William Gibbes Alleyne I

Profile & Legacies Summary

1738 - 1783

Biography

Slave-owner on Barbados, dying there in 1783. He confirmed to his [second] wife his Spring estate which he had settled on her on their marriage, as well as the Black Rock estate and the enslaved people for life and then her to dispose of [i.e. bequeath] it to whichever of 'my family' she saw fit.

Sources

Brandow, Genealogies of Barbados Families: From Caribbeana and the Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society pp. 51-2, which gives a precis of his will.

Further Information

Spouse

(1) Mercy Dottin (2) Elizabeth Lane

Associated Estates (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

1783 [EA] - 1783 [LA] → Previous owner

Lakes [ Barbados | St Andrew ]

This is a very tentative association, based only on a suggestion in Hughes-Queree, and not verified by LBS to date.

- 1783 [EY] → Owner

Spring [ Barbados | St James ]

It appears that the Spring estate settled by William Gibbes Alleyne I on his wife Elizabeth and confirmed in his will was the Spring estate in St James (rather than the Spring estate in St Thomas)