UCL

Margaret Ann Bend

Profile & Legacies Summary

1768 - 1841

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

  1. Probably Margaret A Bend, estimated birth year 1768, buried in St Peter, Barbados, 20 March 1841.

  2. Margaret Ann Bend was awarded the compensation for the enslaved people on an estate identified from the 1832 Slave Register as Pleasant Hall in Barbados, but was also as a large scale mortgagee (£22,157), including £12,871 to Sir Reynolds Abel Alleyne, to whom she had sold enslaved people in 1820 and from whom she (re)purchased a number [103] in 1826.


Sources

  1. Barbados Church Records, 1637-1887, FamilySearch.

  2. Kathleen Mary Butler, The Economics of Emancipation: Jamaica and Barbados 1823-1843 (Chapel Hill and London, University of North Carolina Press, 1995) pp. 97-8; Slave Registers Barbados 1820, 1826, 1832.

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 4899 (Pleasant Hall)
£2,922 12s 4d
Awardee
Details

Associated Estates (1)

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] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
Pleasant Hall [ Barbados | St Peter ]