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Fairfield

Barbados | St Philip

Estate Details

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
1825 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Joseph Gittens
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Bryan Taylor Young

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2956 (Fairfield)
£1,701 2S 10D

Notes

According to Hughes-Queree, the Fairfield estate was owned by Joseph Gittens by 1825 and was then owned by Bryan T. Young until 1846-50.

Sources

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

Estate Information (8)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 28(Tot) 14(F) 14(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph Gittens, his own property.

 
T71/521 418
1820
[Number of enslaved people] 230(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Joseph Gittens, his own property. Note that between 1817 and 1820 Gittens expanded his slave-owning considerably through purchases: Purchased of the Estate of John Sheafe, deceased: 73 (includes 6 deaths); Purchased of the Estate of Arthur Oughterson, deceased: 40; Gift of Christian Rose: 11; Purchased of the Estate of John Morris, deceased: 7; Purchased of Ann Bell Devin(?): 5; Purchased of George T. King: 1; Purchased of Provost Marshal's sale: 1; Purchased of Wm. Hurst: 1. But NB as well that 40 of the enslaved had been registered in 1817 as the joint property of Joseph and Joshua Gittens. (The 40 included 3 who died between 1817 and 1820). See also the returns for BA734 Rices plantation in St Philip.

 
T71/525 459-65
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 219(Tot)  
 

Return of Joseph Gittens, his own property. Previously 230 enslaved.

 
T71/530 86-7
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 24(Tot)  
 

Return of Bryan Taylor Young, his own property. Previously 19 enslaved.

Note that Young filed a return of 78 enslaved for Fairfield, St Philip. That showed a previous return of 24.

 
T71/535 260
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 84(Tot)  
 

Return of Joseph Gittens, his own property. Previously 219 enslaved.135 were sold in Chancery to Joseph Connell; there were also 7 births and 7 deaths. See also Connell's return for Oughterson's. NB too that 58 enslaved were subsequently purchased in the Court of Chancery, the property of Joseph Gittens, by Bryan Taylor Young: see T71/544, pp. 346-8 - Young's return for Fairfield, St Philip, 1829.

 
T71/536 253-7
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 78(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Bryan Taylor Young, his own property.
He had previously returned 24 enslaved.* 58 enslaved were then purchased in the Court of Chancery, the property of Joseph Gittens; there were also 3 births and 7 deaths.
* Young had filed a return of 24 enslaved in St Michael rather than St Philip. See separate entry. See also return for BA12973 Unknown, estate, St Philip. T71/536, pp. 253-7.

 
T71/544 346-8
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 79(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Bryan Taylor Young, his own property.

 
T71/549 342
1913
[Name] Fairfield  
[Size] 92  
 

Listed in St Philip, property of Walcott.

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