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Eldridge

Barbados | Christ Church

Estate Details

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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] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Robert Bowcher Clarke the elder
1823 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
Robert Reece

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3453 (Eldridge)
£2,741 1S 7D

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot) 43(F) 51(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Robert Bowcher Clarke, his own property.

 
T71/521 69-71
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 108(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Robert Reece, Attorney, the property of Robert B. Clarke. Previously 106 enslaved.

 
T71/529 670
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 114(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Robert B. Clarke, his own property. It's assumed that this refers to the Eldridge estate: no estate name was given in the 1826 Barbados Slave Register.
It is possible that the owner was Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke, Robert Bowcher Clarke's son.

 
T71/536 34
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert B. Clarke, his own property. It's assumed that this refers to the Eldridge estate: no estate name was given in the 1829 Barbados Slave Register.
It is possible that the owner was Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke, Robert Bowcher Clarke's son.

 
T71/544 49
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 122(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Robert B. Clarke, his own property. It's assumed that this refers to the Eldridge estate: no estate name was given in the 1832 Barbados Slave Register (nor in the 1829 Register).
It is possible that the owner was Sir Robert Bowcher Clarke, Robert Bowcher Clarke's son.

 
T71/549 38