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Dukes or Bell'air

Barbados | St Thomas

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
1823 [EA] - → Other
Benjamin Ifill

It is not clear whether it was Benjamin Ifill or Benjamin Ifill senior returning as owner in 1823-1832.

1832 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Benjamin Ifill Senior

It is possible that the person returning in 1832 was Benjamin Ifill the younger rather than Ifill senior.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2214 (Dukes or Bell'air)
£2,512 17S 3D

Notes

Also known as Belle Air.
According to Creole Links, the estate had been owned by the following (with acreage):
1680 Thomas Downes (147 acres)
1721 John Downes
1746 William Duke (172 acres)
1791 Gibbes Walker Jordan (348 acres).

Sources

Creole Links

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 88(Tot) 49(F) 39(M)  
[Name] Dukes  
 

Return of Benjamin Ifill, his own property.

 
T71/522 186-8
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 107(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Benjamin Ifill, his own property. Previously 106 enslaved.

 
T71/531 190
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 87(Tot)  
[Name] Dukes  
 

Return of Benjamin Ifill, his own property. Previously 107 enslaved. 27 of the enslaved were removed to Haggetts, St Andrew.

 
T71/538 85-6
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 90(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Benjamin Ifill, his own property. Previously 87 enslaved.

 
T71/542 50
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 124(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Benjamin Ifill, his own property.

 
T71/551 54-6
1913
[Name] Dukes  
[Size] 181  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Manning and Sealy.

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