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Rowans

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Estate Details

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
1816 [SY] - 1827 [EY] → Owner
Humphrey Jones

Hughes-Queree suggest that Humphrey Jones became the owner in 1816 and remained so until his death in 1827.

1817 [EA] - → Owner
William Williams
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Executor
Elizabeth Jones
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Other
William Henry Hutchinson
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
John Higginson

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3601 A & B (Rowans)
£1,969 2S 6D

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 80(Tot) 44(F) 36(M)  
 

Return of William Williams, his own property. Note that Williams does not otherwise appear as an owner (or other associate) of Rowans. But his return in 1817 clearly states his ownership. There is a little overlap of enslaved names between 1817 and the Register return for 1823. [But NB that the 1823 return listed only increases/decreases - not the full list of enslaved.]

 
T71/520 812-14
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot) 54(F) 44(M)  
[Name] Roans  
 

Return of Humphrey Jones, his own property. Previously 99 enslaved returned. Changes since 1820: Increases: Births: 10; Omitted from 1820 registration: 2; Purchased at Marshals sale, the effects of Jno. Gibbes: 3. Decreases: Deaths: 6; Conveyed by deed to Henry Crichlow in trust for the use of Sarah A C Pierrepont: 5; Sent to Trinidad in the service of Mrs Gibbes: 5.

 
T71/531 69
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot)  
 

Return of Humphrey Jones, his own property. Previously 98 enslaved returned. See also separate Return of William Henry Hutchinson, capacity not specified, the property of Humphrey Jones in 1826.

 
T71/535 329-30
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 71(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William H. Hutchinson, capacity not specified, the property of Eliz. Jones, Executrix. Eliz. Jones an invalid. Eliz. Jones was also separately the owner of 14 enslaved: see return, also filed by Hutchinson, on p. 53.

 
T71/543 52-3
1832
 

Return of Elizabeth Jones, Executrix, the property of the Estate of Humphrey Jones, deceased. Zero return: Recorded here because the previous return had shown 71. The 1832 Register shows that all 71 (37 female; 34 male) were sold to John Higginson.

 
T71/550 58-9
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 85(Tot)  
 

Many of the enslaved purchased from the estate of H. Jones deceased; but others purchased from other owners. Following Higginson's death in December 1834, the compensation award went to Richard Deane as Executor of Higginson. See notes on the claim, Barbados 3601 A & B (Rowans) for further details on the value of Rowans at the point of Higginson's death.

 
T71/550 42-4
1913
[Name] Rowans  
[Size] 165  
 

Listed in St George, property of Packer.

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