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Mellowes

Barbados | St Joseph

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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] - 1827 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Lowe
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
John Wood junior

Given only as John Wood

1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Other
James Dottin Maycock
1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Sarah Scott Maycock (née Lowe)

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3984 (Mellowes)
£3,369 5S 4D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 66(Tot) 42(F) 24(M)  
 

Return of Joseph Lowe, his own property.

 
T71/521 762-3
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
 

Return of James Holder Alleyne, Attorney, the property of Joseph Lowe. Previously 67 enslaved. Changes in the enslaved numbers since 1820: births: 10; purchased of John F. Alleyne: 51; deaths: 11. See also entries for John Forster Alleyne.

 
T71/530 327-9
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 117(Tot)  
 

Return of Joseph Lowe, his own property. Previously 117 enslaved.

 
T71/537 118-19
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 142(Tot)  
 

Return of Jno. Wood, capacity not specified, of the property of Joseph Lowe, deceased. 118 enslaved were gifted to Sarah Scott Maycock. (pp. 263-5). The return from John Wood, Attorney, of the property of Sarah Maycock which follows (pp. 266-70) shows the gift from Joseph Lowe and some other transactions, including 21 enslaved purchased from the Rev. John A. Gittens.

 
T71/543 263-70
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 138(Tot)  
 

Return by James D. Maycock in an unspecified capacity of the property of Sarah Maycock.

 
T71/550 278
1913
[Name] Mellowes  
[Size] 250  
 

Listed in St Joseph, property of Haynes.

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