Rev. John Holloway Duke

Rev. John Holloway Duke, Rural Dean of Essequibo, owner of enslaved persons in Barbados, some inherited from his mother Elizabeth Ann née Holloway and some in right of his wife Anna Maria née Storey (q.v.).

1. John H. Duke registered 22 enslaved persons in 1829 in Barbados as executor of his late mother Elizabeth Ann Duke. It's likely that this was the Elizabeth Ann Holloway who married William Duke in St Michael, Barbados, 06/10/1803.

2. John Holloway Duke married Anna Maria Storey at Christ Church, Barbados, 19/04/1827. At least two children were born to this couple: Benjamin Thomas (baptised 25/06/1829 at St Michael, Barbados) and Wilhelmina (baptised 11/07/1831 at Christ Church, Barbados). Later censuses reveal two more: Mary A., born in Essequibo c. 1838 and Eliza H., born c. 1839. Another daughter, Emma, married Rev. Joseph Thorlby of Helpingham in Froxfield on 18/04/1854.

3. Identified as Rural Dean of Essequibo in 1838.

4. His widow moved to Froxfield, Hampshire, England, with at least four of her children, where she died in 1881.

T71/896 Barbados claim no. 1662; T71/897 Barbados claim nos. 2337, 2547 and 2717; T71/900 Barbados claim no. 5349.

1. T71/540 p. 180. www.familysearch.org batch no. M51395-3.

2. www.familysearch.org batch nos. M51394-3, C51395-4 and C51394-1. 1861 and 1881 censuses online, see separate entry for Anna Maria Duke. Times 22/04/1854: "On Tuesday, the 18th Inst., at Froxfield, by the Rev. T. Atwood, M.A., vicar, Joseph Thorlby, Esq., of Helpingham, to Emma, second daughter of the late Rev. John Holloway Duke, M.A., rector of Trinity Parish, and Rural Dean of Essequibo, Demerara."

3. House of Commons Papers. Session 26 January - 22 June 1841 (19 vols., London, House of Commons, 1841), Vol. 16, p. 31.

4. See separate entry for Anna Maria Duke née Storey.