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Barbados | St James

Estate Details

Associated People (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
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
Dowding Thornhill
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
Henry Thornhill junior
1829 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Executor
Henry Thornhill junior

Notes

[No name given.]

Estate Information (5)

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1817
[Number of enslaved people] 35(Tot) 18(F) 17(M)  
 

Return of Dowding Thornhill, his own property.

 
T71/522 89
1822
[Number of enslaved people] 31(Tot)  
[Size] 8  
 

In a Levy Book list for St James, Barbados, 1822, Thornhill was listed as owning 31 enslaved and 8 acres of land. The name of the estate (or estates) was not given but it seems likely that it referred to the same property as this one.

 
Barbados Department of Archives. RB9/3/7. Levy Book list for St James, Barbados, 1822.
1823
[Number of enslaved people] 30(Tot)  
 

Return of Dowding Thornhill, his own property. Previously 30 enslaved.

 
T71/531 303
1826
[Number of enslaved people] 19(Tot)  
 

Return of Henry Thornhill jun., the property of Dowding Thornhill. Previously 30 enslaved.

 
T71/538 183
1829
[Number of enslaved people] 11(Tot)  
 

Return of Henry Thornhill jun., Executor, the property of the Estate of Dowding Thornhill, deceased. NB that the previous number shown in the 1829 return was 21 rather than 19; but it seems highly probable that the 2 returns refer to the same estate, not least because this is the only reference to Dowding Thornhill in the 1829 register.

 
T71/542 191