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Mount St George

Barbados | St George

Estate Details

Associated People (3)

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
1817 [EA] - 1817 [LA] → Manager
William Somerville
1820 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Attorney
Forster Clarke

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3817 (Mount St George)
£3,835 6S 5D

Estate Information (6)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 133(Tot) 76(F) 57(M)  
 

Return of William Somerville, Manager, the property of the Earl of Harewood to whom there is no legal representative. Among the enslaved there were 94 in agricultural work including 75 field workers and 19 others (including 1 sugar boiler and 1 distiller). There were also 7 tradesmen, 9 domestic workers and 2 others (1 absent and 1 boatswain). There were also 21 children. 53 of the field workers were women, 22 men.

 
T71/520 720-23
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 144(Tot)  
[Name] Mount  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of the Earl of Harewood. Previous return showed 145 enslaved.

 
T71/531 63
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 176(Tot)  
[Name] Mount  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood. Previous return showed 144 enslaved. Changes since 1823:
Births: 17; Received by deed of Exchange from Jas. Edw. Spencer (f[ree] m[ulatto]?): 9; Received by deed of Exchange from Richard Harding: 4; Removed from the Thicket & Fortescue's: 15; Removed from the Belle Plantation: 6; Deaths: 8; Conveyed by deed of Exchange to Jas. Edw. Spencer: 7; Conveyed by deed of Exchange to Richard Harding: 3; "Absent many years" [Andrew, aged 34]: 1.

 
T71/535 315-16
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 170(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.

 
T71/543 41-2
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 177(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of Forster Clarke, Attorney, the property of Henry Lascelles, 2nd Earl of Harewood.
It's assumed that this relates to the Mount St George estate and the claim, Barbados 3817 (Mount St George).

 
T71/550 54-5
1913
[Name] Mount  
[Size] 287  
 

Listed in St George, property of Earl Harewood.

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