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Hopewell

Barbados | St Thomas

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] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
Nathaniel Gittens
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
William Francis Foderingham
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Executor
Henry Walcott Foderingham
1832 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Other
Alleyne Foderingham

Filed the return in 1832 but otherwise no known connection with the estate.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2097 (Hopewell)
£1,672 1S 11D

Estate Information (9)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 74(Tot) 44(F) 30(M)  
 

Return of Nathaniel Gittens, his own property.

 
T71/522 162-64
1818
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
[Size] 140  
 

Purchased by William Adamson for £16,000.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1820
 

Purchased by George Moe for £25,000.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1822
 

Purchased in Chancery Sale by W. F. Foderingham for £11,300.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 72(Tot)  
 

Return of William Francis Foderingham, his own property. Previously 9 enslaved. Purchased at Marshals Sale late the property of Thomas Sampson and A. Thornborrow: 3; Purchased at Marshals Sale late the property of W. Foderingham: 2; In right of marriage with Susanna Jane Morris: 1; purchased of Robert Haynes: 1; purchased of William Oxley, Master in Chancery, late the property of William Adamson junior: 58: purchased of the Estate of F. Brathwaite, deceased: 2; births: 3. Sold to Frs. Hodgkinson: 1; sold to Eliza. Heathcate: 1; sold to William Adamson junior: 4; death: 1.

 
T71/531 174-6
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 73(Tot)  
 

Return of H. W. Foderingham, Administrator, the property of the Estate of William J. Foderingham, deceased. [Probably William F. rather than J.]

 
T71/538 71-2
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of H. W. Foderingham, Administrator, the property of the Estate of William J. Foderingham, deceased. [Probably William F. rather than J.]

 
T71/542 36
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 83(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Alleyne Foderingham, the property of the Estate of William J. Foderingham. [Probably William F. rather than J.] H. W. Foderingham was the Executor but he was an invalid; the return made by Alleyne Foderingham.

 
T71/551 36-8
1913
[Name] Hopewell  
[Size] 306  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Inniss.

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