Durants

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Associated People (7)

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
- 1790 [LA] → Owner
1790 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Owner
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Heir
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney

If this is the correct Edward Thomas, he was Attorney for a number of Barbadian estates.


Associated Claims (1)

£4,105 4S 10D

Notes

Durants had been in the ownership of the Durant family since at least 1741. It was taken over by Philip Lovell sen. sometime between 1777 and 1790.


Estate Information (7)

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1790
[Size] 134  
 

In 1790 Philip Lovell sen., of Christ Church, sold Durants to Philip Lovell jun., also of Christ Church, Durants plantation for £4,000.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot) 75(F) 64(M)  
 

Return of John R. Phillips, Attorney, the property of Phillip Lovell.

 
T71/521 173-76
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 163(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Phillip Lovell. Previously 155 enslaved.

 
T71/529 730
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 171(Tot)  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Estate of Phillip Lovell, deceased. Previously 163 enslaved.

 
T71/536 111
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 188(Tot)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney, the property of Philip Lovell Phillips.

 
T71/544 133
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 206(Tot)  
 

Return of Edward Thomas, Attorney, the property of Philip Lovell Phillips.

 
T71/549 139-44
1913
[Name] Durants  
[Size] 206  
 

Listed in Christ Church, property of Ward.

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