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Lowther

Barbados | Christ Church

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Associated People (5)

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
1756 [SY] - 1802 [EY] → Owner
James Lowther 1st Earl of Lonsdale
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland [Earl of Darlington; Marquess of Cleveland]
1817 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Lord William Powlett [Poulett]
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Attorney
William Grasett
1823 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
William Sharp

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3184 (Lowther)
£4,854 16S 9D

Notes

First established by the Lewis family in 1674. By 1680 there were 214 acres in the ownership of Edmond Lewis. In 1687, his son, Thomas, married Joan Frere. Under his will of 1690 it was bequeathed to Joan. She then married Robert Lowther (1681-1745), governor of Barbados, 1711-1720, who inherited the plantation.

From 1756 the owner was Sir James Lowther.

Sources

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

Estate Information (7)

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1758
[Number of enslaved people] 118(Tot) 50(F) 68(M)  
 

Figures from a list of whites and blacks in Christ Church, c.1758. The exact date of the list is not given; but internal evidence places it in or soon after 1758. The figures were given as 4 whites, and blacks as: men: 47; women: 32; boys: 21; girls: 18. [It is not clear why only 4 whites were given nor if the figure for blacks was comprehensive.]

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/4
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 194(Tot) 116(F) 78(M)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Grasett, Attorney, the joint property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Darlington and the Hon. William Poulett [Powlett].

 
T71/521 84-89
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 203(Tot)  
[Name] Lowthers  
 

Return of William Sharp, Attorney, the joint property of William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of of Cleveland and Lord William Powlett. Note that in the 1823 and 1826 Registers the owners are given as the Earl of Darlington [i.e. Cleveland] and the Hon. William H. Powlett. Previous return showed 203 enslaved.

 
T71/530 166-67
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 208(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of William Sharp, Attorney, the joint property of William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of of Cleveland and Lord William Powlett. Note that in the 1826 Register the owners are given as the Earl of Darlington [i.e. Cleveland] and the Hon. William H. Powlett.
Previous return showed 203 enslaved.

 
T71/536 135-6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 215(Tot)  
 

Return of William Sharp, Attorney, the joint property of William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of of Cleveland and Lord William Powlett.

 
T71/544 147-8
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 222(Tot)  
 

Return of William Sharp, Attorney, the joint property of William Harry Vane, 1st Duke of of Cleveland and Lord William Powlett.

 
T71/549 137-38
1913
[Name] Lowthers  
[Size] 332  
 

Listed in Christ Church, property of Watson.

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