Renn Hampden, his own property. Previously returned: 133 enslaved.

 
T71/536 82-3
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
 

Return of Renn Hampden, his own property.

 
T71/544 106-7
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 147(Tot)  
 

Return of Renn Hampden, his own property.

 
T71/549 88
1913
[Name] Balls  
[Size] 384  
 

Listed in Christ Church, property of Yearwood et al.

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