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Valley [Mapps]

Barbados | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (12)

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 [EY] → Owner
John Asgill Gosling

John Asgill Gosling left a plantation [singular] called Valley and Locust Hall in his will, attested in Barbados in 1790 and of which administration was granted in London in 1808 to James Mapp Allen.

- 1757 [LA] → Owner
Henry Peter King
1757 [EA] - → Owner
Mary Mapp (née King)

Inherited the Valley estate from her father, Henry Peter King. Presumably ownership then passed to her husband, Thomas Mapp.

1757 [EA] - → Owner
Thomas Mapp
1794 [EA] - 1794 [LA] → Owner
Susannah Gosling (née Mapp)
1808 [EA] - → Administrator
James Mapp Allen [Alleyne]

John Asgill Gosling left a plantation [singular] called Valley and Locust Hall in his will, attested in Barbados in 1790 and of which administration was granted in London in 1808 to James Mapp Allen.

1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Owner
James Mapp Allen [Alleyne]
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Nathan Lucas
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Mary Frances Ford Jones (née Allen)
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Previous owner
Rev. Henry Allen

Allen deceased by the time of the 1832 Barbados Slave Register.

1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Maria Louisa Roberts (née Allen)

Mary L. Roberts given as Maria L. Roberts in the 1832 Barbados Slave Register.

1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
George Hewitt of St Thomas

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3619 (Valley)
£3,250 16S 0D

Notes

The Valley Appears to have been owned by the Lyne family between 1674 and1715 and the Carter family from 1715 until sometime between 1722 and 1757. NB the possible confusion between the Mapp and Valley estates, most obviously In 1817 when there were two returns for 'Mapps': one in St George, one in St Philip. The St George return was from Nathan Lucas, Attorney, the property of James Mapp Allen; for St Philip it was by J. F. Alleyne for Smith and Allen. It seems likely that the St George return was for the Valley estate: in 1826 the return of Nathan Lucas noted that 153 enslaved were inherited by the death of James Mapp Alleyne, who was, presumably, the same as James Mapp Allen.

Sources

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

Estate Information (9)

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1757
 

1757 Henry Peter King of St. George bequeathed the plantation to his daughter, Mary Mapp, wife of Thomas Mapp. Their daughter and heiress, Susannah, married John Gosling at some point.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1794
[Size] 204  
 

By 1794 Mrs Susannah Gosling, widow, owned Mapps. 204 acres in St George.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1808
 

John Asgill Gosling left a plantation [singular] called Valley and Locust Hall in his will, attested in Barbados in 1790 and of which administration was granted in London in 1808 to James Mapp Allen.

 
PROB 11/1488/201
1816
 

Hughes-Queree's inddex suggests that by 1816 the estate was owned by George Carrington.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot) 82(F) 66(M)  
 

Return of Nathan Lucas, Attorney, the property of James Mapp Allen.

 
T71/520 640-43
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 151(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Nathan Lucas, Attorney, the joint property of Frances F. Jones, Rev. Henry Allen and Mary [Maria] L. Roberts.
No previous return. The 151 enslaved composed of: inherited by the death of James Mapp Alleyne: 153; births: 4; deaths: 6.

 
T71/535 325-9
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 148(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of George Hewitt, Attorney, the joint property of Frances F. Jones, the Rev. Henry Allen and Maria L. Roberts.

 
T71/543 51-2
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 149(Tot)  
 

Return of George Hewitt, Attorney, the joint property of Frances F. Jones, the Rev. Henry Allen decd. and Maria L. Roberts.

 
T71/550 60-1
1913
[Name] Valley  
[Size] 250  
 

Listed in St George, property of Williams.

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