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Grove Plantation

Barbados | St Philip

Estate Details

Associated People (6)

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 [LA] → Previous owner
Robert Norris
- 1801 [LA] → Executrix
Elizabeth Ward Senhouse (née Wood)

Executrix to her husband, the Hon. William Senhouse, from whom she inherited a life-interest. The estate had belonged to her father Samson Wood. See evolution notes for 1777 and 1801.

1774 [SY] - 1800 [LA] → Owner
William Senhouse
1777 [EA] - 1777 [LA] → Previous owner
Samson Wood
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Executor
Francis Hunte
1826 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Francis Hunte

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3068 (Grove Plantation)
£3,196 8S 5D
It is probable that this was the associated estate and claim.

Estate Information (8)

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1774
[Name] The Grove  
 

Senhouse bought the Grove in St Philip from the estate of his father-in-law for £18,000 on 25/07/1774.

 
Recollections of William Senhouse (1741-1800) which also appears in the Journal of the Barbados Museum Historical Society [copy sent by email, Michael Turnball, 28/07/2018].
1777
[Number of enslaved people] 113(Tot)  
[Size] 219  
 

In 1777 the Executors of Sampson Wood, deceased, sold for £19,200 the Grove plantation to the Hon. William Senhouse, whose wife, Elizabeth Ward Senhouse, was a daughter of Sampson Wood.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1801
[Number of enslaved people] 139(Tot)  
[Size] 229  
 

In 1801 Elizabeth Ward Senhouse, widow of William Senhouse of St. Philip, in accordance with the will of her husband of which she was Executrix, sold by public auction to Robert Norris the Grove plantation. The sale included the enslaved, the land, a dwelling house, boiling house, and mill for £33,007.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 168(Tot) 97(F) 71(M)  
 

Return of Fr. Hunte, Executor, the property of Robert Norris, deceased.

 
T71/521 480-84
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 186(Tot)  
 

Return of Robert [?] Hunte, Executor, the property of the estate of Robert Norris, deceased (in 1816). Previously 177 enslaved. Note that by 1826 (and possibly earlier) the Grove was in the hands of Francis Hunte.

 
T71/530 134-35
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 197(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Francis Hunte, his own property.
No previous return. 208 enslaved inherited at the death of Robert Norris. There were also 22 births and 11 deaths.
See also the return of Robert Hunte, Executor, the property of Robert Norris, deceased: T71/536, pp. 299-304 for the enslaved given up to Francis Hunte.

 
T71/536 277-82
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 150(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Francis Hunte, his own property.
Previous return showed 197. Changes since then:
Births: 18; sold to James H. Clarke: 5; sold to Robert Hunte: 22; 'Emancipated': 2; sold to Henry Bushell: 4; sold to Jno. Thos. Croney: 1; gift to Mary Jane Harding: 4; by deed of gift to Lady Gooding: 5: deaths: 17; gift to Edward F. Hunte (a minor): 3; gift to Dorothy W. Hunte (a minor): 2.

 
T71/544 280-82
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 152(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Francis Hunte, his own property.

 
T71/549 277-78