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Bissex Hill

Barbados | St Joseph

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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
1817 [EA] - → Owner
Joseph Alleyne Payne
1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Richard Haynes

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 3964 (Bissex Hill)
£2,264 6S 1D

Notes

Bissex Hill Great House is extant, as a luxury villa in 4 acres of grounds. See for example https://www.barbados-beaches-plus.com/bissex-plantation.html.

Estate Information (7)

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1816
 

In 1816, Jane Payne, daughter of Joseph Alleyne Payne (who was the son of Rev. William Maynard Payne), married Richard Haynes.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1817
[Number of enslaved people] 97(Tot) 48(F) 49(M)  
[Name] Bisick's Hill  
 

Return of Joseph A. Payne, his own property.

 
T71/521 776-8
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 109(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of Richard Haynes, his own property. No previous return. Purchased of the estate of Joseph A. Payne, deceased: 34; "Gift of Joseph A. Payne, deceased, to my wife [Jane Alleyne Haynes]": 73; births: 3; deaths: 1.

 
T71/530 315-18
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 110(Tot)  
 

Return of Richard Haynes, his own property. Previously 109 enslaved. Purchased of Richard Forster Clarke: 16; births: 7; removed to New Castle: 9; deaths: 13.

 
T71/537 107-9
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 98(Tot)  
 

Return of Richard Haynes, his own property.

 
T71/543 245
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 94(Tot)  
 

Return of Richard Haynes, his own property.

 
T71/550 260
1913
[Name] Bissex Hill  
[Size] 230  
 

Listed in St Joseph, property of Haynes.

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