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Cane Garden [formerly Wiltshires]

Barbados | St Thomas

Estate Details

Associated People (4)

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
Owner
Edmund Knight

The estate was shown by Hughes-Queree as coming into the possession of Edmund Knight between 1832 and 1834, and being sold by him to William Lucien Warner. The compensation records - which show William Grant Ellis as the awardee - suggest the two transactions for Edmund Knight and William Lucien Warner came later.

Owner
William Lucien Warner

The estate was shown by Hughes-Queree as coming into the possession of Edmund Knight between 1832 and 1834, and being sold by him to William Lucien Warner. The compensation records - which show William Grant Ellis as the awardee - suggest the two transactions for Edmund Knight and William Lucien Warner came later.

1823 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Owner
William Grant Ellis
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Other
John Thomas Ellis

Associated Claims (1)

Barbados 2120
£2,501 4S 3D

Notes

According to Hughes-Queree this was the Cane Garden (rather than Canefield) estate. It was located in St Thomas and St Michael. It seems to have been owned c.1775 by Dr. Ralph Wiltshire.

Sources

Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.

Estate Information (7)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 37(Tot) 20(F) 17(M)  
 

Return of William Grant Ellis, his own property.

 
T71/522 149-50
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 70(Tot)  
[Name] [no name given]  
 

Return of William G. Ellis, his own property. Previously 56 enslaved.

 
T71/531 154-55
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 68(Tot)  
[Name] [No name given]  
 

Return of John Thomas Ellis, capacity not specified, the property of William G. Ellis, an invalid. Previously 70 enslaved. Changes included:
Births: 5; purchased of James William King: 2; purchased of the Hon. Thomas Williams: 67; sold to John Thomas Ellis: 63; manumitted: 1; deaths: 12.

 
T71/538 54-58
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 119(Tot)  
 

Return of William Grant Ellis, his own property. Previously 68 enslaved. Purchases include 19 from George Moe, 15 from Henry Thorpe and 8 from John E. S. Clare and wife.

 
T71/542 27-28
1832
[Number of enslaved people] 120(Tot)  
 

Return of William Grant Ellis, his own property.

 
T71/551 30
1834
[Size] 199  
 

According to Hughes-Queree, at some point between 1832 and 1834 the estate came into the possession of Edmunt [Edmund?] Knight of St. Michael. He then sold it to William Lucien Warner of St. Thomas. The plantation was formerly called Wiltshires. It was sold for £27,000 - £10,000 paid and a mortgage of £17,000.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
1913
[Name] Cane Garden  
[Size] 238  
 

Listed in St Thomas, property of Pile.

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