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Henry Alleyne

Profile & Legacies Summary

1808 - 1852

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

Henry Alleyne (1808-1852), resident slave-owner on Barbados, brother of Charles Thomas Alleyne (q.v.) and son of John Forster Alleyne.

  1. Will of Henry Alleyne of St James Island of Barbados (made in 1847) proved 16/09/1856. He left his property at Hole Town, including a lumber yard, to his brother Charles Thomas Alleyne from whom he had bought it some years previously, and the interest on £3401 5s 2d in 3 1/4 per cent English stocks to his wife Mary Reeve Alleyne. He instructed his executors to sell his Lancaster estate and invest the proceeds for his wife, and after her death the income from his estate to go to his niece Charlotte Emily Alleyne and then to his brother John Forster Alleyne.

Sources

T71/899 Barbados claim no. 4361 (Mount Standfast) and 4363 (Porters plantation).

  1. PROB 11/2238.

Further Information

Spouse
Mary Reeve James

Associated Claims (2)

Barbados 4361 (Mount Standfast)
£3,361 9s 10d
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Barbados 4363 (Porters plantation)
£4,998 13s 11d
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Associated Estates (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
1840 [EA] - 1856 [LA] → Owner
Lancaster [ Barbados | St James ]

Henry Alleyne bought the estate post-Emancipation and ordered its sale in his will proved in 1856.

1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Mount Standfast [ Barbados | St James ]
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Joint owner
Porters plantation [ Barbados | St James ]

Relationships (3)

Henry Alleyne
Brothers
Charles Thomas Alleyne
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Henry Alleyne
Brothers
James Holder Alleyne
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Henry Alleyne
Son → Father
John Forster Alleyne
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Addresses (1)

Barbados
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